Presenter – Alex Marker

Suitable for: directors and would-be designers

Alex is currently the Artistic Director of the Questors and Director of Questors Youth Theatre.  Alex trained as a stage designer at Wimbledon School of Art; has designed over 150 productions ranging from fringe to the West End.  Recently at Questors he designed King Arthur and the Twelfth Night, Hangmen, Apologia, India Gate and Snow White. 

See Alex’s website for his full biography and examples of his work HERE

Stage design for amateur productions can be very different from professional, not only in the obvious area of finance, but particularly that the roles of director, designer, set building, costume and realisation are clear in professional theatre but can overlap on our theatres when there’s a lack of members coming forward in each specialism.  Directors can find themselves straying into other areas when they’d prefer to be working with the actors.

Concentrating on stage design, in this session Alex will talk about working short-handed - translating text and writer’s demands into a practical yet imaginative design – guiding you in using your imaginations to come up with innovative designs that serve the text properly and that all the allied departments are content with!