Louie is a set and costume designer whose work spans Theatre, Ballet and Opera as well as installations and site-specific productions.
Based in the UK, she has worked around the country and abroad, with productions in Germany, Italy and Lithuania as well as further afield in America, China, Pakistan and Palestine.
She grew up in the Lake District and spent summers at the National Youth Theatre. Following school she completed a degree in Technical and Production Arts at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). She studied at the Motley Theatre Design Course, directed by Alison Chitty, Ashley Martin Davis and Anthony Lamble.
Some career highlights include :
THEATRE
The Circle / Suite in Three Keys | The Orange Tree, Bath Theatre Royal
Krapps Last Tape / Eh Joe / Old Tune | Jermyn Street Theatre
Toms Midnight Garden, Handbagged, Lady Killers, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Dear Uncle, Single Spies, Bold Girls, Miss Julie, Creditors | Theatre by the Lake
Around the World in 80 Days | Hull Truck, Theatre by the Lake
Three Birds | Bush Theatre, Royal Exchange Manchester
Good Soul | Young Vic
Egusi Soup | Soho Theatre
The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson | The Park Theatre, UK Tour
Stewart Lee: Content Provider / Snowflake / Tornado | UK tour, BBC 2
Potted Sherlock | Vaudeville Theatre, UK Tour
Sweet Charity, The Beautiful Game |Arts Ed
Mud | Gate Theatre
The Daughter-In-Law, The Dog, the Night and the Knife | Arcola Theatre
Blythe Spirit | Beijing
Original Death Rabbit, For Services Rendered, Tonight At 8.30, Tomorrow At Noon, Creditors, Miss Julie | Jermyn Street Theatre
The Minotaur, My Father Odysseus | Unicorn Theatre
The Winter’s Tale | NAPA Karachi
Lost Land | Jenin, Palestine
Shakespeare Untold, The Magic Playroom | UK Tour, Pleasance Theatre
I Am A Superhero | Old Vic New Voices at Theatre503
DANCE
Nora / She Persisted | English National Ballet
Nostalgia | Northern Ballet
The Nutcracker | Shanghai Ballet
Egle | Lithuania National Ballet
ENB Choreographics Programme 2015 - 2017, Dance Journeys 2016/ 2017/ 2019 | English National Ballet at Sadler’s Wells/The Barbican
OPERA
Messiah | Danish Opera, Frankfurt Opera
Carmen | Dorset Opera
Banished | Blackheath Halls
Serse / Der Kaiser | RSC Glasgow
Montiverdi Madrigals / Der Zar lässt sich photographieren| Guildhall
English Touring Opera Autumn Bill | Hackney Empire and UK Tour
Opera Makers 2022 / 2024 | Guildhall
The Magic Flute, Carmen, La Bohème, Albert Herring, The Marriage of Figaro | costume design for Co Opera Co
TEACHING, MENTORING AND EXHIBITION DESIGN
Louie regularly delivers CPD and Student workshops for the Royal Opera House Create and Design programme.
She has taught projects for Middlesex University and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has also led workshops for the JMK Foundation, Theatre by the Lake and for drama students at A level and GCSE level as well as providing work experience placements throughout her career.
Subject matter has included model making, the director designer relationship, what it means to be a designer, the use of colour and how to use design in helping tell the best story.
Exhibition designs include Theatre by the Lake at 25, The Designers Journey at Shakespeare North and FutureWorlds for Manchester Royal Exchange.
Please contact her directly if you would like to engage her for any of the above. Click here to send Louie an email.
NOMINATIONS
Olivier Nominated Best Production in an Affiliate Theatre for A Place for We at the Park Theatre with Talawah Thames
Offie Nominated for Best Costume Designer for Suite in Three Keys at The Orange Tree / Bath Theatre Royal and The Daughter-in-Law at the Arcola Theatre
Best Set Designer for Tonight at 8.30 at Jermyn Street.
OldVic12 2016 finalist
JMK 2010 Finalist.
Associate Designer to Theatre by the Lake and Jermyn Street Theatre.