Sue Willmington: born Scarborough. She gained a BA Hons in Fine Art at Maidstone College of Art and studied Theatre Design at the Motley Theatre Design School.

Recent work.

Orfeo & Euridice at Theater an der Wien directed by Stephen Lawless. Afterlife at Royal National Theatre in London directed by Michael Blakemore. La Rondine at Teatro La Fenice directed by Graham Vick. Ariodante at Halle Opera House in Germany directed by Stephen Lawless. Prigioniero and La Vide Breve at Greek National Opera, Djamileh at Opera National de Lyon and Makropulos Case at English National Opera all directed by Christopher Alden. Embers with Jeremy Irons in London directed by Michael Blakemore. Additional costumes for Phantom the Spectacular in Las Vegas directed by Harold Prince.

Past theatre includes: 

Democracy in West End, London, Broadway, New York and Sydney Theatre Company, Australia. Love in a Wood, The Duchess of Malfi, Richard II, The White Devil, Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Also work at the National Theatre, National Portrait Gallery, Old Vic Theatre, Almeida Theatre, London and the Zurich Schauspielhaus.

Past Opera includes:

Showboat and Boheme at the Royal Albert Hall, both with Francesca Zambello. La Vide Breve, Pagliacci and Djamileh for Opera North with Christopher Alden and Francesca da Rimini with David Pountney – all for the Eight Little Greats season in Leeds. Il Trovatore for Opera Bastille in Paris, Katya Kabanova for Pale Fenice in Venice. Oedipus Rex and La Cleopatra for the Marinsky, St Petersburg, Cappricio at Teatro Regio,Torino, 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 Bregenz Festival, Austria. Also at Opera Houses in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Israel and Russia.