Nick Barnes

A.R.T.: Debut. As Puppetry Designer for Blind Summit: Madame Butterfly, English National Opera, Metropolitan Opera; A Dog’s Heart, English National Opera, Dutch National Opera; Shunkin, Master & Margarita, Complicite; El Gato Con Botas, Tectonic Theatre; On Emotion, Soho Theatre; Faeries, Royal Opera House; His Dark Materials, Birmingam Rep, Leeds Playhouse. As Nick Barnes Puppets: Doctor Dolittle, Music & lyrics Productions; The Lorax, Old Vic; Ariodante, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence/Dutch National Opera; Angels in America (Angel’s wings), National Theatre, Broadway; Running Wild (Associate Designer), Chichester Festival Theatre, Regents Park; David Williams’ The First Hippo on the Moon, Les Enfants Terribles, UK Tour; Mr Poppers Penguins, Kenny Wax Ltd, West End, Broadway; The Little Beasts, The Other Palace; The Jungle Book, Royal & Derngate; Beauty and the Beast, The Butterfly Lion, Chichester Festival Theatre; The Little Prince, Fuel. He has also designed large-scale Firebird and Gnomus puppets for the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, and in 2012 he co-directed the puppetry in Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the London Olympic Games. Education/Training: Hull University (Drama), Slade School of Fine Art (Theatre Design). nickbarnesdesign.co.uk.