Adrian trained at the Wimbledon School of Art in London and works in both Opera and Theatre in the UK and abroad.
Theatre work includes, Iron (Live
Theatre, Newcastle), IPH...an adaptation of Iphigenia in Aulis by Colin
Teevan (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Welcome to Ramallah (Arcola
Theatre London),Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (Mercury Theatre), The Bay
at Nice/Family Voices (Mercury Theatre), Sondheim’s musical Assassins
with inmates at Ashwell Prison in 2004 (revived at Coldingly Prison in
2005).
He designed Stars in the Morning Sky, and Carol Churchill’s Fen, both for RADA, The Promise, Inside the Firm, A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie and Camino Real, and Ionesco's The Bald Soprano & Genet's The Maids (both at the Meisner Theatre, New York) He has also designed a number of Lorca’s plays following the British premiere of When Five Years Pass which won an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, two productions of Yerma, followed by Blood Wedding and The Shoemakers Wonderful Wife. Other UK premieres include Peter and the Captain, The Inkwell [both BAC] and Inside the Firm [Queens, Hornchurch].
He has also designed plays and musicals in the South East Asia including Blithe Spirit, They’re Playing Our Song, with Lea Salonga in both Singapore and Manila, the Asian premiere of Yasmina Reza’s award winning ART and the world premiere of a musical ‘who-done-it?' A Twist of Fate with the Raffles Hotel in Singapore.
Opera work includes Orfeo Ed Euridice (Minnesota Opera), Il nozze di Figaro (Opera Theatre Company, Dublin), Katya Kabanova (Scottish Opera), The Turn of the Screw (Macedonian National Opera) Die Fledermaus (Scottish Opera), The Vanishing Bridegroom, RSAMD Glasgow, Grange Park Opera’s production of Cosi fan Tutte which also toured the UK, Albert Herring (Aldeburgh Festival), Nabucco and Cosi fan Tutte (Opera West, Scotland), Orlando (Cambridge Handel Opera), Il Seraglio [Opera 80], and the co-design for Il Trovatore for the Bastille Opera in Paris, directed by Francesca Zambello.
Adrian worked closely with the designer
Maria Bjornson on a number of her productions including Phantom of the Opera
and realised the sets for her productions of Les Troyens for
Metropolitan Opera New York and the world premiere of The Little Prince for
Houston Grand Opera in 2003, he returned to Houston to work with the
fashion designer Zandra Rhodes on her new production of Aida, which has
also seen at English National Opera and San Francisco Opera.
Adrian's set designs for Il Trovatore formed part of an exhibition at the Tobin Theatre Museum in Austin,Texas and the design models for Betrayal and The Vanishing Bridegroom are exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London as part of a year long exhibition on Theatre Design.
Future work includes Middleton’s The Tyrant, a new ballet for children to tour the UK, and Elektra for Minnesota Opera