Frankie Bradshaw:From Concept to Stage
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- Date
- Archive Event
- Time
- 11am - 12.30pm
- Venue
- Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Type
- Masterclass
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Join award-winning stage and costume designer Frankie Bradshaw for a Masterclass on bringing stories to life through design.
With celebrated work across the UK stage, Frankie is known for her striking, multi-textured set and costume design. In this session, she’ll take you behind the scenes of her design process, using case studies from three recent productions: Ballet Shoes (National Theatre), Alterations (National Theatre), and Retrograde (Kiln Theatre and Apollo Theatre).
Frankie will explore how she approaches a new script, collaborates with directors and creative teams, and balances storytelling with aesthetic detail. She’ll share how design choices shape the tone, rhythm and world of a production, and how the visual language of a show evolves from concept to stage.
This Masterclass is ideal for designers, directors, and theatre-makers interested in deepening their understanding of design as a storytelling tool. There will be time at the end for a Q&A with Frankie.
Biography
Frankie Bradshaw is an award-winning designer for theatre, dance and opera. She received the Critics Circle Award in 2025 for her design of Ballet Shoes and Dear Octopus at the National Theatre. She has been nominated twice for Olivier Awards, for Best Set Design for Ballet Shoes in 2025 and for Best Costume Design for Blues for an Alabama Sky in 2023, both at the National Theatre. She won the Best Creative West End Debut at the Stage Debut Awards in 2019 jointly with director Lynette Linton for Sweat at the Gielgud Theatre, and the Off West-End Best Set Design award in 2016.
Her many theatre credits include: Ballet Shoes (Olivier, National Theatre); Alterations, Dear Octopus, Blues for An Alabama Sky (Lyttelton, National Theatre); Barcelona (Duke of York’s Theatre); Macbeth (Wessex Grove / Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington); Sweat (Donmar Warehouse / Gielgud Theatre); Retrograde (Kiln Theatre / Apollo Theatre); Clyde’s, Assembly (Donmar Warehouse); Pins & Needles (Kiln Theatre); Mad House (Ambassador’s Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Sheffield Crucible); Never Have I Ever, Local Hero, The Long Song (Chichester Festival Theatre); Unexpected Twist, Two Trains Running (Royal & Derngate Theatre); House of Ife (Bush Theatre); Hamlet (Dorfman, National Theatre Tour); We Started to Sing (Arcola Theatre); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Leicester Curve / UK Tour); A Christmas Carol, Beauty and the Beast (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Lemon Table (MGC / Wiltshire Creative); Piaf, Skellig (Nottingham Playhouse); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); A Christmas Carol (Theatre Clwyd); Napoli Brooklyn (UK Tour / Park Theatre); Trying It On (UK Tour / RSC / Royal Court); Kiss Me Kate, Jerusalem, Nesting, Robin Hood (Watermill Theatre); Cookies (Theatre Royal Haymarket); On The Exhale (Traverse); Hansel (Salisbury Playhouse).
Opera designs include: ITCH (Opera Holland Park); Macbeth, Idomeneo and Elizabetta (English Touring Opera) and for Dance: Pinocchio (Northern Ballet).
Production and Costume designs for film include The Talent (Second Name Productions).