Basia Bińkowska

Basia is a theatre designer/scenographer currently based in Poland and working internationally in the fields of theatre, drama, opera, dance, and performance installation. She trained in fine arts at home in Poland before completing a theatre design course in the UK at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She was the Overall Winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2017, for her design for Lyric Hammersmith’s othellomacbeth.

For the Donmar: Watch on the Rhine and Love and Other Acts of Violence.

Theatre credits include: Brigadoon; Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Cymbeline (Shakespeare’s Globe); Macbeth (UK tour); Vader en Moedertje (Theatre Bellevue, Amsterdam); Arianie (Narodowy Teatr Stary, Kraków); Mephisto [a Rhapsody] (Gate Theatre); Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); Crooked Dances (Royal Shakespeare Company); othellomacbeth (Lyric Hammersmith/HOME Manchester); Wolfie (Theatre503) and Blood Knot (Orange Tree Theatre).

Opera credits include: Women As Lovers (Norrlandsoperan, Sweden); Bluebeard from Bartok; La Danse des Morts; Sancta Susanna (Opera National de Lorraine); Die Fledermaus (Wilhelma Theater, Stuttgart); La Cenerentola;  L’incoronazione di Poppea (English Touring Opera); Il Piccolo Principe (Teatro Alla Scala, Milan); La Bohème; Pagliacci; Gianni Schicchi (Nevill Holt Opera) and Scoring a Century (British Youth Opera).

Dance credits include: Syn Marnotrawny (Kielecki Teatr Tańca, Poland) and Swans (Teatr Wielki, Poznań, Poland).