Dale Ferguson

The Australian designer’s most recent opera work has been with Perth’s West Australian Opera (Iain Grandage’s The Riders) and Opera Australia (Anything Goes). Previous credits include Welsh National Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Boston Lyric Opera (Ariadne auf Naxos), Opera Australia (Eugene Onegin), Cape Town Opera (Otello), and Houston Grand Opera (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). He has also worked extensively for Australian theater companies: Melbourne Theatre Company (25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Weir, Skylight, The Crucible, Top Girls), Belvoir Theatre (The Blind Giant is Dancing, Brothers Wreck, Measure for Measure, Neighbourhood Watch, The Power of Yes), Sydney Theatre Company (Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Summer Rain, The Convicts Opera), and Bell Shakespeare Company (King Lear). Ferguson has worked closely with director Neil Armfield, collaborating on such productions as The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Australia, DVD); Ionesco’s Exit the King (Belvoir Theatre, subsequently on Broadway – Tony nomination for Best Costume Design and Best Scenic Design, Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Set Design); and David Hare’s The Judas Kiss (Toronto, London, Brooklyn Academy of Music). Ferguson received four Green Room Awards and a Helpmann Award for Best Set Design for Melbourne Theatre Company’s August: Osage County.

Previously at Lyric: The Magic Flute (2016|17); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010|11).

Last updated: December 10, 2016