BEN HANSON - CONSULTANT

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Main Responsibilities
To assist and provide consultancy in all aspects of theatre design, specialising in auditorium design and planning, seating, sightlines and accessibility.

Qualifications
MArch in Architecture, Bath University
BSc in Architecture, Bath University, where his final year thesis project was awarded the Basil Spence Award for Design.

Experience
Five years’ experience as an architectural assistant , including 10 months for Make Architects working on a large range of jobs in London, Braine and Barbados.

Ten years experience as an assistant theatre set designer for Johan Engels and Peter Davison. Working on many shows including:
Whistle Down the Wind (National Theatre, Washington, D.C.);  Anything Goes (Grange Park Opera, Hampshire);  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Theatr Clwyd, Cardiff);  Spartacus (Vienna State Ballet, Vienna);  Show Boat (Cape Town, Nurenberg and Oslo);  Chorus (Houston Grand Opera, Texas);  Afterlife (Royal National Theatre, London); The Boys in the Photograph (Johannesburg Civic Theatre, South Africa); First Wives Club (Broadway, New York).

Consultancy
National Concert Hall, Dublin; Central St Martins School, London;  Corby Cube, Corby; RSC Redevelopment, Stratford-upon-Avon; Perth Theatre, Scotland; Interplay Theatre, Leeds.