CV
SARAH OXLEY
DESIGNER, ART DIRECTOR, SET DECORATOR, BUYER
CONTACT
Email: pitstopcreations@icloud.com
WEBSITE
https://www.pitstopcreations.com
SKILLS
Works well under pressure
Organised and efficient
Working to tight budgets and time deadlines
Project management
Friendly team player
Dedicated and hardworking
Excellent listening and communication skills
Set dressing
Sourcing props and costumes
Prop making
Model making
Scenic painting
Sculpting
Running workshops
PPL Insurance
Full clean driving license
Enhanced DBS
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EDUCATION
BA(Hons) Theatre Design BTEC Foundation Art & Design
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REFERENCES
Available upon request
TV & FILM
Production Buyer/Set Decorator - G’Wed - Golden Path Productions, ITVX
Production Designer - The Big Proud Party Agency - AlleyCats TV, BBC3
Costume Designer/HOD - Small World Pilot & Series 1&2 - Mutt & Jeff Pictures, BSL Zone
Production Designer - Vanishing Point - BYMT & BAFTA-nominated Gamelab - filmed in various locations across Plymouth
Art Director/Stage Manager - Sam and Mark’s Big Friday Windup - CBBC - designing set pieces, managing art department, set/prop construction, ordering materials, producing technical drawings, time & budget management, adapting to quickly changing situations, continuity, filmed in front of live audience
Art Director/ Prop Buyer - Mrs Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room - Black Lake Films - ensuring designer’s vision is maintained, sourcing props, set dressing, painting and continuity
Art Director - Jack and the Beanstalk - CBeebies Pantomime - sourcing and constructing props, set dressing, managing and co-ordinating art department.
Costume Designer/Maker - Chess piece costume Jamie Johnson - CBBC
Scenic Painter - Swashbuckle - CBeebies - maintaining the set, constructing and painting running props often to very short deadlines.
Scenic Painter - Ugly Duckling - CBeebies & Royal Northern Ballet - painting set to the designer’s specification, scaling up from designer’s model and discussions with the designer.
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THEATRE
Production Designer/Project Manager - Hamlet, Pericles, King John, A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 2019-2023 MAEI Cooperative Academy Theatre, Manchester
Production Designer - Bread Boy - BYMT, Lyric Theatre, Belfast 2022
Production Designer - White Bear Lake - BYMT 2022 Theatre Royal Plymouth
Set Designer/Scenic Artist/Puppet Maker - Big Fish - 2022 Mid Cheshire Musical Theatre Company, Memorial Court Northwich, Cheshire
Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Whistle Down the Wind - On The Mark Productions, Christleton High School, Cheshire 2022
Artist/Scenic Painter - Who Cares? - 2022 Enact Touring productions
Production Designer - Peter Pan - BYMT 2021 Powderham Castle, Devon
Production Designer - White Bear Lake - BYMT 2021 Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury Performance cancelled due to COVID,
Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Ghost - Knutsford Musical Theatre Company 2019 Memorial Court Northwich, Cheshire
Production Designer - Peter Pan - BYMT 2019 Theatre Royal Margate, Kent
Production Designer - I Spy with My Little Eye - The People’s Theatre Company, National Tours
Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Snow White, Aladdin, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington - Tip Top Productions, The Gateway Theatre, Chester
Set Designer/Scenic Artist - My Fair Lady - Tip Top Productions, Theatre Clwyd
Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Sister Act - On The Mark Productions, Christleton High School, Cheshire 2019
Production Designer/Project Manager - A Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, The Tempest, Henry V, The Trenches, The Causes of WW1, Titanic Aftermath, Titanic - 2010-2018 MAEI site specific/promenade, Victoria Baths, Manchester
Production Designer - Help! Get Me Out of This Musical - BYMT 2018 South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire
Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Honk - Mid Cheshire Musical Theatre Company, The Grange Theatre, Cheshire 2018
Scenic Artist - Our Day Out - Tip Top Productions, Theatre Clwyd 2017
Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Jungle Book, Our House, Dracula Spectacular, Storm
Boy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Escape Committee, Coram Boy and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - Queens College, Taunton
Production Designer - What I Go to School For (Busted Musical) - 2016 BYMT
Set Designer/Head Scenic Artist - The Nutcracker - Northern Ballet School, Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester 2014
Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Xtremism, Spread by the sWord - Arakan Creative, touring productions
Costume Designer - Treasure Island, Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream - Oddsocks Theatre Company, national tour
Production Designer - Stage Premier of All Creatures Great and Small - Durham Gala Theatre
Production Designer - Crying in the Chapel, Fair - Fink On Theatre, Contact Theatre, Manchester
Production Designer/Project Manager - The Tudors - 2012 MAEI outdoor & indoor promenade production, Ordsall Hall, Salford
Production Designer - The Comedy of Errors - Touring South East UK
Set Designer - Be My Baby - Durham Gala Theatre
Costume Designer/Maker - Slavery, The Weaver’s Tale, The English Civil War, Marie Antoinette - MAEI, Manchester Library Theatre, Contact Theatre, Manchester
Set Designer/Artist - The Wiz, West Side Story, Oliver! - Sheffield Children’s Festival, The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Production Designer - Don Perlimplin, Pilgrim’s Progress, The Shoe Maker’s Prodigious Wife - Guildford School of Acting
Production Designer/Stage Manager/Puppet Creator - Wind in the Willows, Scrooge, The Borrowers - Jakes Ladder Theatre Company, South West UK tour & Tunbridge Wells
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EVENTS & COMMUNITY
Artist/Maker - Manchester Day Parade 2011 - 2022, Youth Commonwealth Games, Little Hulton Carnival - Walk the Plank - outdoor events, working with schools, youth and community groups to transform their ideas into achievable and amazing projects, running workshops, encouraging and bringing out creativity, managing individual projects, ensuring practicality and durability.
Set Dresser - Camp & Furnace, Liverpool 2021, 2022
Designer - Cast The Light, Diwali 2021 - Walk the Plank, Bolton, Oldham, Bury, Tameside
Designer - The Magic Shawl, Holi 2021, Walk the Plank, Filmed in Manchester
Designer - The Magic of Sanjeevani - Manchester Dashehra Diwali Mela, Walk the Plank, Albert Square, Manchester City centre
Artist - Spellbound Rama & Sita, Walk The Plank, Platt Fields Park, Manchester
Production Designer & Project Coordinator - The Ugh! Show, Superbeasts, Summer Show - Longleat Safari & Adventure Park designing and managing production of sets, props and costumes, interpreting client’s needs and fulfilling the brief, ensuring everything is safe and durable, carrying out risk assessments, managing budget.
Artist designing and working with children with special needs to produce props, art pieces and costumes - various productions -New Bridge School, Manchester
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MAKER, SCULPTOR & PAINTER
Creating various props, puppets and costumes using a wide variety of skills, techniques and materials, assessing which will give the best results to achieve excellent standards for high profile clients including sculpting heads for BBC’s Tweenies theatre tour and Children in Need’s Pudsey Bear among many others for theatre, holiday parks, tours, events, TV and films.
Scenic Artist - painting floors, clothes, gauzes, scenery and props, scaling up from designer’s model for various productions including BBC, CBeebies, CragRats, London Bubble Theatre Company, Snap Theatre Company, Costumes with Character, Frenzy Creative, Woburn Safari Park, Longleat, Spearfish, Splinter Scenery, Take 1 Scenic Services, Theme Traders, Hampstead Theatre and creating ‘the blue moon’ for Manchester City FC store opening in Manchester to name a few.
