Senior Lecturer – BA (Hons) Model Making & Props, BA (Hons) Set Design for Stage & Screen

Qualifications – BA (Hons), PGCE, MA, SBTD, FHEA

Tony’s early career saw him working as a product designer with Pankhurst Design and Development, Fulham, London. Co-designing a range of Theatre Lanterns for TBA Lighting.

Tony moved back to the North East and became the Regional Graphic and Exhibition Designer with ‘Keep Britain Tidy NE’. His work here has included exhibition design, promotional and graphic design. Tony progressed to develop their ‘Theatre in Education’ productions for the promotion of ‘Tidy Britain’, which toured schools in the North East.

This allowed Tony to progress to his primary focus as a Freelance Theatre Designer/Maker. Freelance work includes Theatre Design for countless stage productions, including operas such as Carmen, Madame Butterfly, Louisa Miller, Don Giovanni and Foust.

Tony designed and produced the staging for the world premiere of Bernard J Taylor’s ‘Nosferatu The Vampire’ at the Winter Garden Theatre, Eastbourne. Working with Leeds Youth Opera, he designed the British premier of the Donizetti opera ‘Gianni Di Calais’ and also worked on the Cleveland Youth Opera’s production of ‘The Italian Girl in Algiers’ with Glyndebourne Director Dyved Burne Jones.

Tony’s freelance Model Making includes interactives for Theakston’s Brewery Visitors Center and reproduction Blade Runner Props for the Ridley Scott exhibition in 2016 at ‘The Word’ South Shields. He has produced photographic and TV models for advertising and action props for BBC TV’s Tracy Beaker’ and ‘Byker Grove’.