Ryan Dawson Laight

RYAN DAWSON LAIGHT | Costume Designer

 Set and Costume Design includes The Lightning Thief (The Other Palace); My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Ambassadors Theatre/Garrick Theatre/Turbine Theatre); I Wish (Unicorn Theatre); A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (Gate Theatre/Paines Plough); Wind in The Willows, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Grimm Tales, The Tiger Who Came To Tea (Chichester Festival Theatre); Half-Empty Glasses, The Ultimate Pickle (Paines Plough/Edinburgh/Tour); Just So (Barn Theatre); Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk And The Sheep Have Jumped All The Fences (Belfast International Arts Festival/Big Telly/59E59); Torch Song Trilogy (Turbine Theatre); Duckie (Royal Festival Hall); Black (Unity Theatre Liverpool/Soho Theatre); Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory); Henry VIII (Guildhall); HMS Pinafore, Chess, Blondel, The Mikado (Union Theatre).  Costume Design includes Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); Burlesque: The Musical (Manchester Opera House/Glasgow Theatre Royal); The Creakers (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Southbank Centre); Twelfth Night, La Cage aux Folles (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Wild About You (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); How to Win Against History (Bristol Old Vic).  Ryan was Associate Designer for Creation Theatre where he designed over 25 shows. 

Dance includes For Drew McOnie, Nutcracker (Southbank Centre), Drunk (Leicester Curve/Bridewell); For Gary Clarke Company, Detention (CAST Doncaster), Wasteland (UK Tour), Coal (UK Tour. UK Theatre Award for Achievement in Dance); For Botis Seva, Until We Sleep (Sadler’s Wells/International Tour), Good Youts Walk (UK Tour), BLKDOG (Sadler’s Wells. Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production); For Boy Blue, Blak Whyte Gray (Barbican. Nominated for Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production), REDD (Barbican). 

Awards include WhatsOnStage Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles; nominated for Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles.