Jamie Vartan – Set Designer

Jamie Vartan has worked extensively as a designer in theatre, opera and dance. He studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic and Theatre Design at Central St Martins.

Designs for theatre include Happy Days (Landmark Productions); Woyzeck in Winter, Arlington, Ballyturk and Misterman (Best Set Design, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards; Best Set Design, World Stage Design – Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival); Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Comclipité and Wayward Productions in association with Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival); Bondagers (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Khandan (Royal Court); Mass Observation (Almeida); Knives in Hens (Perth Theatre); The Lost Child Trilogy (David Glass Ensemble), with residencies in Vietnam, Indonesia, China, Philippines, Colombia.

Opera includes The First Child, The Second Violinist and The Last Hotel (Landmark Productions and Irish National Opera); La traviata (Malmö); Ariadne auf Naxos (Salzburg); Carmen (Lisbon), A Village Romeo and Juliet (Best Set Design, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards – Wide Open Opera); Eugene Onegin (Opéra du Rhin); The Queen of Spades, Ariadne auf Naxos (La Scala); productions in Cagliari, Naples, Florence, Parma, ROH and Scottish Opera.

Film production design includes The Last Hotel (Sky Arts).