Jon Bausor is an international stage and costume designer for Theatre, Dance and Opera. Based in London, he is an associate artist of the

Royal Shakespeare Company The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs over 1,000 staff and produces around 20 productions a year. The RSC plays regularly in London, St ...

and designed the opening ceremony of the 2012

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Education

Bausor (rhymes with "Chaucer") studied cello and voice at the

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whilst attending

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as a choral scholar. Whilst still at school he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Lucius, in Steven Pimlott's production of ''Julius Caesar'' starring

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. Following an Art foundation course at Exeter College of Art, where he sang as a clerk in the Cathedral choir, Bausor went on to study Music as a choral scholar at

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under the directorship of Edward Higginbottom before training on the

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under

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Career

On completing the course, Bausor was a finalist in the

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for Stage Design, on the committee of which he now sits, and went on to design shows in many of London's fringe theatres, including the

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and

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, as well as designing numerous projects with the director

William Gaskill William "Bill" Gaskill (24 June 1930 – 4 February 2016) was a British theatre director who was "instrumental in creating a new sense of realism in the theatre". Described as "a champion of new writing", he was also noted for his productions of B ...

. Since then Bausor has designed extensively in dance, opera and theatre for companies worldwide including The Royal Opera House,

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, Dublin, Young Vic, Rambert, Royal Court Theatre, Theatre de Complicite and both Finnish and Norwegian National Ballets. He has made regular collaborations with directors including

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, David Farr, David Lan, Sean Holmes, Simon Godwin, Tim Sheader, Matthew Dunster, Walter Sutcliffe, Adrian Osmond,

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, Andrea Miller and Arthur Pita. Notable designs include an immersive submarine space for ''

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'' at the Young Vic, a crashed plane for ''Lord of the Flies'' at the Regents Park Open Air Theatre, ''

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'' (Duke of Yorks/ Arts Theatre, London), and a 2 km long set for ''MAMETZ'' for the National Theatre of Wales for which he won the UK Theatre Award for Best Design As an associate artist of the RSC he has designed numerous productions including Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'', ''King Lear'' and ''The Winter’s Tale'', Harold Pinter's ''Homecoming'' and the entire 2012 ''What Country Friends Is This?'' season. In 2012, Bausor designed the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games in London, directed by Jenny Sealey and Bradley Hemmings, and in 2014 was commissioned to create a kinetic sculpture at the Stoke Mandeville stadium to light the flame for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi. In 2014 he designed the Great North Run Millionth Runner ceremony on the

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, and The James Plays trilogy, a joint production between the

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and

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, written by

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and directed by

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bausor, Jon British costume designers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Choral Scholars of New College, Oxford