Jamie Vartan has worked extensively as a designer in theatre, opera and dance. He studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic and Theatre Design at Central St Martins.
Designs for theatre include, for Landmark Productions : Krapp’s Last Tape ( Project Arts Centre, Dublin / Gaiety, Dublin / Barbican / Adelaide international Arts Festival / Skirball Centre, New York ) ; Bedbound ( Galway International Arts Festival / Olympia, Dublin ) ; Medicine ( Traverse, Edinburgh / GIAF / St Ann’s Warehouse, NYC ) ; Happy Days ( Olympia / Cork Opera House / Birmingham Rep ) ; Audrey, or Sorrow ( Landmark & Abbey Theatre, Dublin ).
Also for Landmark Productions, Galway International Arts Festival & St Ann’s Warehouse, New York : Grief is the Thing with Feathers ( Dublin / New York / Barbican) ; Arlington ( GIAF / Dublin / New York ) ; Ballyturk ( GIAF / Dublin / New York / National Theatre Lyttleton, London ) ; Woyzeck in Winter ( GIAF / Barbican ) & Misterman ( National Theatre Lyttleton, London, Irish Theatre Awards Best Set Design 2011, Evening Standard Best Set Design nomination ).
Other designs for theatre include : The Plough & the Stars, Dublin Gothic, The Playboy of the Western World & Mrs Warren’s Profession ( Abbey Theatre, Dublin ) ; Pale Sister ( Gate Theatre, Dublin ) ; The Tin Soldier ( Theatre Lovett & Gate Theatre, Dublin ) ; The Lost Things ( Banff Arts Centre / Sydney Opera House ) ; Ravens : Spassky vs. Fischer ( Hampstead Theatre ) ; Bondagers (Edinburgh Lyceum) ; Khandan (Royal Court) ; Mass Observation (Almeida) ; Knives in Hens, The Importance of Being Earnest & I am Tiger ( Perth Theatre, Scotland ) ; A Midsummer Night’s Dream ( Theatre Royal, Bath ) ; Have Your Circumstances Changed ? ( Artangel ) ; The Lost Child Trilogy ( David Glass Ensemble ), with residencies in Vietnam, Indonesia, China, the Philippines & Colombia.
Designs for opera include : Ariadne auf Naxos & The Queen of Spades ( La Scala, Milan ) ; Carmen ( Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari ) ; Eugene Onegin (Opera du Rhin, Strasbourg ) ; Falstaff ( Teatro Farnese, Parma & Royal Opera House Muscat ) ; Der Zwerg ( Teatro Comunale di Firenze ) ; L’isola disabitata ( Royal Opera House, London ) ; Ariadne auf Naxos (Salzburg Festspielhaus, Haus für Mozart ) ; Albert Herring & Death in Venice ( Salzburg Landestheater ) ; La Statira ( Teatro di San Carlo, Naples ); Manon Lescaut ( Teatro Regio di Parma, Palau de les Arts Valencia & Bilbao) ; Dead Man Walking ( Oldenburg Staatstheater ) ; La traviata ( Malmö Opera) ; The Pirates of Penzance ( Scottish Opera ) ; May Night ( Garsington ) ; Don Giovanni, Romeo et Juliette ( Varna ) ; Il Pirata and The Saint of Bleecker Street (Opera de Marseille) ; Carmen ( Teatro Lirico di Cagliari & Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Lisbon ) ; Aida ( Cagliari ) ; Cristina di Svezia ( Wexford 2013 ) ; A Village Romeo & Juliet ( Cagliari & Wexford, Irish Theatre Awards Best Set Design 2012 ) ; The Barber of Seville ( Wide Open Opera, Irish Theatre Awards Best Set Design 2016 ) ; Die Blume von Hawaii ( Magdeburg Opernhaus ).
For Landmark Productions & Irish National Opera : The First Child ( GIAF / Dublin Theatre Festival ) ; The Second Violinist ( GIAF / Amsterdam / New York / Barbican ) ; The Last Hotel ( Dublin / ROH London / New York / Luxembourg ) ; Bluebeard’s Castle & Hansel and Gretel ( Irish National Opera ) ; William Tell ( INO / Fribourg ) ; Cosi fan Tutte ( INO ) ; Rigoletto ( INO & Santa Fe Opera ).
Design for dance with choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller includes Requiem for Phoenix Dance Company (Sadlers Wells and UK tour) and Recall ( Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio and UK tour).
Designs for film includes The Last Hotel (Brink Films and Sky Arts).
Exhibitions include Prague Quadrennials 1999, 2007, 2011 & 2019; and World Stage Design 2013 ( Best Set Design Award for Misterman).
