Sue Willmington: born Scarborough. Studied Fine Art at Maidstone College of Art and Theatre Design at the Motley Theatre Design School.

Opera work.

Norma at Opera North, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Makropulos Case at English National Opera. Il Prigioniero and La Vide Breve at Greek National Opera and Opera North. Djamileh at Opera National de Lyon and Opera North, all directed by Christopher Alden. Der Rosenkavalier at the Bolshoi Theatre, Faust at Santa Fe Opera Festival and Orfeo & Euridice at Theater an der Wien all directed by Stephen Lawless. Carmen at the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing directed by Francesca Zambello. La Rondine at La Fenice directed by Graham Vick. Additional costumes for Phantom, The Spectacular in Las Vegas directed by Harold Prince. 

Past theatre includes: 

Afterlife at Royal National Theatre. Embers at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Democracy at the Royal National Theatre and New York and Sydney. Love in a Wood, The Duchess of Malfi, Don Carlos, Richard II, The White Devil, Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure at the Royal Shakespeare Company.. 

Past Opera includes:

Ariodante at Halle Opera House in Germany. Showboat and Boheme at the Royal Albert Hall. La Vide Breve, Francesca da Rimini, Pagliacci and Djamileh for Opera North. Il Trovatore for Opera Bastille in Paris, Katya Kabanova at La Fenice in Venice. Oedipus Rex and La Cleopatra in Graz and the Marinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Capricio at Teatro Regio in Turin. Die Schweigsame Frau, Don Carlos and La Fancuilla del West for Zurich Opera, Switzerland. La Clemenza di Titio for Dallas Opera and Royal Opera House, London. Porgy and Bess, Fidelio and Nabucco on the lake stage at the Bregenz Festival, Austria.