Liz Johnson

Liz is based in the The Midlands and completed her degree in Theatre Design at the Birmingham Institute for Art and Design, where her experience covered many aspects of performance and event. She is both a set and costume designer and has particular experience in prop making and sourcing for both theatre and film.

She has been a design assistant, scenic painter and prop maker for the Birmingham School of Acting Winter Season 2006 at the Crecent Theatre, Birmingham, which included Of Mice and Men (Dir. Dominic Colenso), The Flies (Dir. Rebecca Atkinso-Lord) and Head-Rot Holiday (Dir. Abigail Anderson), and she also took part in the collaborative design of a short film based on the life of Walt Disney, for which she also sourced costumes and made props. She was a contributor towards the collaborative design of a contemporary dance performance of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Patrick Centre in the Birmingham Hippodrome, for which she also took part in the construction and paint-effects team for a submarine themed water-misting machine, which was commissioned by Live Nation for the Download Festival 2007.

Liz has a particular interest in site-specific work, which influenced her decision to design, for her final major project, a theatre event that incorporated the performance of two Oscar Wilde plays at a stately home in Staffordshire. 

She enjoys taking part in both the design process and practical work involved in staging a performance, and she hopes to spend more time working in various types of theatre and branching into film and television.