Jamie Vartan
Awards
2016 Winner of the Irish Times Award for Best Set Design for Shackleton
2014 Winner of the Irish Times Award for Best Opera for Cristina, Regina di Svezia
2013 Winner of the World Stage Design Award for Best Set Design for Misterman
2012 Winner of the Irish Times Awards for Best Set Design Romeo & Juliet
Nominations
2022 Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best opera for Hansel and Gretel (Irish National Opera, Theatre Lovett, Abbey Theatre)
2022 Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best opera for The First Child (Irish National Opera)
2019 Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Set Design with Will Duke for Grief is The Thing With Feathers
2018 Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Set Design for The Second Violinist
2018 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland Best Design for Knives in Hens
Jamie Vartan is a set & costume designer who has worked extensively in opera and theatre in the UK and Europe. Jamie trained at Central School of Art and Design.
“Bondagers - Royal Lyceum Edinburgh
Kemp harnesses the earthy lyricism of the writing to create a deeply moving, richly textured piece of theatre that gains great power from Jamie Vartan’s impressionistic set of wood, soil and smoke.”
“Ballyturk - Black Box Theatre
Ballyturk, a place that may or may not exist, still seems strangely familiar. We are in a huge sealed room, a sparse industrial space of light greys and rust browns, designed by Jamie Vartan.”
Gallery
2024
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Rigoletto | Irish National Opera, Dir. Julien Chavas |
| Mother Courage and Her Children | The Factory, Sligo, Dir. Niall Henry |
| William Tell | Theatre Saint Gallen, Dir. Julien Chavas | Audrey or Sorrow | Landmark Productions, Dir. Catriona McLaughlin | Aleko | Grange Park Opera, Dir. Stephen Metcalf |
| Gianni Schichi | Grange Park Opera, Dir. Stephen Medcalf |
2023
Production |
Company |
Krapp's Last Tape | Landmark Productions. Dir. Vicky Featherstone | A Place With the Pigs | Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, Dir. Niall Henry | Bedbound | Landmark Productions, Dir. Marc Atkinson Borrull |
|---|---|
| Blume von Hawaii | Theatre Magdeburg, Dir. Julien Chavaz |
| The Marriage of Figaro | Royal Academy of Music | Cosi fan tutte | Irish National Opera, Dir. Polly Graham | Happy Days | Landmark Productions, Dir. Catriona McLaughlin |
2022
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| The Last Pearl | Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, Dir. Niall Henry | William Tell | Irish National Opera, Dir. Julien Chavas | I Am Tiger | Perth Theatre, Dir. Lu Kemp | Gods of The Game: a Football Opera | Grange Park Opera, Dir. PJ Harris |
| The First Child | Irish National Opera & Landmark Productions, Dir. Enda Walsh |
| The Second Violinist | Irish National Opera & Landmark Productions, Dir. Enda Walsh, Sound Des. Helen Atkinson |
| The Lonesome West | Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, Dir. Andrew Flynn, Set Des. Jamie Vartan, Costume Des. Sinead Cuthbert |
| The Tin Soldier | Gate Theatre, Dublin, Dir. Muireann Ahern, Set Des. Jamie Vartan |
2021
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Happy Days | Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Dir. Caitríona McLaughlin |
| The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko (World Premiere) | Grange Park Opera, Dir. Stephen Medcalf |
| Falstaff | Grange Park Opera, Dir. Stephen Medcalf |
2020
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Hansel and Gretel | Irish National Opera, Dirs. Muireann Ahern & Louis Lovett |
| La bohème | Grange Park Opera, Revival Dir. Peter Relton |
