Set Designer

Jamie Vartan

The First Child, William Tell, Così fan tutte

Biography

Jamie Vartan studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic & Theatre Design at Central St Martins. Designs for opera include Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s The First Child, The Second Violinist and The Last Hotel (Landmark Productions/Irish National Opera); Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (INO); Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (Wide Open Opera); Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos and Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades (La Scala); Verdi’s La traviata (Malmö); Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Opéra national du Rhin); Anthony Bolton’s The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko and Puccini’s La bohème (Grange Park Opera); Bizet’s Carmen (Lisbon); Ariadne auf Naxos (Salzburg); Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (Oldenburg); Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet (Wexford Festival Opera, winner Best Set Design, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards); Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (Bilbao and Valencia) and Verdi’s Falstaff (Grange Park Opera, Oman & Parma). Earlier this year he designed the set for INO’s production of Rossini’s William Tell. Film design includes The Last Hotel (Sky Arts). Designs for theatre include The Lonesome West (Gaiety Theatre); Medicine, Woyzeck in Winter, Arlington, Ballyturk and Misterman (Landmark Productions/Galway International Arts Festival); Happy Days (Olympia/Landmark Productions); Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Complicité/Wayward Productions/Landmark Productions/Galway International Arts Festival); Bondagers (Edinburgh Lyceum); Ravens: Spassky v Fischer (Hampstead Theatre); Knives in Hens (Perth); Have Your Circumstances Changed? (Artangel) and The Lost Child Trilogy (David Glass Ensemble).

May 2023