Ryan Dawson Laight is a Costume and Set Designer, working extensively in Theatre and Dance.

Ryan won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), which also was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Costume Design.

Currently: Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe); Memories of the Future (Akram Khan Company/Dance United Yorkshire/Bradford 25); Burlesque The Musical; How to Win Against History (Bristol Old Vic); Detention (Gary Clarke Company)

Theatre includes: Burlesque The Musical (Manchester Opera House/Adama Entertainment); La Cage Aux Folles, Twelfth Night (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (The Other Palace); The Creakers (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Southbank Centre); Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); I Wish (Unicorn Theatre); My Son’s A Queer But What Can You Do (Garrick and New Ambassadors Theatre, West End, Edinburgh and Turbine Theatre); 2022 Roundabout Season for Paines Plough (Edinburgh and Tour); My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre, Associate Costume Design for Soutra Gilmour); Wind in The Willows, Pinocchio, The Wizard of Oz, Crossing Lines, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, A Christmas CarolGrimm TalesThe Tiger Who Came To Tea (all for Chichester Festival Theatre); Mother Goose (Cheltenham Everyman); Department Story for Big Telly (Belfast International Arts Festival); Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk And The Sheep have Jumped All The Fences (Belfast International Arts Festival and 59E59, NYC).

Torch Song (Turbine Theatre, dir. Drew McOnie);  for Le Gateau Chocolat: Duckie (Royal Festival Hall), Icons (Edinburgh Festival), Black (Unity Theatre Liverpool/Soho Theatre) and Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory);  HMS Pinafore, ChessBlondel and The Mikado (Union Theatre National Tours); for the Brit School: Landmines (Oval House), Sticky and Infinite Joy (Southwark Playhouse);  Chip Shop The Musical (Octagon Theatre Bolton);  Ice Cream Opera (Freedom Arts Studio).

Associate Designer at Creation Theatre, including: Beauty and The Beast, Grimm Tales, Alice: A Digital Wonderland, Don Quixote, The Tempest, The Snow Queen, Peter Pan, Brave New World, Swallows and Amazons, Dracula, A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, Hamlet, Macbeth, As You Like It, Henry IV, King Lear and Treasure Island

Dance includes:  The Nutcracker (chor. Drew McConie, Royal Festival Hall); Until We Sleep for Botis Seva (Sadler’s Wells and International Tour); Neighbours for Brigel Gjoka, Rauf “RubberLegz” Yasit & Ruşan Filiztek created in collaboration with William Forsythe (Sadler’s Wells and International Tour); A Tale of Two Cities for Lost Dog/Ben Duke (International Tour); Speak Volumes, Quartier Paradis for Alessandra Seutin (NYDC/Sadler’s Wells); Botis Seva’s Good Youts Walk (Tour); Botis Seva's BLKDOG (Sadler’s Wells, Olivier Award Best New Dance 2019);  Blak Whyte Gray (Boy Blue/Barbican, Olivier Award Nomination 2018);  REDD (Boy Blue/Barbican Theatre);  Madhead (NYDC/Sadler's Wells);  WastelandCoal (Gary Clarke Company, UK Theatre Award for Achievement in Dance); ToroMariposaHam and Passion (DeNada Dance Theatre); Drew McOnie's Drunk (Leicester Curve/Bridewell Theatre) and Good Morning Midnight (Jermyn Street Theatre);  Genius (Anjali);  New Ways Of Living (Pink Fringe Brighton);  Je Suis (Aakash Odedra Company/Lillian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells);  Ruffle (Carlos Pons Guerra/Rambert Dance/Lowry Theatre);  Hear Hear (Deaf Men Dancing, Sadler’s Wells).

Education: Ryan has been a visiting designer and lecturer at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, The BRIT School (Croydon), University of Chichester, Aiglon College (Switzerland), ALRA, London Studio Centre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Trinity Laban, and Tring School of Performing Arts, and he has been an artist in residence at Saint Gilgen International School (Austria). He delivered workshops for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Working Title Films, Chichester Festival Theatre, and his own workshops from his studio (Backstage Design Workshop).

@laightyboyy

Associates include:

Kingsley Hall www.costumecouture.co.uk

Anna Reid www.annareiddesign.com

Elliott Squire www.elliottsquire.com

April Dalton www.aprildalton.com

Hannah Boothman www.hannahboothman.com