Sam Kipling

Sam is from Charley in Lancashire and has graduated in 2008 in Theatre Design from Birmingham City University (BCU). She has collected work experience during a work placement in prop-making for the Rep's 2006 Christmas Production of Raymond Brigg's The Snowman. She designed and constructed the set and make up for Scenodance 2007 -a collaboration with Wolverhampton University and was in charge of set construction and dressing for a film project on the director Sam Peckinpah for which she collaborated with BCU Film students. She was chosen to work as a costume designer on the Birmingham Royal Ballet's Dynamic Dance Project 2007. She designed and made installations for the 2007 Download Festival at which she also appeared as live artist. Sam is especially interested and skilled in prop making, prosthetic make-up, puppet development, set construction and dressing. In the future she hopes to utilise her skills working in television and film production. Sam is particularly inspired by animatronic puppetry replacing the industry's over dependence on CGI.