Hyemi Shin

Set Designer

Biography

Hyemi Shin trained at Hongik University, Seoul and Wimbledon College of Arts, and was winner of the 2011 Linbury Prize. Theatre work includes Solaris (Malthouse Melbourne, Lyceum Edinburgh); The End of Eddy (Unicorn Theatre); The Seagull, Herons, Morning, Desire Under the Elms (costumes), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Secret Theatre’s show 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 (Lyric Hammersmith); Once in a Lifetime (sets), Dirty Butterfly and Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Young Vic) and Rice and The Brink (Orange Tree Theatre). Dance includes New Work New Music (The Royal Ballet); Life’s Witness (ROH/Linbury Studio Theatre); Orpheus Alive and Unearth (National Ballet of Canada); The Kreutzer Sonata (Ballet Moscow); and costumes for Michael Keegan-Dolan’s MÁM and the Irish Times Best Costume Award-winning Swan Lake/Loch na hEala (Dublin Theatre Festival and Sadler’s Wells). Opera includes Wozzeck and Samson et Dalila (ROH, sets) La damnation de Faust (Glyndebourne, sets), The Skating Rink (Garsington Opera, costumes) and The Return of Ulysses (ROH/Roundhouse, sets).

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