Costume designer Laura Hopkins is an award-winning set and costume designer, working internationally and for three decades in theatre, opera, dance and experimental performance.
She is an associate artist with Imitating the Dog theatre company and Duckie, Purveyors of Progressive Working Class Entertainment.
Since 2018 Laura has been developing her own politically engaged performance work combining formal experiment and popular entertainment.
Theatre designs include: Dr Blood’s Travelling Medicine Show, Night of the Living Dead (Imitating the Dog); Augmented (co-design with Khadija Raza); Invisible Cities – costume (Manchester International Festival); One for Sorrow, The Pass (Royal Court); The Divide (EIF/Old Vic); Troilus and Cressida (The Wooster Group/RSC); Falstaff (ENO/Opera North); The Seagull (Headlong); A Delicate Balance (Almeida); Othello (Frantic Assembly); Black Watch (NTS); The Golden Ass (Shakespeare’s Globe); Look Back in Anger, Crimes of the Heart, You Can’t Take It With You, Too Clever by Half, The Ghost Train (Manchester Royal Exchange).
Career Highlights
Awards include: Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland Award for Best Design (Lanark); TMA Awards for Best Design (Doctor Faustus and Mister Heracles).
