La bohème 2023 Programme

NICKY SHAW
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER
MATT HASKINS
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Nicky is an international set and
costume designer with Anglo-Irish
nationality. She has designed
productions for many leading
companies in the UK, extensively
in Europe and also South Korea.
Notable work includes Rossini’s La Cenerentola
(Irish National Opera, nominated best production
and best set design, The Irish Times Irish Theatre
Awards); Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (Royal
Danish Opera, winner best opera, Reumart Awards);
Janáček’s Jenůfa (Royal Swedish Opera, Danish
National Opera, Scottish Opera, winner The Renee
Stepham Award for best presentation of touring
theatre, UK Theatre Awards); Massenet’s Don
Quichotte (Den Jyske Opera, winner audience award
and best production award, Stiftidende); Verdi’s
La traviata (Scottish Opera, joint winner The Renee
Stepham Award for best presentation of touring
theatre); and Thomas’s Mignon (Buxton Opera
Festival, nominated for best opera, South Bank Sky
Awards). Her recent work includes TV production
design, AbracadOpera! (Sky Arts/ENO) and
production design for ENO Breathe. Her most recent
INO production, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, directed
by Orpha Phelan, got a nomination for best opera
production at The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards.
Nicky mentors young designers and is a trustee
director of the Society of British Theatre Designers.
Matt is London-based and works
internationally. He designed the
lighting for the Royal Opera House’s
world premiere of Mark-Anthony
Turnage’s Coraline, worked as
associate lighting designer for
The Master and Margarita (Complicité) and concert
lighting designer for the iconic Grace Jones (Royal
Albert Hall). Opera work includes Rossini’s La
Cenerentola and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (Irish
National Opera); Verdi’s La traviata (Israeli Opera)
and Macbeth (Grange Festival); Michael Zev Gordon’s
Raising Icarus (Barber Opera); Verdi’s La traviata
and Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Opera North); Søren
Nils Eichberg’s Glare and Matt Rogers’s The Virtues
of Things (Royal Opera House); Bernstein’s A Quiet
Place (Opera Zuid); Herrmann’s Wuthering Heights
(Opéra national de Lorraine) and Ravi Shankar’s
Sukanya (Royal Festival Hall). His theatre work
includes Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Broadway/West
End/Canada/Australasia tours); Frankenstein (UK
Tour); Miss Saigon (Folketeateret, Oslo); The Empress
(Royal Shakespeare Company); School Girls; Or, The
African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); The
City and The Town (HullTruck/Riksteatern, Sweden);
Biscuits for Breakfast, The Art of Illusion, Mary,
Ravenscourt, Lotus Beauty, The Fever Syndrome, Folk,
Malindadzimu, I & You (Hampstead Theatre); The
Clinic (Almeida); Hakawatis (Shakesperare’s Globe);
Private Peaceful (Nottingham Playhouse/UK tour);
Fair Play (Bush); The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep/
UK tour); Nina (Young Vic/Unity Theatre); Truth and
Reconciliation (Royal Court) and Hobson’s Choice
(Royal Exchange).
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