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CV

SARAH OXLEY
DESIGNER, ART DIRECTOR, SET DECORATOR, BUYER

CONTACT

Email: pitstopcreations@icloud.com

 

WEBSITE 

https://www.pitstopcreations.com

 

 

SKILLS

Works well under pressure 

Organised and efficient 

Working to tight budgets and time deadlines

Project management 

Friendly team player

Dedicated and hardworking 

Excellent listening and communication skills

Set dressing

Sourcing props and costumes

Prop making

Model making

Scenic painting

Sculpting 

Running workshops

PPL Insurance 

Full clean driving license 

Enhanced DBS

EDUCATION 

BA(Hons) Theatre Design BTEC Foundation Art & Design 

REFERENCES

Available upon request

TV & FILM

Production Buyer/Set Decorator - G’Wed - Golden Path Productions, ITVX

Production Designer - The Big Proud Party Agency - AlleyCats TV, BBC3 

Costume Designer/HOD - Small World Pilot & Series 1&2 - Mutt & Jeff Pictures, BSL Zone 

Production Designer - Vanishing Point - BYMT & BAFTA-nominated Gamelab - filmed in various locations across Plymouth 

Art Director/Stage Manager - Sam and Mark’s Big Friday Windup - CBBC -   designing set pieces, managing art department, set/prop construction, ordering materials, producing technical drawings, time & budget management, adapting to quickly changing situations, continuity, filmed in front of live audience 

Art Director/ Prop Buyer - Mrs Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room - Black Lake Films - ensuring designer’s vision is maintained, sourcing props, set dressing, painting and continuity

Art Director - Jack and the Beanstalk - CBeebies Pantomime - sourcing and constructing props, set dressing, managing and co-ordinating art department.

Costume Designer/Maker - Chess piece costume Jamie Johnson - CBBC

Scenic Painter - Swashbuckle - CBeebies - maintaining the set, constructing and painting running props often to very short deadlines.

Scenic Painter - Ugly Duckling - CBeebies & Royal Northern Ballet - painting set to the designer’s specification, scaling up from designer’s model and discussions with the designer.

THEATRE 

Production Designer/Project Manager - Hamlet, Pericles, King John, A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 2019-2023 MAEI Cooperative Academy Theatre, Manchester

Production Designer - Bread Boy - BYMT, Lyric Theatre, Belfast 2022 

Production Designer - White Bear Lake - BYMT 2022 Theatre Royal Plymouth 

Set Designer/Scenic Artist/Puppet Maker - Big Fish - 2022 Mid Cheshire Musical  Theatre Company, Memorial Court Northwich, Cheshire 

Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Whistle Down the Wind - On The Mark Productions, Christleton High School, Cheshire 2022

Artist/Scenic Painter - Who Cares? - 2022 Enact Touring productions 

Production Designer - Peter Pan - BYMT  2021 Powderham Castle, Devon

Production Designer - White Bear Lake - BYMT 2021 Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury Performance cancelled due to COVID, 

Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Ghost - Knutsford Musical Theatre Company 2019 Memorial Court Northwich, Cheshire

Production Designer - Peter Pan - BYMT 2019 Theatre Royal Margate, Kent

Production Designer - I Spy with My Little Eye - The People’s Theatre Company, National Tours

Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Snow White, Aladdin, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington - Tip Top Productions, The Gateway Theatre, Chester 

Set Designer/Scenic Artist - My Fair Lady - Tip Top Productions, Theatre Clwyd 

Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Sister Act - On The Mark Productions, Christleton High School, Cheshire 2019 

Production Designer/Project Manager - A Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, The Tempest, Henry V, The Trenches, The Causes of WW1, Titanic Aftermath, Titanic - 2010-2018 MAEI site specific/promenade, Victoria Baths, Manchester

Production Designer - Help! Get Me Out of This Musical - BYMT 2018 South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire 

Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Honk - Mid Cheshire Musical Theatre Company, The Grange Theatre, Cheshire 2018

Scenic Artist - Our Day Out - Tip Top Productions, Theatre Clwyd 2017

Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Jungle Book, Our House, Dracula Spectacular, Storm 

Boy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Escape Committee, Coram Boy and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe -  Queens College, Taunton   

Production Designer - What I Go to School For (Busted Musical) - 2016 BYMT 

Set Designer/Head Scenic Artist - The Nutcracker - Northern Ballet School,  Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester 2014 

Set Designer/Scenic Artist - Xtremism, Spread by the sWord - Arakan Creative, touring productions 

Costume Designer - Treasure Island, Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream - Oddsocks Theatre Company, national tour

Production Designer - Stage Premier of All Creatures Great and Small - Durham Gala Theatre

Production Designer - Crying in the Chapel, Fair - Fink On Theatre, Contact Theatre, Manchester 

Production Designer/Project Manager - The Tudors - 2012 MAEI outdoor & indoor promenade production, Ordsall Hall, Salford 

Production Designer - The Comedy of Errors - Touring South East UK

Set Designer - Be My Baby - Durham Gala Theatre

Costume Designer/Maker - Slavery, The Weaver’s Tale, The English Civil War, Marie Antoinette - MAEI, Manchester Library Theatre, Contact Theatre, Manchester 