Nick Tiernan
Standby Props, Art Department & Prop Maker
CONTACT
Email: flailgray@yahoo.co.uk
WEBSITE
https://www.pitstopcreations.com
SKILLS
Working to tight budgets and time deadlines
Team management
Works well under pressure
Friendly team player
H&S/Risk assessment
Site management
Carpentry & set building
Set dressing
Art Department
Prop making
Sculpting
Running workshops
PPL Insurance
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EDUCATION
HETV & Film Standby Art Department Dressing For Camera run by Set Etiquette/ScreenSkills
REFERENCES
Available upon request
TV & Film
Standby Props - G'Wed - Golden Path Productions ITV X
Standby Props/Art Department - The Big Proud Party Agency - AlleyCats TV BBC3, included set construction and painting
Senior Art Department/Standby Props - Small World Series 1&2 - Mutt & Jeff Pictures BSL Zone
Set/Prop Maker - Toby’s Travelling Circus - Take 1 Scenic, Channel 5 creating to scale scenery and props, highly accurate and detailed for TV animation
Theatre
Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - Hamlet, Pericles, King John, A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 2019-2023 MAEI Cooperative Academy Theatre, Manchester
Senior Set Builder/Instillation- Ghost - The Grange Theatre, Cheshire 2023
Prop Creator - Pinocchio, Hull Truck Theatre
Prop Creator/Practical Effects - Matilda - On The Mark Productions, Christleton High School, Cheshire, 2022
Head of Set Production - Who Cares? - 2022 Enact Touring productions
Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - Big Fish - 2022 Mid Cheshire Theatre Company, Memorial Court Northwich, Cheshire
Head of Set Production/Instillation - Whistle Down the Wind - On The Mark Productions, Christleton High School, Cheshire 2022
Senior Set Builder/Instillation - Railway Children - The Grange Theatre, Cheshire
Head of Set Production/Instillation - Peter Pan - BYMT 2021 Powderham Castle, Devon
Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props/Practical Effects - Ghost - Knutsford Musical Theatre Company 2019 Memorial Court Northwich, Cheshire
Head of Set Production - Peter Pan - BYMT 2019 Theatre Royal Margate, Kent
Head of Set Production- I Spy with My Little Eye - The People’s Theatre Company, National Tours
Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props/Practical Effects - Snow White, Aladdin, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington - Tip Top Productions, The Gateway Theatre, Chester
Senior Set Builder/Instillation - Legally Blonde - The Grange Theatre, Cheshire 2018
Head of Set Production/Instillation - My Fair Lady - Tip Top Productions, Theatre Clwyd
Head of Set Production/Instillation - Sister Act - On The Mark Productions, Christleton High School, Cheshire 2019
Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - A Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, The Tempest, Henry V, The Trenches, The Causes of WW1, Titanic Aftermath - 2011-2018 MAEI, site specific/promenade, Victoria Baths, Manchester
Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - Honk - Mid Cheshire Musical Theatre Company, The Grange Theatre, Cheshire 2018
Head of Set Production/Instillation/Puppet Creator - Jungle Book, Our House, Dracula Spectacular, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Escape Committee, Coram Boy and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - Queens College, Taunton
Head of Set Production/Instillation - Edge Hill University
Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - The Nutcracker - Northern Ballet School, Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester 2014
Head of Set Production/Instillation - Spread by the sWord - Arakan Creative, touring productions
Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - The Tudors - 2012 MAEI outdoor & indoor promenade production, Ordsall Hall, Salford
Events & Community
Site Manager -various large scale events - Profound Decisions, various outdoor locations, involving running large teams of crew and volunteers, logistics, budgets, H&S and carrying out risk assessments
Carpenter/Crew - Spellbound Rama & Sita, Walk The Plank, Platt Fields Park, Manchester, outdoor site specific production
Carpenter/Prop Maker - Manchester Day 2011 - 2022, Youth Commonwealth Games - Walk The Plank
Set Dresser - Camp & Furnace, Liverpool 2021, 2022
Prop Master - Cast The Light, Diwali 2021 - Walk the Plank, Bolton, Oldham, Bury, Tameside
Prop Master - The Magic Shawl, Holi 2021, Walk the Plank, Filmed in Manchester
Gardener/Maintenance - working with community and young people for the charity Roots & Boots
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Artist, Maker, Sculptor & Lecturer
Guest Lecturer in Special Effects at Chester Art College
Private Commissions - Variety of weird and wonderful things including dragon wings, bone armour, horns, various weapons, armour and costumes
Maker - character costumes - Frenzy Creative
LARP Weapons creator - Mike Light Armouries