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Edoardo Lelli

Theatre Design MA Student


Biography

Originally trained in architecture and interior design at Politecnico di Milano, Edoardo has designed projects for theatre, opera and fashion, and has developed a multidisciplinary approach to team relationship and storytelling. Credits include set, props design for Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Bristol Old Vic – cancelled); production design for Love Song (The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol – digital performance); a production design proposal for The Cunning Little Vixen (ROH – project) and costume design for Her Naked Skin (Circomedia, Bristol); design for period tailoring projects and La Traviata (BOVTS-project). Edoardo has also assisted Opera designer Robert Innes Hopkins in Der Fledermaus (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Saint Louis). He also has a range of experience in portrait painting, technical drawings and model making.

It was always stressed that the contacts you make during your training are incredibly important, and your classmates are likely to end up being on set alongside you in the future. After working with a director of photography on one of the School’s short films, I was invited to work on a project with him outside of Bristol - proving that the professionals we meet via the School, may one day give us a call to action! Muir McFadden, Technical Graduate