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Patrick Connellan

awards and nominations

2021 Offie Award for Set Design. 
Linbury Prize winner.
Gold Medal Winner at the Prague Quadriennale  1995.

Productions

2022

FIGHTING IRISH

Directors: Hamish Glen & Corey Campbell
Belgrade Theatre

2020

EDUCATING RITA
 
Director: Max Roberts
UK Tour (David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers & Theatre by the Lake)
 
THE INCIDENT ROOM Director: David Byrne
New Diorama Theatre
 
EDUCATING RITA

Director: Max Roberts
UK Tour

2019

THE INCIDENT ROOM
 
Director: David Byrne
Pleasence Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival
 
EDUCATING RITA Director: Max Roberts
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick 
 

2018

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
(Co-Design, Abby Clarke)

Director: Chris Honer
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick

WE'LL LIVE AND DIE IN THESE TOWNS

Director: Hamish Glen
Belgrade Theatre

READ ALL ABOUT IT

Belgrade Theatre

WHISKY GALORE

Director: Kevin Shaw
Oldham Coliseum

2017

A SHORT HISTORY OF TRACTORS IN UKRAINIAN

Director: Mark Babych
Hull Truck

THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE

Director: Michael Hunt
TUZ, Perm, Russia

THE FATHER

Director: Kevin Shaw
Oldham Coliseum & Harrogate Theatre

THE RED LION

Director: Max Roberts
Live Theatre & Trafalgar Studios

 

2016

THE GAUL

Director: Mark Babych
Hulltruck

ROLLOVER BEETHOVEN

Director: Bob Eaton
Belgrade Theatre

IRIS

Director: Max Roberts
Live, Newcastle

MARTHA, JOSIE AND THE CHINESE ELVIS

Director: Mark Babych
Octagon Bolton

 

2015

THE HOOK

Director: James Dacre
Royal & Derngate/Liverpool Everyman

THE LADYKILLERS

Director: Mark Babych
New Vic Theatre/Hull Truck/Stephen Joseph Theatre

 

previous theatre

THREE MINUTE HEROES

Director: Bob Eaton
Belgrade Coventry

ONE NIGHT IN NOVEMBER
(Revival 2013)
Director: Hamish Glen
Belgrade Theatre

TAMING OF THE SHREW

Director: Pete Meakin
Derby Live

WHERE HAVE I BEEN ALL MY LIFE

Director: Theresa Heskins
New Vic Theatre, Stoke

20TH CENTURY BOY: THE MUSICAL

Director: Gary Lloyd
New Wolsey Theatre

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF

Director: David Thacker
The Octagon Theatre Bolton

ONE NIGHT IN NOVEMBER

Director: Hamish Glen
Belgrade Theatre

THE PRICE (Winner: Best Production Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards)

Director: David Thacker
The Octagon Theatre, Bolton / Tour

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

Director: Pete Meakin
Derby Live

SILENT ANGER (as Director)

Reveal Theatre tour

ALPHABETICAL ORDER/ COPENHAGEN

Director: Gwenda Hughes, James Dacre
New Vic Theatre, Stoke

GHOSTS

Director: David Thacker
The Octagon Theatre Bolton

THE SEAFARER

Director: Mark Babych
The Octagon Theatre Bolton

ALL MY SONS

Director: David Thacker
The Octagon Theatre Bolton

AMONGST FRIENDS

Director: Anthony Clark
Hampstead Theatre

MEET THE MUKHERJEES

Director: Mark Babych
The Octagon Theatre Bolton

LIFE AFTER SCANDAL

Hampstead Theatre & Plymouth Theatre Royal

TAKING CARE OF BABY

Hampstead Theatre & the Door, Birmingham

NATHAN THE WISE

Hampstead Theatre

Double bill: OSAMA THE HERO and A SINGLE ACT

Hampstead Theatre

THE MATHS TUTOR

Director: All Anthony Clark
Hampstead Theatre & the Door, Birmingham Rep

TWELFTH NIGHT

Director: Mark Babych
The Octagon Theatre Bolton

BROKEN GLASS

Director: Damian Cruden
The Octagon Theatre Bolton & Theatre Royal York

BLAME Director: Deborah Bruce
York Theatre Royal and Sphinx

INTO THE WOODS (TMA Best Musical Award nomination)

