Ryan Dawson Laight

Set & Costume Designer

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Film, TV & Theatre

Agent: Dan Usztan

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Assistant: Isobel Davis (Maternity Cover)

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Film, TV & Theatre

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Ryan is a set and costume designer whose work has been seen across plays, musical theatre and dance. He was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, for which he also won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Costume Design.

Ryan Dawson Laight’s sumptuous costumes shine
The Guardian on Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre)

Ryan Dawson Laight’s setting and costume design are magical
The Stage on I Wish (Unicorn Theatre)

Ryan Dawson Laight’s costumes never miss a chance to dazzle
The Times on La Cage Aux Folles (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre)

The set by Ryan Dawson Laight is a fantasy version of that Midlands living room, where the sideboard contains a bank of spotlights, a chest of drawers represents a stairway to stardom and a big, illuminated version of a TV screen hangs above
Evening Standard on My Son's A Queer (But What Can You Do) (Garrick Theatre)

In Development

Production	Company	Notes
THE FIR TREE 2024	Arts Depot	Dir. Eva Sampson Set & Costume Designer
HENRY VIII 2025	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	Dir. Owen Horsley Set & Costume Designer
MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE 2025	Akram Khan Company/Dance United Yorkshire/Bradford 25	Choreo. Akram Khan Costume Design

Theatre

Production	Company	Notes
THE LIGHTING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL 2024	The Other Palace	Dir. Lizzi Gee Set & Costume Designer
ALADDIN 2024	Cheltenham Everyman	Dir. Samuel Holmes & Nick Winston Costume Designer
THE CREAKERS 2024	Theatre Royal Plymouth/Southbank Centre	Dir. Tom Jackson Greaves Costume Designer
REDLANDS 2024	Chichester Festival Theatre	Dir. Justin Audibert Costume Designer
BURLESQUE: THE MUSICAL 2024	Manchester Opera House/Theatre Royal Glasgow/Adama Entertainment	Dir. Nick Winston Costume Designer
TWELFTH NIGHT 2024	Regent's Park Open Air Theatre	Dir. Owen Horsley Costume Designer
I WISH 2024	Unicorn Theatre	Dir. Rachel Bagshaw Set and Costume Designer Nominated for Off West End Award for Design (Theatre For Young Audiences: Costume)
WILD ABOUT YOU 2024	Theatre Royal Drury Lane	Dir. Nick Winston Costume Designer
THE JUNGLE BOOK 2023	Chichester Festival Theatre	Dir. Matt Hassall Costume Designer
MOTHER GOOSE 2023	Cheltenham Everyman	Dir. Nick Winston & Samuel J Holmes Set and Costume Designer Nominated for UK Pantomime Award for Best Costume Design
NUTCRACKER 2023	Southbank Centre	Dir. Drew McOnie Costume Designer
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES 2023	Regent's Park Open Air Theatre	Dir. Tim Sheader Costume Designer WhatsOnStage Award for Best Costume Design Nominated for Olivier Award for Best Costume Design Nominated for WhatsOnStage Award for Best Musical Revival
NOW AND THEN 2023	English Theatre of Frankfurt	Dir. Natasha Rickman Set and Costume Designer
MY SON'S A QUEER (BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO?) 2023	Ambassadors Theatre/Garrick Theatre	Dir. Luke Sheppard Set and Costume Designer West End transfers Nominated for Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS 2022	Chichester Festival Theatre	Dir. Dale Rooks Costume Designer
FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER IS DRUNK AND THE SHEEP HAVE ALL JUMPED THE FENCES 2022	Belfast International Festival/Big Telly/59E59, NYC	Dir. Zoe Seaton Set and Costume Designer
PINOCCHIO 2021	Chichester Festival Theatre	Dir. Dale Rooks Costume Designer
MY SON'S A QUEER (BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO?) 2021	Turbine Theatre	Dir. Luke Sheppard Set and Costume Designer WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End Production
DEPARTMENT STORY 2021	Belfast International Festival/Big Telly	Dir. Zoe Seaton Set and Costume Designer
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 2020	Chichester Festival Theatre	Dir. Dale Rooks Costume Designer
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND 2019	National Theatre	Dir. Melly Still Associate Costume Designer
THE WIZARD OF OZ 2019	Chichester Festival Theatre	Dir. Lucy Betts Costume Designer
CROSSING LINES 2019	Chichester Festival Theatre	Dir. Daniel Hill Costume Designer
TORCH SONG 2019	Turbine Theatre	Dir. Drew McOnie Set and Costume Designer
SLEEPING BEAUTY 2018	Chichester Festival Theatre	Dir. Dale Rooks Costume Designer
GRIMMS TALES 2017	Chichester Festival Theatre	Dir. Dale Rooks Costume Designer
PETER PAN 2016	Chichester Festival Theatre	Dir. Dale Rooks Costume Designer
A CHRISTMAS CAROL 2015	Chichester Festival Theatre	Dir. Dale Rooks Costume Designer