British theatre set and costume designer
Christopher Oram, 2018 Christopher Oram is a British theatre set and costume designer .
Background
He trained at the West Sussex College of Art and Design (latterly Northbrook College ).
Early assisting work for designers Anthony Ward and Ian MacNeil , included Assassins Donmar Warehouse , Oliver! London Palladium and An Inspector Calls Machinal National Theatre .
Career
Having designed extensively on the fringe in London, he began a long term creative collaboration with the director Michael Grandage whom he met in 1995 when they first worked together on Arthur Miller's The Last Yankee
Their subsequent professional partnership at the Crucible Theatre , Sheffield, includes As You Like It Victoria Hamilton (also Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith ); A Midsummer Night's Dream Richard III Kenneth Branagh ; Edward II Joseph Fiennes ; Suddenly Last Summer Victoria Hamilton and Diana Rigg (also Albery Theatre ); The Tempest Derek Jacobi (also Old Vic ) and Don Carlos Gielgud Theatre ).
Collaborations at the Donmar Warehouse include Good Charles Dance ; Passion Play Privates on Parade Roger Allam , Caligula Michael Sheen ; The Vortex Merrily We Roll Along Grand Hotel Henry IV Ian McDiarmid , Don Juan in Soho Rhys Ifans , Frost/Nixon Frank Langella and Michael Sheen (also West End and Broadway ), Othello Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan McGregor , Red Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne (which subsequently transferred to the John Golden Theatre , Broadway) and King Lear
Oram designed the four plays of the Donmar Wyndham's season, Ivanov Twelfth Night Madame de Sade Judi Dench , and Hamlet Jude Law (which subsequently transferred to Elsinore castle in Denmark, and to the Broadhurst Theatre , Broadway).
Oram also designed the musicals Guys and Dolls Piccadilly Theatre (also Princess Theatre, Melbourne ) and Evita Adelphi Theatre in London, and on Broadway, as well as the costumes for Kenneth Branagh's film of The Magic Flute .
Other work includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Rob Ashford at the Richard Rodgers Theatre , Broadway), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Jamie Lloyd , Donmar Warehouse), Passion Parade Rob Ashford ); A Streetcar Named Desire Rachel Weisz (dir. Rob Ashford, Donmar Warehouse), A View from the Bridge Ken Stott (dir. Lindsay Posner at the Duke of York's Theatre ), King Lear and The Seagull Ian McKellen (dir. Trevor Nunn , RSC Stratford, London and World Tour), Wolf Hall Bring Up the Bodies Jeremy Herrin ); Summerfolk Stuff Happens Power Danton's Death Man and Superman National Theatre ). Both Red and Parade played subsequent seasons at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Oram was also the season designer of the Michael Grandage Company inaugural season at the Noël Coward Theatre . Privates on Parade Peter and Alice The Cripple of Inishmaan A Midsummer Night's Dream Henry V
His opera work includes Billy Budd Glyndebourne and BAM ) and The Marriage of Figaro Don Giovanni MET ), and Madama Butterfly Houston Grand Opera ).
In 2017/18 he designed set and costume for Disney Theatrical Groups production of Frozen St. James Theatre on 22 March 2018.
Oram is an Artistic Associate on 'Plays at the Garrick' in the forthcoming Kenneth Branagh season in the West End.
He is also a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts , and is currently on the committee of the Linbury Prize for stage design.
During 2016 the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company will present a series of five plays. The director is Rob Ashford, the actor-director Kenneth Branagh and designer Christopher Oram.[1]
