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Mydd Pharo
Designer - Director - Visual Dramaturg for Theatre & Performance

About

Mydd Pharo is an award-winning Designer, Director and Visual Dramaturg working in theatre, opera, TV, Film and live event, creating both intimate and epic scale installations and productions throughout the UK and internationally. His work primarily focuses on immersive and interactive audience experiences and expands both conventional performance spaces and discovered ones.

He is Artistic Director of NPO company WildWorks, an international site-specific theatre company specialising in large-scale performances in unusual locations.

He has also designed works for:

Kneehigh Theatre, Wildworks, The Globe, The Royal Court, Punchdrunk, 1418NOW, NationalTheatre, National Theatre Wales, National Theatre Scotland, Battersea Arts Centre, Lyric Hammersmith, Young Vic, Paines plough, Stratford East, The Eden Project.

“ Working site-specifically, Mydd draws on stories and experiences of real people and real places, offering them back elevated to the status of epic myth. His work celebrates the magic in the ‘Mundane’ “

 “Mydd Pharo is a genuine one-off! Primal, surprising and witty, his work combines the ancient and modern, the urban and the rural. He is a visual magician; a theatre shaman, no less!” Emma Rice – Wise Children

Next works:

UNCOMMON LAND – WILDWORKS – BSIDE FESTIVAL – Director & Costume Designer – PORTLAND – Sept 2023

Selected Past works include:

GRACELAND – The Royal Court – Designer – Director: Izzy Rabey & Anna Himali Howard, Writer: Ava Wong Davies – Feb 2023

I AM KEVIN – WILDWORKS – Director & Costume Designer – Carlyon Bay, CORNWALL – July 2022

BEHIND THE POSTCARD – Director – CORNWALL – 2021

MEET ME AT THE EDGE FILM – WILDWORKS – Director – Botallack Cliffs, CORNWALL – 2021

COVENTRY CITY OF CULTURE – LAUNCH 2021 – Visual Dramaturg – 2021

THE THIRD DAY AUTUMN – Sky, HBO & Punchdrunk – Costume designer – 2020

MEET ME AT THE EDGE – WILDWORKS – Director – Botallack Cliffs, CORNWALL – Sept 2020

I WANNA BE YOURS – Paines Plough, Tamasha – Set and Costume designer – 2019

EARTH STORY – Designer –The Eden Project Cornwall – 2019

N:DLESS – Trifle Gathering productions – Designer  – Dir Kyla Goodey – 2019

100: UnEarth – WILDWORKS – The Lost Gardens of Heligan – July 2018.

Party Skills for The End Of The World – Costume design – The Assembly Hall – Nigel Barrett, Louise Mari, Abigail Conway,  Shoreditch Town Hall, February 2018,

Hearty –  Emma Frankland – The Yard Now18 – 2018 – 2019

Prideaux Angels – Dance Republic 2 – Simon Birch – Prideaux Place – Padstow – Dec 2017

Wolf’s Child – WildWorks, Trelowarren Estate, Cornwall, July 2017

The Great Survey of Hastings – WildWorks – Root 1066 International Arts Festival – Hastings – Sept 2016

Hansel Und Gretel  – Royal College of Music, July 2016

A Great Night Out – WildWorks – Sunderland Cultural Spring – Sunderland – May 2016

The Body – Nigel & Louise – The Barbican, London, Nov 2015 (The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award)

The Cinema of Dreams – WildWorks, Dream Cities, Tunis, Nov 2015 (British Council)

Rituals for Change – Emma Frankland/ None Of Us is Yet A Robot, Forest Fringe, Edinburgh, Aug 2015

Wolf’s Child – WildWorks, Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk, May 2015

Twice Upon A Castle – WildWorks, Kasteel Van Gaasbeek, Belgium, April – Nov 2015

Once Upon A Castle – WildWorks, Kasteel Van Gaasbeek, Belgium, April – Nov 2014

The Yule-tide Ark-ive – WildWorks, The Eden Project, Cornwall, Dec 2014

100: The Day Our World Changed  – WildWorks, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, Aug 2014

Nablus: City of Stories – WildWorks, Palestine, Sep 2013

Tony Teardrop – Cut To The Chase, St Luke’s Bomb-Out Church, Liverpool, Feb 2013

Arkive – WildWorks, The National Theatre, London, August 2012

BABEL – WildWorks and BAC, World Stages London, Caledonian Park, May 2012

The Wild Bride – Kneehigh Theatre, The Lyric Hammersmith, The Asylum, Cornwall, Summer & USA Tour  2011 – 2012

The Passion – WildWorks/ National Theatre Wales/ Michael Sheen, Port Talbot, Wales, April 2011

Enchanted Palace – WildWorks, Kensington Palace, London 2010 – 2012

How Long Would You Wait? – Effervescent Social Alchemy, NHS film campaign, 2010

Aqua – Four Generations Project, Laikipia Nature Conservancy, Northern Kenya, 2008

Mydd studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art and Fine Art Installation at Falmouth College of Arts.

Mydd has exhibited selected works at the V&A Museum London.

© Myriddin Pharo 2022