Bio

Douglas O’Connell

Video Designer

Douglas O’Connell is a British video and projection designer working across theatre, musical theatre, opera and dance in the UK and internationally. His work has been seen in the West End, at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Opera House, London Palladium, Malmö Opera, Tokyo Ballet and in major productions throughout Europe and internationally.

Alongside his design work, he has been lead artist on numerous commissioned projects in collaboration with the National Youth Theatre, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Save The Children International, and the Greenwich/Dockland Festival London. 

 Video designs credits include: Nutcracker (National Theatre Tokyo) Giovanna d’Arco (Malmö Opera)  The Magic Flute (Opera North)  Rock Me Amadeus (VBW, Vienna) Aspects of Love ( West End), The Wizard of Oz ( London Palladium and UK Tour), 1923 (Zorlu Center. Istanbul) Grease (West End and UK Tour),  Identical  (Nottingham Playhouse), Alls Well That Ends Well, Magician’s Elephant  (RSC) We Will Rock You ( International Tour), Royal Hunt of the Sun (Parco Theatre Tokyo) The Lost Thing (Royal Opera House), Pinocchio (Texas Ballet Dallas/ National Ballet of Canada), Witches of Eastwick (2Entertainment, Sweden) Hogarth’s Progress (Rose Theatre) An Officer and a Gentleman (UK National Tour), Sunset Boulevard  (Curve Theatre, UK National Tour),   Tale of Two Cities (Regent’s Park), Into the Woods (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Mystery Plays  (York Minster Cathedral), Don Giovanni  (Hampstead Garden Opera Company), The Bomb, Part 1 and 2 (Tricycle Theatre)  I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change  (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), Monsters (Arcola ) Mozart and Son: Benefit Gala (Royal Opera House, London) 300th Anniversary Gala (St Johns Smith Square), Nine O’Clock Slot (Ice and Fire, Red Gallery), Letter of Last Resort (Traverse Theatre), Sticks and Stones (Polka Theatre),  Dance Marathon (Barbican Theatre), Fit and Proper People and Silence (RSC New Writing), This Isn’t Romance (Soho Theatre)  Turn of the Screw (Arcola Theatre), Harold Pinter’s Birthday Party (Commissioned by Lyric Hammersmith).