2019
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Dead Man Walking | Oldenburgisches Staatstheater (Germany), Dir. Olivia Fuchs |
| Grief Is the Thing With Feathers | Barbican (London) & St Ann's Warehouse (US), Dir. Enda Walsh, Sound Des. Helen Atkinson, Costume Des. Christina Cunningham |
| Ariadne auf Naxos | Teatro alla Scalla, Dir. Frederic Wake-Walker |
| The Second Violinist | Dutch National Opera, Dir. Enda Walsh |
| Pale Sister - World Premiere | The Gate Theatre, Dir. Carey Perloff |
| Ravens: Spassky vs. Fischer - World Premiere | Hampstead Theatre, Dir. Annabelle Comyn |
2018
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Grief Is the Thing With Feathers | Black Box Theatre & O'Reilly Theatre (Ireland), Dir. Enda Walsh, Sound Des. Helen Atkinson, Costume Des. Christina Cunningham |
| Eugene Onegin | Opéra national du Rhin, Dir.Frederic Wake-Walker |
| The Second Violinist | Barbican (London), Dir. Enda Walsh |
| Bluebeard's Castle | Irish National Opera, Dir. Enda Walsh, Sound Des. Helen Atkinson |
| Un Ballo in Maschera | Grange Park Opera, Dir. Stephen Medcalf |
| Knives in Hens | Perth Theatre Royal, Dir. Lu Kemp |
| Ballyturk | St Ann's Warehouse (New York),Dir. Enda Walsh |
2017
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Touched | Nottingham Playhouse, Dir. Matt Aston |
| Manon Lescaut | Petruzzelli Theatre, Dir. Stephen Medcalf |
| Die Walkure | Grange Park Opera (UK), Dir. Stephen Medcalf |
| Ballyturk & Arlington | Landmark Galway International Arts Festival Abbey Theatre, Dir. Edna Walsh, Sound Des. Helen Atkinson |
| The Second Violinist | Landmark & Wide Open Opera, Dir. Enda Walsh, Sound Des. Helen Atkinson |
| Woyzeck in Winter | Galway International Arts Festival, Dir. Conall Morrison |
| The Lounge | China Plate Theatre, Dir. Lu Kemp |
| 101 Dalmations | Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Dir. Tessa Walker |
2016
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Shackleton | Blueraincoat Theatre Co. & Co. Sligo (Ireland), Dir. Niall Henry |
| Barber of Seville | Wide Open Opera at Wexford Opera House, Dir. Michael Barker-Caven |
| The Lounge | Inspector Sands & China Plate, Dir. Lu Kemp |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Theatre Royal Bath, Dir. Edward Hall |
| Rape of Lucretia | Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Dir. Martin Lloyd Evans |
| The White Devil | Shakespeare's Globe, Dir. Annie Ryan |
2015
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Have Your Circumstances Changed? | Archway Mall (London), Dir. Lu Kemp |
| The Happiness Project | The Roundhouse (London) and Edinburgh International Festival |
| L'amore dei tre re (Revival) | Opera Holland Park, Dir. Martin Lloyd Evans |
| The Last Hotel | UK Tour & St Anne's Warehouse (New York), Dir. Enda Walsh, Sound Des. Helen Atkinson |
| La bohème | Grange Park Opera, Dir. Stephen Medcalf |
| Carmen (Revival) | Cagliary |
| Herculanum | Wexford Festival Opera (Ireland), Dir. Stephen Medcalf |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Dir. Tessa Walker |
| Falstaff | Royal Opera House, Muscat , Sultanate of Oman |
2014
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Manon Lescaut (Revival) | Valencia Opera |
| The Playboy of the Western World | Blueraincoat Theatre, Dir. Niall Henry |
| The Girl's Guide to Saving the World, by Elinor Cook | HighTide Festival (Suffolk), Chor. Amelia Sears |
| Khandan | Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Dir. Roxana Silbert |
| Adriana Lecouvreuer | Opera Holland Park, Dir. Martin Lloyd-Evans |
| Bondagers | Royal Lyceum (Edinburgh), Dir. Lu Kemp |
| Ballyturk | Ireland Tour & National Theatre (London), Dir. Enda Walsh |