Our People
Alyson Cummins
Set & costume design includes: The Night Alive, Lyric Belfast & DTF; I Know All the Secrets in My World, Tiata Fahodzi; The Wishmaker, Bernie Grant Arts Centre (Haringey Shed); Pentecost, Lyric Belfast – winner best set design Irish Times Theatre Awards 2015; Be Infants in Evil, Druid; Summertime, Tinderbox; It’s a Family Affair (We’ll Settle it Ourselves…), Sherman Cymru; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Company at Lowry Salford; Mixed Marriage, Lyric theatre Belfast; Before it Rains, Bristol Old Vic & Sherman Cymru; Pornography, Waking Exploits; Pigeon, Carpet theatre; Ruben Guthrie, Iron Bark; How the World Began, Arcola theatre (Tom Atkins & Out of Joint); Hamlet, Second Age; Colleen Bawn, Project/Civic/Bedrock; Serious Money and Dying City, Rough Magic (AIB SEEDS); Extremities, Spark to a Flame; Crosswired, East London dance festival; The Trials of Brother Jero; Through a Film Darkly, Arambe; Ya Get Me, Old Vic education dept.
Set design includes: For the Abbey theatre: Heartbreak House; The Risen People; Quietly; Perve and No Escape. The Trailer of Bridget Dinnigan, ITM; Off Plan, Project arts centre (RAW).
Associate designer for Rae Smith: The Prince of the Pagodas Birmingham Royal Ballet; Rite of Spring & Petrushka, Fabulous Beast. Design associate for Es Devlin: Les Troyens at La Scala (Royal Opera House)
Alyson studied architecture at UCD and trained at Motley. She was a finalist in the Linbury biennial prize for stage design 2007.