BLACKBIRD
Writer: David Harrower
Director: David Grindley
Set and Costume Designer : Jonathan Fensom
Lighting Designer: Jason Taylor
Sound Designer: Gregory Clarke
Fight Director: Paul Benzing

Jonathan Fensom
Set and Costume Designer

Jonathan is currently designing Happy Now? at the National Theatre and The Homecoming for the Almeida Theatre. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his set design for Journey’s End and the production won the Tony Award for Best Revival.

Theatre productions include: Pygmalion (New York), In The Club (Hampstead Theatre), Love’s Labours Lost (Globe), Big White Fog (Almeida Theatre), Journey’s End (West End, Broadway), Kindertransport (Shared Experience), The Tempest (The Tron Theatre), Charley’s Aunt (Oxford Playhouse), The Faith Healer (The Gate, Dublin and Broadway), Smaller (West End and UK Tour), Burn / Citizenship / Chatroom (National Theatre), God of Hell (Donmar), What the Butler Saw (Hampstead & West End), Some Girls (West End), Duck, Talking to Terrorists (Royal Court, UK Tour), National Anthems (Old Vic), The Lady in the Van (Theatre Royal Bath tour), Twelfth Night (West End), Cloud Nine (Sheffield Crucible), Candide (Oxford Playhouse), The Sugar Syndrome (Royal Court), Breakfast with Emma (Shared Experience), M.A.D., Little Baby Nothing  (Bush Theatre), Small Family Business (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Born Bad,  In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, Abigail’s Party  (Hampstead), Little Shop of Horrors (West Yorkshire Playhouse); My Night With Reg and Dealer’s Choice (Birmingham Repertory), Be My Baby (Soho Theatre Company UK tour), After the Dance, Hay Fever (Oxford Stage Company), The Mentalists (RNT), So Long Life (Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour) Wozzeck directed by Graham Vick (Birmingham Opera and European tour), Spike (Nuffield, Southampton).

Designs for television and film include: tvSSFBM EHKL (Surreal Film), Arena for BBC, and Tomorrow La Scala (BBC dir Francesca Joseph).

Jonathan was Associate Designer on Disney’s The Lion King, which premiered at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway and has subsequently opened worldwide.
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