Russell Craig graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland in 1970 and became resident designer at New Zealand’s Mercury and Downstage theatres.

He won a Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, a British Council travel grant and settled in London in 1974. In 1983 he was selected to represent Britain at the Prague Quadrennial.

As well as designing the sets and costumes for many Opera and Theatre companies throughout the United Kingdom and abroad, Russell is an accomplished prop maker.

Productions:

Opera

‘Alzira’ Buxton Festival, dir. Elijah Moshinsky
‘Macbeth’ Buxton Festival, dir. Elijah Moshinsky
‘Giovanna d’Arco’ Buxton Festival, dir. Elijah Moshinsky
‘Falstaff’ Virginia Opera, dir. Stephen Lawless
‘The Maiden in the Tower, Kashchei the Immortal’ Buxton Festival, dir. Stephen Lawless
‘Clockwork’ ROH Linbury, dir. Tony Graham
‘Tower’ Opera Box, dir. Brendan Wheatley
‘Oberto’ Opera North, dir. John Tomlinson
‘La Boheme’ Wexford Festival, dir. Reto Nickler
‘Il Turco in Italia’ Buxton Festival, dir. Giles Havergal
‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ Scottish Opera, dir. Giles Havergal
‘Gli Equivoci’ Wexford festival, dir Giles Havergal
‘Orphée aux Enfers’ Manheim, dir Giles Havergal
‘Il Seraglio’ WNO/Gelsenkirken, dir. Giles Havergal
‘Barber of Seville’ Vancouver/WNO/Opera North, dir. Giles Havergal
‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ Minnesota/WNO, dir. Giles Havergal
‘Le Comte Ory’ Welsh National Opera, dir. Aiden Lang
‘La Boheme’ Glyndebourne Tour, dir. Aiden Lang
‘Boris Godunov’* Opera North, dir. Ian Judge
‘Lohengrin’* Wiesbaden, dir. Ian Judge
‘Hansel and Gretel’ Grand Theatre Geneva, dir. Robert Carsen
‘A Village Romeo and Juliet’ Opera North, dir. Robert Carsen
‘La Straniera’ Wexford Festival, dir. Robert Carsen
‘Faust’ University College Opera, dir. Robert Carsen
‘HMS Pinafore/Trial by Jury’ D’oyly Carte, dir. Andrew Wicks
‘Oberon’ Scottish Opera/La Fenice, dir. Graham Vick
‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ La Monnaie Bruxelles, dir. Graham Vick
‘Don Pasquale’ Oper Bonn, dir. Graham Vick
‘The Magic Flute’ Opera North, dir. Graham Vick
‘I Gioielli della Madonna’ Wexford Festival, dir. Graham Vick
‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ English National Opera, dir. Graham Vick
‘The Rape of Lucretia’ English National Opera, dir. Graham Vick
‘Cosi fan Tutte’ Opera North, dir. Graham Vick
‘La Bella et la Bestia’ Musica nell Chiostro Batignano, dir. Graham Vick
‘Hedda Gabler’ Scottish Opera, dir Graham Vick
‘Savitri/Fanny Robin’ Scottish Opera, dir. Graham Vick
‘The Coronation of Poppea’ Wooburn Festival, dir. Graham Vick
‘Snegourochka’ Royal Academy of Music, dir. Graham Vick
‘La Traviata’ Scottish Opera go round, dir. Graham Vick

‘Guys and Dolls’ Lyceum Edinburgh, dir. Kenny Ireland
‘My Fair Lady’ Minnesota/ Houston, dir. Giles Havergal
‘Showboat’* Opera North/RSC/London Palladium, dir. Ian Judge
‘Bitter Sweet’* Sadlers Wells, dir. Ian Judge
‘The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’ Warwick University, dir. Graham Vick
‘Sweeny Todd’ Newcastle, dir. Ken Hill
‘Annie Get Your Gun’ Mercury Theatre NZ, dir. Anthony Richardson
‘Oh What a Lovely War’ Mercury Theatre NZ, dir. Don Farr

Theatre for

Children

‘Robinson Crusoe’ Chipping Norton,dir. John Terry
‘Robin Hood’ Chipping Norton,dir. Abi Anderson
‘Mother Goose’ Chipping Norton, dir. John Terry
‘Cinderella’ Chipping Norton, dir. John Terry
‘Ali Baba’ Chipping Norton,dir John Terry
‘Beauty and The Beast’ Chipping Norton, dir. John Terry
‘Cinderella’ Unicorn, dir. Tony Graham
‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’ Unicorn/New Vic New York, dir. Tony Graham
‘Merlin the Magnificent’ Regents Park, dir. Tony Graham
‘Granny and the Gorilla’ Regents Park, dir. Tony Graham
‘Sleeping Beauty’ Unicorn/Pleasance, dir. Tony Graham
‘Red Red Shoes’ The Place/ROH Linbury, dir. Tony Graham
‘Beauty and the Beast’ Unicorn, dir. Tony Graham
‘Peter Rabbit’ Unicorn/Tour, dir. Tony Graham
‘Stuart Little’ National Tour, dir. Annie Wood
‘Under One Roof’ Polka, dir. Roman Stefanski
‘Huckleberry Finn’ Greenwich, dir. Matthew Frances
‘Pocohontas’ Royal Court youth theatre, Roxana Silbert
‘The Silver Chair’ Newcastle Playhouse, dir. Ken Hill
‘Moon Mill’ Unicorn, dir. Nick Barter
‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Unicorn, dir. Nicholas Barter
‘Street, Unicorn’ dir. Nicholas Barter
‘The Peace’ Scottish Opera go round, dir. Graham Vick
‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ Mercury Theatre NZ, dir. Don Farr

Theatre

‘Oxygen’ Riverside Studios, dir. Andy Jordan
‘Blithe Spirit’ Salisbury Playhouse, dir. Gareth Armstrong
‘The Seagull’* Central School of Speech and Drama, dir. Grainne Byrne
‘Therese Raquin’ Communicado, dir. Jennifer Black
‘The Anatomist’ Lyceum Edinburgh, dir. Kenny Ireland
‘Private Lives’ Lyceum Edinburgh, dir. Kenny Ireland
‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Lyceum Edinburgh, dir. Kenny Ireland
‘The Recruiting Officer’ Lyceum Edinburgh, dir. Kenny Ireland
‘Lovers’ Lyceum Edinburgh, dir. Kenny Ireland
‘Rebecca’ Lyceum Edinburgh, dir. Phillip Franks
‘The Taming of the Shrew’* Royal Shakespeare Company, dir. Gael Edwards
‘The Rivals’ Manchester Royal Exchange, dir. Braham Murray
‘Henry VIII’* Chichester Festival, dir. Ian Judge
‘Real Dreams’ Royal Shakespeare Company, dir. Ron Daniels
‘Loot’ Watford Palace, dir. Stephen Hollis
‘Rozencrantz and Guildenstern’ Young Vic, dir. Jeremy James Taylor
‘Tom Jones’ Sheffield Crucible, dir. Andrew Wicks
‘Macbeth’ Mercury Theatre NZ, dir. Anthony Richardson
‘Lulu’ Mercury Theatre NZ, dir. Ian Mune
‘Lear’ Mercury Theatre NZ, dir. Ian Mune
‘The Skin of our Teeth’ Mercury Theatre NZ, dir. Don Farr
‘Narrow Road to the Deep North’ Mercury, Downstage Theatre NZ, dir. Ian Mune

*Set Design

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