David W Kidd

David’s extensive work worldwide includes theatre, opera, ballet, music events, corporate theatre and commercial pantomime. Dance and opera productions include The Silverlake (ETO), The Seraglio (ETO), Dido and Aeneas (ENO/Unicorn), ETO Digital  Machaut and Josquin, (A) Thread (Jean Abreu Dance Company); Absent Made Present (New Commissions for ROH2 Linbury, Royal Opera House), Peter and the Wolf (European/UK Tour and New York), Secret Garden Ballets (Hatch House, Somerset),  Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Bulgarian National Ballet), Caracalla’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (London and Toronto) and Die Walkuré (Denmark New Opera). Theatre credits include Turn Of The Screw (UK Tour), Bang Bang! (UK Tour), Secret Cinema presents Stranger Things (London), Sweeney Todd (Derby Theatre/Mercury Colchester), Baddies - The Musical (Unicorn Theatre),  The Silver Sword (Sell A Door/ Coventry Belgrade and UK Tour), Martyr (Actors Touring Company), Little Shop Of Horrors (Salisbury); Albion (Bush Theatre, London); Educating Rita, Macbeth (Mercury, Colchester); Grand Guignol (Theatre Royal Plymouth and Southwark Playhouse); Blues In The Night (Hackney Empire); Smallholding (Hightide Festival and Soho Theatre); Bloodshot (UK Tour, Chicago, Canada, Vienna, St James’s Theatre, London), The Pillowman and The Beauty Queen Of Leenane (Leicester Curve); The Sound Of Music (Cork Opera); Mad About The Boy (Unicorn, Young Vic and Bush Theatres); Mother Goose (Hackney Empire). FEN (Finborough/National Theatre Studio), Independent Means (Library Theatre, Manchester), Nostalgia (Theatre Royal, Plymouth), White Boy (Soho Theatre), Resident Alien (New End Theatre), Milestones (Watford Palace Theatre), A Tribute to Siegfried and Roy (London Palladium), Relish (Shoreditch Tramshed), Little Eyolf and On Approval (Jermyn Street), The President’s Holiday (Hampstead Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew and Dick Barton - Special Agent (Nottingham Playhouse). Other recent Unicorn productions include Minotaur, Henry The Fifth, Dr Korczak’s Example, A Winter’s Tale, Hannah and The Velveteen Rabbit. David has lit many productions at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton including God Of Carnage, Woody Allen’s Writer’s Block, Antony & Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, Earth & Sky, The House of Bernarda Alba, The Playboy of the Western World, A Streetcar Named Desire, She Stoops To Conquer, Don Quixote and Three Sisters (2002 TMA Award Best Design). Off Broadway designs include Unsuspecting Susan starring Celia Imrie and Tabloid Caligula. David is an Associate of Iron Shoes, the resident associate company of The Bush Theatre, London.