biography

Sean Cavanagh is a Graduate of RADA, Central School of Art and Design and St. Martin's School of Art.

He has worked for many theatres throughout the UK and abroad. He was Head of Design for the prestigious Plymouth Theatre Royal for two years prior to the theatre's opening in 1982 and then for the first two years of its operation.

He is a long-standing Artistic Associate and Director of the York-based Riding Lights Theatre Company.

Productions designed include Pickwick for the Hungarian National Theatre in Budapest and Toby Robertson's acclaimed revival (for the first time in 400 years) of Shakespeare's Edward III, seen at the Cambridge and Taormina Festivals.

Premieres include Christopher Neame's adaption of Graham Greene's Monsignor Quixote, Robin Hawdon's adaption of The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis, Jeremy Brook's translations of Ibsen's Enemy of the People and Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, and the World Premiere in Singapore of Judah Ben-Hur - The Musical.

Touring productions include M. Butterfly, Outside Edge - The Musical, The Sound of Fury, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dancing in the Streets, Rat Pack and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (now in its 8th year).

He has also recently designed a number of multimedia events, including The Rock in a huge warehouse on the Bay, San Francisco and Rock Me Amadeus in the Hofburg Palace, Vienna.

For Riding Lights he has designed many productions, including Paul Burbridge's stage adaption of Three Men in a Boat, Friargate Theatre's opening production of The Alchemist, the premieres of the musical, Dick Turpin and Augustus Carp, by himself and the acclaimed London productions of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Frisch's The Fire Raisers.

West End credits include the settings for The Tempest (Wyndham's Theatre), Sherlock Holmes - The Musical (Cambridge Theatre), Of Mice and Men (Mermaid Theatre), Never the Sinner (Playhouse Theatre), Treasure Island (Mermaid Theatre), The Miracle Worker (Comedy Theatre), In Praise of Love (Apollo Theatre), The Roy Orbison Story (Whitehall Theatre), The Aspern Papers (Wyndham's Theatre), Stepping Out - The Musical (Alberry Theatre) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (New London).

Sean currently has two shows in the West End, The Rat Pack (Savoy Theatre) and Dancing in the Streets (Aldwych Theatre).