Ryan Dawson Laight

Set and Costume Design credits include: Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (The Other Palace/UK Tour); My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (New York City Center/Ambassadors Theatre/Garrick Theatre/Turbine Theatre); I Wish (Unicorn Theatre); A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (Gate Theatre/Paines Plough); Wind in The Willows, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Grimm Tales, and The Tiger Who Came To Tea (Chichester Festival Theatre); Half-Empty Glasses and The Ultimate Pickle (Paines Plough/Edinburgh/Tour); Ride the Cyclone (Southwark Playhouse); Magical Merlin (St Martin's Theatre); Just So (Barn Theatre); Frankenstein’s Monster is Drunk and the Sheep Have Jumped All the Fences (Belfast International Arts Festival/Big Telly/59E59); Torch Song Trilogy (Turbine Theatre); Duckie (Royal Festival Hall); Black (Unity Theatre Liverpool/Soho Theatre); Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory); Henry VIII (Guildhall); and HMS Pinafore, Chess, Blondel, and The Mikado (Union Theatre).

Costume Design credits include: How To Win Against History (Bristol Old Vic); The Creakers (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Southbank Centre); Burlesque: The Musical (Manchester Opera House/Glasgow Theatre Royal); Twelfth Night, La Cage aux Folles (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); and Wild About You (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).

Ryan was Associate Designer for Creation Theatre where he designed over 25 shows.

Dance credits include: For Akram Khan, Memories of the Future (Bradford 25); For Botis Seva and Past the Point (GöteborgsOperans Danskompani); Until We Sleep (Sadler’s Wells/International Tour); Good Youts Walk (UK Tour); BLKDOG (Sadler’s Wells - Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production); For Boy Blue and Gravity (NYDT); Blak Whyte Gray (Barbican - Nominated for Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production); REDD (Barbican); For Drew McOnie and Nutcracker (Southbank Centre); Drunk (Leicester Curve/Bridewell); For Gary Clarke Company and Detention (CAST Doncaster); Wasteland (UK Tour); and Coal (UK Tour - UK Theatre Award for Achievement in Dance).

Awards include WhatsOnStage Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles; and nominated for Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles.