Edward Lidster

Set / Costume / Installation / Fashion

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Curriculum Vitae

Theatre and Ballet

Current:

Production Design for forthcoming new musical, working title
"Dance Map of Latin America"
Directed by Fernando Montano and premiering in London 2023

Midlife Cowboy
Pleasance Theatre, Main House, September and October 2019
Set and Costume Designer

A new musical comedy drama written by comedian and writer Tony Hawks

Fernando Montano and Friends
Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, July 18th 2019
Production Designer

A charity fundraiser featuring ballet, opera and classical music with Royal Ballet Soloist Fernando Montano and the ENO’s Justina Gringyte. Raising funds for the Marine Conservation Society.

Fernando Montano and Friends
Teatro Olimpico ,Vicenza, August 2016
Costume design for Fernando’s performance of ‘Julius Caesar’

Fernando Montano and Friends
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, September 2015
Costume design for Fernando’s performance of ‘Les Bourgeois’

An Evening of Dance
The Place, London Contemporary Dance School, November 2015
Costume design for Fernando’s performance of ‘Les Bourgeois’ when he represented the Royal Ballet

Midlife Cowboy
Lyric Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, April 2016
Prop design

Charity read and sing through with Tony Hawks, Ben Miller, Jack Dee, Doon Mackichan and Alistair McGowan

The Tiniest Ballet in the World
Le Peep Boutique, December 2014
Design Assistant to Elizabeth Emanuel

Piccadilly Revisited
The Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, April 2010
Production Designer for the accompanying film backdrop to the performance
Director David Tse Ka-Shing

Piccadilly Revisited
Hong Kong City Hall for the Hong Kong Arts Festival, February 2011
Production Designer for the accompanying film backdrop to the performance

The Man in the Moon
The Albany, Deptford, February 2009
Concept designer/ Illustrator
Director Hanah Pantin

The first staging of the children’s puppet play written by Enda Walsh

Shooting Clouds
Union Theatre, October and November 2008
Set and Costume Designer
Director Arnaud Mugglestone

The Muse
Pleasance Theatre, Studio, May 2008
Set and Costume Designer
Director Sam Donovan

Angel
Pleasance Theatre, Studio, May 2008
Set and Costume Designer
Director George Turvey

Point Blank Hotel
Pleasance Theatre, Studio, November 2007
Set and Costume Designer
Director Anna Stewart

A Karaoke Wedding
Union Theatre, April 2007
Set and Costume Designer (with Romy Strubel)
Director Gabby Vautier

Underneath The Lintel
The Duchess Theatre, July 2007
Design Assistant to Neil Patel
Director Maria Mileaf

Little Shop of Horrors
The Menier Chocolate Factory, October and November 2006
Design Assistant to David Farley
Director Mathew White

 

Film and Television

Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
Feature film based on the best selling book
UK production designer, set and costume, May to July 2010
Directed by Mikolaj Jaroszewicz and Tony Hawks

Filmed in multiple locations around London and featuring Tony Hawks, Angus Deayton, Morwenna Banks and Laura Solon

Hounded
BBC TV, September and October 2009
Art Department Assistant,

A Situation (Short)
Set and Costume Designer
June and July 2013
Director Shan Ng

My Half Night with Him (Short)
Set and Costume Designer
March and April 2012
Director Shan Ng

May Wong
Production Designer
September to November 2009
Director Shan Ng

Narcissus Song
Music video for Tania Carvalho
Production Designer
August to October 2011
Director Shan Ng

 

 

Fashion and Graphics

Alexander McQueen
Fashion Design Assistant to Alexander McQueen
Autumn - Winter 2002 -3

Elizabeth Emanuel
Fashion Design Assistant to Elizabeth Emanuel
October 2014 - April 2016

Working as design assistant to Elizabeth Emanuel in her Maida Vale studio during the re-launch of her label and assisting with a number of fashion shows and presentations including events at The Hippodrome Theatre, The R.A.C. Club in Pall Mall and A Ballet Installation at Le Peep Boutique in Mayfair.

Fashion Designer and Dressmaker
Wedding Dress, December 2016 – May 2017
A private commission to restore and reconstruct a 1950’s lace wedding dress and to design and make the underskirt and bodice.

Fashion Designer and Dressmaker
Private commission
Wedding Dress design/alteration March 2020

Fashion Designer
2012 Olympic Inspired Fashion Collection in collaboration with Colin Jackson Athlete (Loungewear designs for proposed collection for Debenhams)

Graphics

The Philharmonia Orchestra
Graphic design artwork adaption for The Philharmonia Orchestra’s “Music Lab”
(Visuals applied to side of truck)

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