Ryan Dawson Laight is a Costume and Set Designer, working extensively in Theatre and Dance.
Ryan has recently been nominated for Best Costume Design at the Whatsonstage Awards for La Cage Aux Folles.
Currently: The Nutcracker (chor. Drew McConie) (Royal Festival Hall), My Son’s a Queer (Lyceum Theatre, Broadway), I Wish (Unicorn Theatre), Burlesque The Musical (Manchester Opera House/Adama Entertainment).
Theatre includes: La Cage Aux Folles (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), My Son’s A Queer But What Can You Do (Garrick and New Ambassadors Theatre, West End, Edinburgh and Turbine Theatre), 2022 Roundabout Season for Paines Plough (Edinburgh and Tour), My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre, Associate Costume Design for Soutra Gilmour); Wind in The Willows, Pinocchio, The Wizard of Oz, Crossing Lines, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Grimm Tales, The Tiger Who Came To Tea (all for Chichester Festival Theatre). Mother Goose (Cheltenham Everyman). Department Story for Big Telly (Belfast International Arts Festival) and Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk And The Sheep have Jumped All The Fences (Belfast International Arts Festival and 59E59, NYC). Associate Designer at Creation Theatre. Recent work for the company includes Beauty and The Beast, Grimm Tales, Alice: A Digital Wonderland, Don Quixote, The Tempest, The Snow Queen, Peter Pan, Brave New World, Swallows and Amazons, Dracula, A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, Hamlet, Macbeth, As You Like It, Henry IV, King Lear and Treasure Island; Torch Song (Turbine Theatre, dir. Drew McOnie); for Le Gateau Chocolat: Duckie (Royal Festival Hall), Icons (Edinburgh Festival), Black (Unity Theatre Liverpool/Soho Theatre) and Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory); HMS Pinafore, Chess, Blondel and The Mikado (Union Theatre national tours); for the Brit School: Landmines (Oval House), Sticky and Infinite Joy (Southwark Playhouse); Chip Shop The Musical (Octagon Theatre Bolton); Ice Cream Opera (Freedom Arts Studio).
Dance includes: Mama for Botis Seva (Sadler’s Wells and International Tour), Neighbours for Brigel Gjoka, Rauf “RubberLegz” Yasit & Ruşan Filiztek created in collaboration with William Forsythe (Sadler’s Wells and International Tour), A Tale of Two Cities for Lost Dog/Ben Duke (International Tour), Speak Volumes, Quartier Paradis for Alessandra Seutin (NYDC/Sadler’s Wells), Botis Seva’s Good Youts Walk (Tour), Botis Seva's BLKDOG (Sadler’s Wells, Olivier Award Best New Dance 2019); Blak Whyte Gray (Boy Blue/Barbican, Olivier Award Nomination 2018); REDD (Boy Blue/Barbican Theatre); Madhead (NYDC/Sadler's Wells); Wasteland, Coal (Gary Clark Company, UK Theatre Award for Achievement in Dance); Toro, Mariposa, Ham and Passion (DeNada Dance Theatre); Drew McOnie's Drunk (Leicester Curve/Bridewell Theatre) and Good Morning Midnight (Jermyn Street Theatre); Genius (Anjali); New Ways Of Living (Pink Fringe Brighton); Je Suis (Aakash Odedra Company/Lillian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells); Ruffle (Carlos Pons Guerra/Rambert Dance/Lowry Theatre); Hear Hear (Deaf Men Dancing, Sadler’s Wells).
Education: Ryan has been a visiting designer and lecturer at BRIT School (Croydon), University of Chichester, Aiglon College (Switzerland), ALRA, London Studio Centre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Trinity Laban, Tring School of Performing Arts, as well as delivering workshops for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Working Title Films, Chichester Festival Theatre, and his own workshops from his studio (Backstage Design Workshop).
@laightyboyy
Associates include:
Kingsley Hall www.costumecouture.co.uk
Anna Reid www.annareiddesign.com
Elliott Squire www.elliottsquire.com
April Dalton www.aprildalton.com