Calendar Girls - Robert Jones biography

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Designer

Training: Central School of Art and Design.

Theatre includes: in the West End, Rock 'n' Roll (and Broadway), A Voyage Round My Father, Heroes (and Los Angeles), The Sound of Music (and Toronto), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, When We Are Married, Lautrec, Dance of Death (and Sydney), Jolson (and Toronto, Sydney and USA tour), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Ragtime and The Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy. RSC: Pentecost, The Herbal Bed, Jubilee, Cyrano de Bergerac, Henry VIII (Olivier Award nomination), Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter's Tale (Olivier Award nomination), Sejanus, Othello, Eastward Ho!, Venus and Adonis and Hamlet. NT: Look Back in Anger, The Playboy of the Western World and Noises Off (and West End, UK tour and Broadway). Also, Getting Attention (Royal Court), The Secret Rapture (Los Angeles), Marty (Boston), The Mercy Seat, The Late Henry Moss and There Came a Gypsy Riding (Almeida), Uncle Vanya and The Magistrate (Manchester Royal Exchange), Saturday, Sunday ,Monday, The Water Babies, When We Are Married, The Music Man, Cyrano de Bergerac and Hay Fever (Chichester), Dancing at Lughnasa (Gate, Dublin), Lobby Hero and Divas (Donmar Warehouse), extensive designs for Hampstead and the Bush, and UK tours of Aspects of Love and Rebecca.

Opera includes: Der Rosenkavalier (Wuppertal), The Elixir of Love, On the Town (ENO and Châtelet), Poppea (Paris, Strasbourg, Berlin), Manon Lescaut (Göteborg), Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne, Lille, Chicago) and Don Carlo (Frankfurt). Future credits include: Anna Bolena and Giulio Cesare (Metropolitan Opera, New York) and Tristan and Isolde (Tokyo).