Joanna Scotcher

Production Designer | Theatre & Live Arts
Olivier Award Winner 2020

[Joanna Scotcher @JoannaScotcher]

@MrsMcGreeno Thanks Rachel! So pleased you liked it!

[Joanna Scotcher @JoannaScotcher]

@ChrisBushWrites Fabulous babe. Rooting for you! X

[AHA Creatives @ahacreatives]

"@JoannaScotcher's inspired set which revolves around Ryan Day’s lighting design... sets are built around plays of light with reconfigured scenes emerging out of momentary blackness" - lovely 4* review for the @royalcourt's Black Superhero! https://t.co/5QI9kRIiwK

[Royal Court @royalcourt]

★★★★ “Robust and energetic - a seductive debut.” Guardian

Here’s a first look at the “thrilling and spicily funny” (Metro) #BLACKSUPERHERO by Danny Lee Wynter.

📸Johan Persson

[Fantastically Great Women the Musical @FantasticallyGW]

Congratulations to our amazing team on this incredible achievement! We are so proud of everyone involved in creating this show. Thank you @uk_theatre!

[Joanna Scotcher @JoannaScotcher]

@madewithstring @FantasticallyGW @stratfordeast @ChrisBushWrites Thrilled you both enjoyed it! @madewithstring

[AHA Creatives @ahacreatives]

"This is a high-voltage show with great charisma" - *Fantastic* review for Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, designed by @JoannaScotcher https://t.co/DgQgpgetLz

[Anna Geary @AnnaGearyTV]

@itvlondon 6.45 pm 📺
@rahpetherbridge & her little boy must leave their home by end of the month & have nowhere to go.
Rah has come up against barriers to private rental options so is selling this print for £325K (the same price as her landlord selling their home for) 👇🏻

[Annette Mees @AnnetteMees]

Our beautiful hyper reality opera Current Rising won an award the international VR awards 💎
Congratulations to the brilliant team at @figmentprods & the extraordinary creative team including @JoannaScotcher @Sam_Fernando_ @MelanieWilson14 & Netia Jones

[AIXR XR Awards @VRAwards]

The Out-of-home VR Entertainment of the Year winner of 2021 is...

🎉 🏆 | Current, Rising by @figmentprods! Congratualtions!

#VRA21 ▶️: https://t.co/LcGIksE7cd

[AHA Creatives @ahacreatives]

4* from @TimeOutLondon for @AlmeidaTheatre's The Tragedy of Macbeth, costume design by @JoannaScotcher https://t.co/fgyrByFXhS

[Annette Mees @AnnetteMees]

For anyone who wants to read more in-depth about the making of Current Rising; this is a great article with contributions from designer @JoannaScotcher and sound designer @dsoundart on working with @figment and making theatrical work using @UnrealEngine https://t.co/NeL6yNpp24

[Royal Ballet and Opera @rbo_org]

🥽 'Bold, innovative and exciting — this is exactly what London’s arts institutions should be doing'

@ESCulture reviews @TheRoyalOpera's 'Current, Rising', the world's first hyperreality opera

https://t.co/DnSpmhGdlo

#RoyalOperaHouse

[A Younger Theatre @ayoungertheatre]

Review: Current, Rising @RoyalOperaHouse
★★★★★ "I cannot recommend Current, Rising enough. For just 15 minutes I am utterly transported to a different realm; I escape into a fantasy that offers me respite from reality." https://t.co/WYlmXS1dT4

[Standard Culture @ESCulture]

Bold, innovative and exciting — this is exactly what London’s arts institutions should be doing ⭐⭐⭐⭐ @RoyalOperaHouse
https://t.co/eZcqssvXFi

[Joanna Scotcher @JoannaScotcher]

Sketch to set to CG scene 1 storyboard : VR process work for Current Rising ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “weird and wonderful” THE STAGE @ Royal Opera House https://t.co/oU0TBFu89c

[Joanna Scotcher @JoannaScotcher]

Phew! Super proud of this one - "A terrifically trippy opera experience Bold, innovative and exciting — this is exactly what London’s arts institutions should be doing" https://t.co/WW3tERcCqZ

[Joanna Scotcher @JoannaScotcher]

Current Rising – The world's first hyper reality opera & my first step into CGI direction & design. A beautiful team of fearless creatives pulled this together over 3 lockdowns - Delighted it's FINALLY OPEN!
https://t.co/hqRo4MOT7h via @YouTube

[Joanna Scotcher @JoannaScotcher]

‘Anything could happen’: inside the world’s first virtual reality opera - Design & CGI direction debut @RoyalOperaHouse - come see what we made... https://t.co/uXDZLPVBYt

[Shakespeare’s Globe @The_Globe]

@NationalTheatre Oooof, so so many. But @JoannaScotcher's design for #Emilia was 🔥💙. The thrust stage reaching out into the Yard (like a lovely set of arms embracing our Groundlings), an ⭕ of books, the red books slowly being replaced by blue books, and the beautiful Elizabethan costumes...