Jean Chan
For Pentabus: This Land, The Husbands (with Kali Theatre), For Once, Mayfair
Jean studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Graduating in 2008 with a BA Hons Degree in Theatre Design. She went on to work as a resident designer, part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Trainee Design Programme 2008-09. In 2009 she won the Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design. In 2013 Jean was Shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Award in the category ‘Design for Performance’.
Designs include: Ticking (Trafalgar Studios, London); The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG (Dundee Rep); Hedda Gabler (The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Cyrano De Bergerac (The Royal & Derngate and Northern Stage); Mother Courage, Bordergames, Tonypandemonium (National Theatre Wales); Hope Light and Nowhere (Edinburgh Fringe); The Hairy Ape, The Irish Giant, The Seagull (Southwark Playhouse); The Suit (Young Vic); Hamlet YPS (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Garbage King (The Unicorn Theatre); 1984, Alice By Heart (Lyric Hammersmith); I Have a Dream (Polka Theatre); When the Waters Came (Theatre Centre); Why the Lion Danced (Yellow Earth Theatre); The Birthday of the Infanta (Trestle Theatre); The Roman Bath (Arcola Theatre); Caucasian Chalk Circle (Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama).