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Will Duke

video designer

About this Artist

Will Duke is a video designer and visual artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the U.K. and internationally.

Dance and opera credits include Orlando (Wiener Staatsoper); Giulio Cesare (Teatro alla Scala, Milan); Idomeneo (Teatro Real, Madrid); Breaking the Waves (Scottish Opera); The Rake’s Progress (The Stanislavski and Nemirovich- Danchenko Theater, Moscow); Die Tote Stadt (Komische Oper, Berlin); The Rake’s Progress (Dutch National Opera and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence); The Tempest (Comédie-Française); Germania (Opéra de Lyon); Goat (Rambert); Snow Maiden (Opera North); and Simplicius Simplicissimus (Independent Opera, Sadler’s Wells).

Theater credits include The Cherry Orchard (International Theater Amsterdam); Grief Is The Thing With Feathers (Barbican and St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York); The Convert (Young Vic); I’m a Phoenix, Bitch (Battersea Arts Centre); The Encounter (Complicité; Barbican, international tour, and Broadway); Wings (Young Vic); Pygmalion (Headlong and West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Narrow World (with Melanie Wilson and The British Council); The Snow Queen (Bristol Old Vic); Beware of Pity (Complicité and Schaubühne, Berlin); Queen Anne (RSC); Neverland (Battersea Arts Centre and tour); Above: A Festival of Imaginary Events for Rooftops in Tehran and London (with Melanie Wilson, Forest Fringe and The British Council, Edinburgh Fringe); The Edge (Transport; New Wolsey Theatre and U.K. tour); Mountaineering (non zero one, Roundhouse, and Salisbury Studio); Dusk (Fevered Sleep, Young Vic, and U.K. tour); and 20th Century Boy (Belgrade Theatre, New Wolsey Theatre, and U.K. tour)

Will is the recipient of the 2016 Knights of Illumination Award for Best Projection Design for his work on The Encounter.

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