GEORGIE WHITE
Theatre Designer
ACCOLADES/ PREVIOUS ROLES
RSC Assistant Designer 2021 - 2022
Winner of the Nottingham Playhouse Prize 2019
for a speculative design for An Enemy of the People
EDUCATION
Nottingham Trent University: 2016 – 2019
First Class BA Hons in Theatre Design
THEATRE DESIGN CREDITS
2023
Fabulation
Dir. Monae Robinson
Battersea Arts Centre
The Welkin
Dir. Hannah Eidinow
Battersea Arts Centre
Milestones
Dir. Sandra Preciado
Bloomsbury Studio Theatre
RSC Next Generation presents: Hamlet
Dir. Paul Ainsworth
RSC The Other Place
Apocalypse Bear
Dir. James Christianson
Jack Studio Theatre
Earthquakes in London
Dir. Scott Le Crass
Clapham Omnibus Theatre - Rose Bruford College
Moon Rabbit and Other Stories from China
Dir. Toby Hulse
Lakeside Arts Centre and Nottingham schools and libraries tour
2022
Next Generation Backstage: Macbeth
Dir. Paul Ainsworth
RSC The Other Place
Kiss Me Kate
Dir. Christian Anthony
Samuel Pepys Theatre - St. Paul’s School
Twelfth Night or What you Will – First Encounters with Shakespeare
Dir. Robin Belfield
RSC - UK Tour
2021
Next Generation Backstage (co-design with Frances Norburn)
Dir. Paul Ainsworth
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
RSC Next Generation presents: All Mirth and no Matter
Dir. Aaron Parsons
RSC Garden Theatre
2020
Finders Keepers
By Simon Marshall, dir. Tom Craig
Derby Theatre Reimagine Project
Pinocchio
By Sarah Middleton, dir: Hannah Stone
Neville Studio, Nottingham Playhouse
2019
DNA (co-design with Imogen Melhuish)
by Dennis Kelly, dir: Giles Croft
Nottingham Lakeside Arts Centre
ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE DESIGNER CREDITS
2023
*Confidential project name (CAD and image rendering)
Des. Tim McQuillen-Wright
Tosca (Model Maker)
Des. Niall McKeever
Cosi Fan tutti (Assistant Designer)
Des. Jemima Robinson
Welsh National Opera
The Inquiry (Model Maker)
Des. Max Jones
Chichester Festival Theatre
Russian Opera Triple Bill (Assistant Designer)
Des. Jemima Robinson
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2022
The Greek Plays 2022 (Assistant Designer)
Des. Jemima Robinson
Cambridge Arts Theatre
Richard III (Assistant Designer)
Des. Stephen Brimson Lewis, Dir. Greggory Doran
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Henry VI (Model maker)
Des. Stephen Brimson Lewis, Dir. Own Horsley
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Much Ado About Nothing (Associate Designer)
Des. Jemima Robinson, Dir. Roy Alexander Weise
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
OTHER DESIGN EXPERIENCE
2023
Display for the The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Nottingham Lakeside Arts Centre
2022
Artistic Director Dinner (co-design with Frances Norburn)
Designing for a special evening event in the Backstage Trust, The Other Place
RSC
2021
The Magician’s Elephant Front of house design (co-design with Frances Norburn)
Creating interactive and immersive front of house displays for families to engage with over the Christmas period
RSC
Costume Day
Designing an event across the Bancroft Gardens to highlight the wonders of the new costume workshop and engage the community with the RSC’s costume making
RSC
It Starts with a Seed
Filmed Performance with aerialists and groups of young people performing circus skills.
Circus Hub Nottingham
‘Eco Bunting’ Boxes
Designing and creating boxes to facilitate a bunting making workshop.
Hubbub Theatre Company
Display for the The Gingerbread man
Nottingham Lakeside Arts Centre
2020
‘Cosy Comforts’ Boxes
Designing and creating boxes containing activities and materials to keep people creative over lockdown.
Hubbub Theatre Company
2019
Display for the Snow Dragon
Nottingham Lakeside Arts Centre
Designing and making models for Kind Girls, Evil Sisters & Wicked Witches: Women in Fairytales exhibition
National Justice Museum
SCENIC ART, SET DRESSING, PUPPET MAKING
2022
Puppet Maker
My Neighbor Totoro
RSC/Barbican
2020
Set, costume and props repairs
Smile, des. Helen Fownes-Davies
MishMash Productions
2019
Scenic painter
Little Red Riding Hood, des. Sam Wilde
Derby Theatre
Scenic painter
Treasure Island, des. Neil Irish
Derby Theatre
Scenic painter
Gretel, des. Chris Johns
The Playbox Theatre
Set dresser
Snow Queen, des. Sam Wilde
Trinity Theatre
Set dresser
The Working Party Presents, des. Jasmine Swan
The Pleasance Theatre
Costume dresser
Impact Dance Show, des. Amber Scarlett
The Place
Set dresser
A Comedy of Errors
The Attic Theatre
2018
Scenic painter and Set dresser
Cabaret des. Jasmine Swan
Westminster School
WORKSHOPS
2022
Much Ado About Nothing design process
RSC
2020
Production in a Nutshell
Derby Theatre (online)
2019
Role of a Theatre Designer
Nottingham Lakeside Arts Centre Youth Theatre
WORK EXPERIENCE
Almeida Theatre: Aug - Sep 2018
Technical Placement
Royal Opera House: May 2018
Model Room work experience placement