Director: Karen Hebden
Derby Playhouse

ARTURO UI

Director: Janice Dunn
Mercury Theatre Colchester

THE BAT (based on DIE FLEDERMAUS)

Director: Chris Monks
New Vic Theatre

I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE

Director: Jeremy Bond
Watford Palace

 

as director and designer

ABIGAIL’S PARTY

New Vic Theatre, Stoke

POPCORN

The Octagon Theatre Bolton

THIS LIME TREE BOWER

Coventry Belgrade & Edinburgh Festival

 

other london theatre

EDWARD III

Director: Anthony Clark
Royal Shakespeare Company and Gielgud Theatre, West End

WHEN THE NIGHT BEGINS

Director: Anthony Clark
Hampstead Theatre

MY BEST FRIEND

Hampstead & The Door, Birmingham

THE SLIGHT WITCH

Director: Anthony Clark
National Theatre/Door, Birmingham Rep

PADDY IRISHMAN, PADDY ENGLISHMAN, PADDY…

Director: Anthony Clark
Tricycle & Birmingham Rep

A PASSIONATE WOMAN

Director: Ned Sherrin
Comedy Theatre

MISERY

Director: Simon Moore
Criterion Theatre

 

other work at birmingham rep

MORNING GLORY

Director: Lawrence Till
Also Door Theatre, Watford Palace & Cambridge Arts

ST JOAN

 
CONFIDENCE  

DOWN RED LANE

 

ROUGH

 

PYGMALION

 

THE ATHEIST’S TRAGEDY

 

CIDER WITH ROSIE

 

THE PIED PIPER

 

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

 

NERVOUS WOMEN

 

JULIUS CAESAR

Director: All Anthony Clark

 

other work at
the octagon theatre bolton

LITTLE MALCOLM

 

THE WEIR

 

THE HYPOCHONDRIAC

 

HAM!

 

MISS JULIE

 

THE BLUE ROOM

Director: All Mark Babych

TIME AND THE CONWAYS

Director: Lawrence Till

 

other work at the
belgrade theatre coventry

Patrick was also Head of Design at Belgrade Theatre.

THE RINK

Director: Hamish Glen

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

Director: Patrick & Richard Hayhow

THE DICE HOUSE

 

SILAS MARNER

 

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

 

LEADER OF THE PACK

Director: All Bob Eaton

NEVILLE’S ISLAND

Director: John Adams

THE WEDDING

Director: Kathi Leahy

BIG NOSE (set)

Director: Chris Monks

 

no 1 tours

HEAVEN CAN WAIT

Director: Peter Rowe

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

Director: Bob Eaton

LEADER OF THE PACK

Director: Peter Rowe

CONDUCT UNBECOMING

Director: John Adams

 

west workshire playhouse

CORIOLANUS

Director: Steven Berkoff

WHEN WE ARE MARRIED

 

THE RIVALS

Director: Both John Adams

 

other theatre includes

A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE

 

SHE KNOWS YOU KNOW

Director: Both Gwenda Hughes
Both New Vic Theatre, Stoke

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO

Director: Chris Monks
And Scarborough

THE WIZARD OF OZ (set)

Director: Paul Kerryson

MISERY

Director: John Adams

PERFECT DAYS

Director: Peter Rowe
Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and Greenwich

ROAD Director: Janice Dunn
Mercury Colchester

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

Director: Rob Swain
Harrogate Theatre and Arts Council tour

A PASSIONATE WOMAN

Gloria Theatre, Athens

TOP GIRLS

Director: Jonathan Church
Salisbury Playhouse & The Drum Plymouth