Professor Pamela Howard

Tobias Hoheisel

Julian Crouch

Judges

The Linbury Biennial is delighted to announce the Designer Judges for 2005:

Professor Pamela Howard is a practising scenographer, director, curator, teacher and writer. Her book, What is Scenography? (Routledge UK/USA), has now been translated into several languages. In June 2005 she directed and designed The Greek Passion at the National Theatre of Northern Greece Opera, Thessaloniki. Also in 2005 she will become the Artistic Director of Oxmarket 2 - a new visual arts and performance complex in Chichester. Her second book Designing Nothing is in preparation.

Tobias Hoheisel is an internationally renowned theatre designer who has designed for many of the most famous theatres and opera houses in the world. He trained at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and now lives in Sussex. He has worked for many companies in theatre and opera, including: Deutsche Staatsoper (Orpheus, Der Freischütz and Griselda), Deutsche Oper, Schillertheater and Schaubühne (first German production of Yasmina Reza’s Art) in Berlin and the Burgtheater (world premiere of Peter Handke’s Die Stunde da wir nichts voneinander wussten) in Vienna. In the UK he has designed for the Royal Opera House (Palestrina and Boulevard Solitude for which he was awarded a Lawrence Olivier Award in 2001 for ‘Best Opera Production’), English National Opera (La Boheme, Tales of Hoffman), the Royal Shakespeare Company (Julius Caesar, Richard III) amongst many others.

Julian Crouch is a founder member and artistic director of Improbable Theatre, a company that has won many awards and acclaim both critically and publicly. Julian recently co-directed and co-designed A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Hamburg and designed Jerry Springer the Opera currently in the West End. Julian also co-directed Shockheaded Peter with Phelim McDermott. In summer 2004 his designs were used for A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum at the National Theatre.