SOPHIE CHARALAMBOUS
Visual Artist~ Theatre Designer
Contact:
Box 25, 30 Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0JR
Tel: 07986 607 601 email [email protected]
Education:
2008-2009
The Drawing Year.
The Prince’s Drawing School, London.
2001 – 2002
Postgraduate Study in Theatre Design.
Motley Theatre Design Course, London.
1991- 1994
BA Fine Art Painting (2:1)
Brighton University, Brighton.
1989 – 1991
B-tec Dip Art & Design
Bournville Art College, Birmingham.
Select Projects, Design and Exhibitions
2012
“Pretty Gritty City”: Alumni Group Exhibition, The Prince’s Drawing School, London
Production Designer: “The Beach.” A site specific touring production. Greenwich & Lewisham Young
People’s Theatre.
Drawing Tutor. The Mary Ward Centre, London.
Artist Facilitator: Family workshops inspired by the “Shakespeare: Staging the World ” The British
Museum, London.
Production Designer: “4.48 Psychosis” by Sarah Kane and “Cymbeline” by William Shakespeare. The
British American Drama Academy, London
2011
Artist Facilitator: Family workshops inspired by the “Afghanistan: Crossroads of an Ancient World.” The
British Museum, London.
Drawing Tutor. The Mary Ward Centre, London.
Drawing commission. Drawing of the Place Vendome, Paris for the Drawing School’s 10th Anniversary
Party.
Production Designer: “Product” by Mark Ravenhill and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William
Shakespeare. The British American Drama Academy, London.
Design Tutor. Leading a Summer University Course in Set and Costume Design for young people in
Lewisham.
“Dog Days”. An Exhibition of Drawings. Leighton Space, London.
2010:
The Discerning Eye Drawing Award. The Mall Galleries, London.
Lead Designer Working with young adults to create the environment for a fashion show touring South
London in the autumn. Greenwich Heritage Centre, London.
Production Designer for “5 Kind’s of Silence” by Sheila Stephenson, “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka
and “King Lear” by William Shakespeare. British American Drama Academy/The Lost Theatre, London.
Artist Facilitator for the British Museum: Workshops inspired by “Revolution Paper” Mexican
Printmaking Exhibition and currently the “Renaissance Drawings” Exhibition. Working with New Horizons
Youth Centre, the Helen Bamber Foundation & Golden Years Latin American Elders Club.
Lead Designer. “Transitions”. Working with Yr 6 Children Greenwich Lewisham Youth Theatre, London.
Theatre Design Workshops with patients at the John Howard Centre High Security Psychiatric Hospital,
Homerton, London.
2009:
Production Designer for “The Arsonists” by Max Fritsch. British American Drama Academy/Oval House
Theatre, London.
Co Designer for “The Day of the Dead” Event, Procession & Community Arts Project, British Museum,
London.
Winner Excellence in Drawing Award Dover Street Arts Club, Mayfair London.
Production Designer for “Class & Corruption” A Community Opera, the School, Rye, East Sussex.
Workshop Leader for Thames Festival “Beehive” Illuminated Sculpture project with 160 schools in London.
Theatre Design Workshops with patients at the John Howard Centre High Security Psychiatric Hospital,
Homerton, London.
2008
Production Designer for “Welcoming the World” Greenwich & Lewisham Young People’s Theatre.
Arts Event for the 2012 Olympics with schools in South and East London.
Exhibition of Drawings- “Out of Their Element” at the Waterpoint, St Pancras Basin, London
Production Designer for “Charlie and Lola”, The Polka Children’s Theatre, Wimbledon.
Production Designer for Harold Pinter’s short plays, ‘Macbeth’ and “Hamlet”
British American Drama Academy/Oval House Theatre, London.
Workshop Leader for Thames Festival “Wishing Tree” project with 150 schools across London.
2007
Production Designer “Checkov”, “Doctor Faustus” by Thomas Marlowe and
“Elektra” by Euripides. The British American Drama Academy/Oval House Theatre, London
Illustrations commissioned for Hi Jinx Theatre Company for forthcoming touring productions.
Production Designer revival of “Giselle.”
The Fabulous Beast Dance Co. Wroclaw Theatre Festival, Poland.
Workshop leader for two Art and Drama Projects, creating new pieces of theatre with children for Black
History Month in Tottenham.
Production Designer “A Singer from the Desert Came”
Grenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre.
Working with yr 7 children from Bonus Pastor Secondary School.
Workshop leader for the “Pan London Project” in 10 schools over the summer term, creating artwork for the
Thames Festival Weekend.
2006
Production Designer. “Orange” by Alan Harris
Scrypt Cymru, Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff.
Production Designer. “The Way of the World” by William Congreve, “King Lear”
by William Shakespeare and “Beckett Shorts”. The British American Drama Academy, London.
Artist in Residence. Tiverton Primary School, London.
Production Designer. “The Under 11’s Playwrighting Festival”. The Soho Theatre, London.
2005
Costume Designer. “The Pied Piper” Composer: Kate Pearson. A new children’s Touring Opera. Opera
North, Leeds. Revived 2006.
Production Designer. “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book?” The Soho Theatre, London, Warwick
Arts Centre, Coventry. Revived 2006
Workshop Leader. Stop frame animation making project with teenagers, part of Arts Council
exchange project with young people in South Africa.
Moving Hands Theatre Company, Birmingham.
Production Designer. “Under 11’s Playwrighting Festival”. The Soho Theatre, London.
2004
Visual Artist. “Outside/In”.
Drawing and mixed media project with Primary School children, creating work for an installation at the
Royal Festival Hall.
Production Designer. “Matches for Monkeys” by Sean Buckley. The Chelsea Theatre, London.
Production Designer. “The Round Dance.” By Arthur Schnitzler
The Roundhouse Undercroft, London.
Costume Designer/Workshop Leader. Collaborating with a Lighting Designer and running a series of
design workshops for 16-24 workshops for Camden Summer University.
2003
Co- founded “The Haringey Children’s Musical Theatre Project”. Running workshops, developing and
performing new musicals with children in Tottenham. The project ran until 2006.
Production Designer. “John Patrick Norman McHennessy- The Boy Who was Always Late.”
By John Burningham. Developing a new piece of theatre for children. The National Theatre Studio, London.
Production Designer. “Giselle.” The Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre Company.
Dublin International Theatre Festival. The Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin.
Revived 2004/5. Newhaven Festival of Arts & Ideas, US, the Barbican Theatre, BITE season, London.
winner of the judges special award for theatre- The Irish Times 2003
Nominated for an Olivier Award for New Dance Production 2006
Production Designer. “Debris.” By Dennis Kelly.
The Latchmere Theatre, London.
Revived 2005/06 Wiesbaden International Writing Festival, Germany, The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
Highly Commended- Time Out Fringe Productions Awards 2003
Costume Designer/Workshop Leader. “Night Flight of the Demons”. The Thames Festival
London. Collaborating with a Lighting Designer and running a series of workshops for 12-24 year olds,
including workshops for Camden Summer University.
Production Designer. “The Under 11’s Playwrighting Festival”.
The Soho theatre, London.
Pre 2003
Many exhibitions, Residences and Awards for paintings and drawings