Iain Aitken
Set Designer
Background: Based in Auckland. Began design career at Theatre Corporate in 1977. Received Arts Council Grant in 1981, enabling study in Europe and the United States. Head of Design at Mercury Theatre, 1982. Freelance designer in Toronto and later New York, 1985; since then has been freelancing for film, television and commercial design
OA repertoire: Falstaff
Other Companies: Metamorphosis, The Seagull (Theatre Corporate); The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Turn of the Screw (National Opera of NZ); Chicago, Manon Lescaut, The Sound of Music, A View from the Bridge, M. Butterfly, A Streetcar Named Desire (Mercury Theatre); Hysteria (MTC); The Threepenny Opera (STC); The Flying Dutchman, The Magic Flute (Auckland Opera); Falstaff (State Opera of SA). Exhibitions: Work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Theatre, London (1981) and the Prague Quadrenniale (1991)