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Peter Mumford
Peter Mumford originally trained as
a theatre designer as Central School of Art. He then became
a founder member of the mixed media performance group Moving
Being who he continued to work with as a designer and lighting
designer for over ten years.
He has gone on to work throughout the
world designing sets, costumes and lighting for numerous companies
including several of the main European opera houses and dance
companies including Scottish Opera, The Royal Opera, Welsh
National Opera, Munich Opera, Royal Danish Ballet, The Royal
Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, and The Siobhan Davies Dance
Company. He has also worked with the Almeida Theatre, Royal
Court Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, RSC and National Theatre
and many London West End venues. Among the shows he has designed
both sets and lighting for are : Parsifal Welsh National Opera;
Modern Living (choreographer Jonathan Lunn) and Fidelio for
Opera North; Un Ballo in Maschera (Vilinius Festival); Foe
Theatre de Complicite at West Yorkshire Playhouse then London
and European tour; Two-Part Intervention for the Royal Ballet;
Odysseus Thump and Touching Heaven for West Yorkshire Playhouse,
the latter premiered in Tokyo.
Recent work as a lighting designer
includes: Edward II, Carmina Burana, Arthur parts I &
II Birmingham Royal Ballet; The Crucible, Hidden Variables,
A Stranger’s Taste, This House Will Burn Ashley Page/Royal
Ballet; Sounding, Unrest, The Celebrated Soubrette Rambert
Dance Company; Redundant Royal Court; Private Lives Albery
Theatre, London; Iphigenia Abbey Theatre, Dublin; God Only
Knows Vaudeville, London; Medea Queen’s Theatre, London;
Il Corsaro Athens Concert hall; Don Pasquale, Madama Butterfly
Opera Zuid, Holland; The Coronation of Poppea, Falstaff, Die
Soldaten English National Opera; Of Oil and Water, Eighty
Eight Keys Siobhan Davies Dance Company; Irek Mukhamedov and
Dancers Sadler’s Wells; The Dispute & The Critic
Royal Exchange, Manchester; Lautrec Shaftesbury Theatre; I
Laskarina Acropol Theatre, Athens; Eugene Onegin, Madama Butterfly
Opera North; Guilio Cesare Opera De Bordeaux; Edward II Stuttgart
Ballet; The Invention of Love, Stanley, Summerfolk, The Merchant
of Venice, Money, Volpone, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and
Luther Royal National Theatre; Hamlet, Othello, The Ladies,
Goodnight Children Everywhere Royal Shakespeare Company; A
long Day’s Journey Into Night, An Ideal Husband, Oliver
Twist, Therese Raquin Gate Theatre, Dublin.
In the past he has directed Brecht’s
Jasager/Neinsager in Cardiff and also a production of Heiner
Muller’s Hamletmachine and The Man Who Strides The Wind
an opera by Kevin Volans at The Almeida. More recently he
directed and designed the European premiere of Earth and The
Great Weather by John Luther Adams for the Almeida Opera 2000
season. Recently he designed sets and lighting for Un Ballo
In Maschera for the Vilnius Festival.
Film/TV work this year includes directing
24 short films for the BBC2 series Forty Eight Preludes and
Fugues (J S Bach) and he was lighting director for the other
24 films in the series. He was also Director of Photography
for a new TV film version of Jenufa entitled The Stepdaughter
for BBC2.
In the past his work as a TV/film director has won both the
Opera Screen and Dance Screen Awards and his TV adaptation
of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake was nominated for an Emmy.
His production company Dancelines achieved much ground breaking
work in the area of dance television in the early days of
C4 and then later on BBC2.
He was winner of the 1995 Laurence
Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for his
work on The Glass Blew In for Siobhan Davies Dance Company
and Fearful Symmetries for the Royal Ballet and nominated
Best Lighting Designer in 2000.
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