Nate is a British-American designer for performance working across film, opera, theatre, and dance.
He holds an MA in Theatre Design from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and has a background in performance art and sculpture, with a BA in Interdisciplinary Art from Alfred University, New York.
His design work for opera includes Die Tote Stadt with director Carmen Jakobi (LFO); Sir John in Love with Harry Fehr (British Youth Opera); The Cunning Little Vixen with Olivia Fuchs (LFO); Don Giovanni with Martin Lloyd-Evans (Clonter Opera); The Emperor of Atlantis (Loud Crowd & Bold Tendencies); Simplicius Simplicissimus with Polly Graham and (Independent Opera ); A Christmas Carol (Welsh National Opera); and The Marriage of Figaro with Stephen Medcalf (Clonter Opera). In theatre, highlights include Clybourne Park with director Anthony Lau, A Bright New Boise with Ros Philips, and Pomona with Tess Seddon at LAMDA. Dance highlights include The Monocle and Murder My Sweet! With Rendez-vous Dance company.
Nate’s work in film has included production design for Mummy’s Present and assisting production designer Natasha Jenkins on the award-winning short Myrtle directed by Patricia McCormack, and the Anywhere Away From Here music video for Rag’n’Bone Man and Pink.
CONTACT
CV
WORK
Stage Design
2024 'Maria de Rudenz', Dir. Lysanne Van Overbeek, Gothic Opera at Battersea Arts Centre
2024 'Aida', associate designer, Dir./Des. Thaddeus Strassberger, Oper im Steinbruch
2023 'Autumn Opera Scenes', dir. Martin Lloyd-Evans, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
2023 'The Fairy Queen', dir. Polly Graham, Longborough Festival Opera
2023 'L'Orfeo', dir. Olivia Fuchs, Longborough Festival Opera
2022 'Autumn Opera Scenes', dir. Martin Lloyd-Evans, GSMD
2022 'Die Tote Stadt', dir. Carmen Jakobi, Longborough Festival Opera
2022 'The Monocle', chor. Mathieu Geffre, Rendez-Vous Dance Company
2021 'The Cunning Little Vixen', dir. Olivia Fuchs, Longborough Festival Opera
2019 'A Few Good Men', dir. Marieke Audsley, LAMDA
2019 'Clybourne Park', dir. Anthony Lau, LAMDA
2019 'The Wolves', dir. Mary Papadima, LAMDA
2019 'Don Giovanni', dir. Martin Lloyd Evans, Clonter Opera
2019 'Anna Bolena', dir. Jenny Miller, Longborough Festival Opera
2018 'The Emperor of Atlanis', dir. Polly Graham, Loud Crowd at Bold Tendencies
2018 'L’Inccoronazione di Poppea', dir. Jenny Miller, Longborough Festival Opera
2018 'A Bright New Boise', dir. Ros Philips, Carne Studio, LAMDA
2018 'We Are Three Sisters', dir. Amelia Sears, Linbury Studio, LAMDA
2018 Associate designer - 'Jubilee', dir. Chris Goode, des. Chloe Lamford, Lyric Hammersmith
2017 ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, dir. Stephen Medcalf, Clonter Opera Theatre
2017 ‘Other People’, dir. Matthew Peover, Carne Studio, LAMDA
2017 ‘Holes in the Skin’, dir. Penny Cherns, Linbury Studio, LAMDA
2017 ‘Realism’, dir. Natalie Wilson, Linbury Studio, LAMDA
2017 'NSFW’, dir. Anthony Clark, Linbury Studio, LAMDA
2016 'A Christmas Carol' dir. Polly Graham, Welsh National Opera and Haydn Foundation
2016 'Simplicius Simplicissimus' dir. Polly Graham, Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells
2016 Co-Designer w/ Jacob Hughes 'Strawberry and Chocolate' dir. Jazz Martinez-Gamboa,
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA)
2016 'Woyzeck' dir. Lars Maagerø, LAMDA
2016 'The Marriage of Figaro' dir. Martin Constantine, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
2015 'A Christmas Carol' dir. Polly Graham, Welsh National Opera
2015 Co-Designer w/ Jacob Hughes 'Earthquakes in London', Latymer Upper School
2015 'Macbeth' dir. Stuart Clarke, Cordial Productions
2015 'Make An Aria' dir. Michael McCarthy, Music Theatre Wales & Royal Welsh College
2014 ‘Murder My Sweet!’ Alternative Routes, chor. Mathieu Geffré, National Dance Company Wales
2014 ‘Mr. Punch and Me’ opera showcase, dir. Polly Graham, RWCMD
2013 Set design ‘Almost, Maine’ dir. Holly Durand, Alfred University Performing Arts
2012 Set design ‘The Way of the World’ dir. Becky Prophet, AUPA
Production Design
2021 'Mummy's Present', dir. Trim Lamba
Art Department
2021 'Anywhere Away From Here' - Rag'n'Bone Man & Pink music video, dir. Joe Connor
2020 'Myrtle', dir. Patricia McCormack
Assistant Design and Model Making
2019-20 Assorted projects with Leslie Travers
2016-18 Assorted projects with Natasha Jenkins
2017-18 Assorted projects with Chloe Lamford
2018 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Anna Bolena' with Gary McCann
2017-18 Assorted projects with Tom Pye
2016 'The Hairy Ape' with Stewart Laing
2015-16 Assorted projects with Oliver Townsend
2014-15 'Falstaff' and 'Hamlet' with Samal Blak
2015 Assorted projects with Francis O’Connor
2014 'Wozzeck' with Vicki Mortimer, Chicago Lyric Opera
2014 'Seraglio' with Vicki Mortimer, Glyndebourne
2014 'Le Roi Arthus' with Paul Brown, Opéra National de Paris
Workshops
2017 November 23rd
Stages of Production Design at the National Theatre
Co-presenter
Working with designer Natasha Jenkins, I co-presented an evening workshop on the stages of design and lead a model making session with students ages 16-21. Students began with sketches of ideas based on the NT’s production of Everyman, and finished the evening with a complete ‘sketch’ model of their designs.
2017 January 16-26
Set design workshop
Working with Clonter Opera Theatre, I travelled to several schools around Cheshire to assist in delivering set design workshops to 6-10 year olds in groups of 20-95.
My responsibilities included:
- Encouraging and assisting the children to sketch ideas for a scenic backdrop based on a chosen topic
- Helping them to cut out shapes and arrange a composition to be lit and photographed
- Overseeing them to create a 1:25 scale set model with geometric shapes, and recreating it full-scale
- Assessing their finished designs and giving them constructive feedback
February 28- March 3; March 13-16
Costume design workshop
Again working with Clonter Opera, I presented design workshops with groups of 20-60 children.
My responsibilities included:
- Presenting the idea of costume design and explaining the role a designer plays in a production
- Overseeing the children in creating costume design drawing, encouraging them to use critical thinking about character to come up with their designs
- Overseeing the children in cutting out paper patterns to make clothes for mannequins of their designs
- Assessing their finished designs and giving them constructive feedback
EDUCATION
MA Theatre Design, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, UK 2018
BA Interdisciplinary Art, Alfred University, New York, 2013
SKILLS
Scale model making, prop-making, sculpting.
3D draughting and modelling
Hand and digital illustration
Basic sewing, altering, construction.
PROGRAMMES
AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Illustrator, Vectorworks, Microsoft Suite
REFERENCES
Available upon request