Set Designer/Artist - The Wiz, West Side Story, Oliver! - Sheffield Children’s Festival, The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield 

Production Designer - Don Perlimplin, Pilgrim’s Progress, The Shoe Maker’s Prodigious Wife - Guildford School of Acting

Production Designer/Stage Manager/Puppet Creator - Wind in the Willows,  Scrooge, The Borrowers - Jakes Ladder Theatre Company, South West UK tour & Tunbridge Wells

EVENTS & COMMUNITY 

Artist/Maker - Manchester Day Parade 2011 - 2022, Youth Commonwealth Games, Little Hulton Carnival - Walk the Plank - outdoor events, working with schools, youth and community groups to transform their ideas into achievable and amazing projects, running workshops, encouraging and bringing out creativity, managing individual projects, ensuring practicality and durability.

Set Dresser  - Camp & Furnace, Liverpool 2021, 2022

Designer - Cast The Light, Diwali 2021 - Walk the Plank, Bolton, Oldham, Bury, Tameside

Designer - The Magic Shawl, Holi 2021, Walk the Plank, Filmed in Manchester 

Designer - The Magic of Sanjeevani - Manchester Dashehra Diwali Mela, Walk the Plank, Albert Square, Manchester City centre

Artist - Spellbound Rama & Sita, Walk The Plank, Platt Fields Park, Manchester 

Production Designer & Project Coordinator - The Ugh! Show, Superbeasts, Summer Show - Longleat Safari & Adventure Park designing and managing production of sets, props and costumes, interpreting client’s needs and fulfilling the brief, ensuring everything is safe and durable, carrying out risk assessments, managing budget.

Artist designing and working with children with special needs to produce props, art pieces and costumes - various productions -New Bridge School, Manchester

MAKER, SCULPTOR & PAINTER

Creating various props, puppets and costumes using a wide variety of skills, techniques and materials, assessing which will give the best results to achieve excellent standards for high profile clients including sculpting heads for BBC’s Tweenies theatre tour and Children in Need’s Pudsey Bear among many others for theatre, holiday parks, tours, events, TV and films.

Scenic Artist - painting floors, clothes, gauzes, scenery and props, scaling up from designer’s model for various productions including BBC, CBeebies, CragRats, London Bubble Theatre Company, Snap Theatre Company, Costumes with Character, Frenzy Creative, Woburn Safari Park, Longleat, Spearfish, Splinter Scenery, Take 1 Scenic Services, Theme Traders, Hampstead Theatre and creating ‘the blue moon’ for Manchester City FC store opening in Manchester to name a few.

Nick Tiernan
Standby Props, Art Department & Prop Maker

CONTACT

Email: flailgray@yahoo.co.uk 

 

WEBSITE 

https://www.pitstopcreations.com

 

SKILLS 

Working to tight budgets and time deadlines

Team management 

Works well under pressure 

Friendly team player

H&S/Risk assessment 

Site management 

Carpentry & set building

Set dressing

Art Department 

Prop making

Sculpting 

Running workshops

PPL Insurance 

EDUCATION 

HETV & Film Standby Art Department Dressing For Camera run by Set Etiquette/ScreenSkills

 

REFERENCES

Available upon request

TV & Film

Standby Props - G'Wed - Golden Path Productions ITV X

Standby Props/Art Department - The Big Proud Party Agency - AlleyCats TV BBC3, included set construction and painting

Senior Art Department/Standby Props - Small World Series 1&2 - Mutt & Jeff Pictures BSL Zone 

Set/Prop Maker - Toby’s Travelling Circus - Take 1 Scenic, Channel 5 creating to scale scenery and props, highly accurate and detailed for TV animation

Theatre

Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - Hamlet, Pericles, King John, A Midsummer Night’s Dream - 2019-2023 MAEI Cooperative Academy Theatre, Manchester

Senior Set Builder/Instillation- Ghost - The Grange Theatre, Cheshire 2023

Prop Creator - Pinocchio, Hull Truck Theatre  

Prop Creator/Practical Effects - Matilda - On The Mark Productions, Christleton High School, Cheshire, 2022

Head of Set Production - Who Cares? - 2022 Enact Touring productions

Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - Big Fish - 2022 Mid Cheshire Theatre Company, Memorial Court Northwich, Cheshire 

Head of Set Production/Instillation - Whistle Down the Wind - On The Mark Productions, Christleton High School, Cheshire 2022

Senior Set Builder/Instillation - Railway Children - The Grange Theatre, Cheshire 

Head of Set Production/Instillation - Peter Pan - BYMT  2021 Powderham Castle, Devon

Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props/Practical Effects - Ghost - Knutsford Musical Theatre Company 2019 Memorial Court Northwich, Cheshire

Head of Set Production - Peter Pan - BYMT 2019 Theatre Royal Margate, Kent

Head of Set Production- I Spy with My Little Eye - The People’s Theatre Company, National Tours

Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props/Practical Effects - Snow White, Aladdin, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington - Tip Top Productions, The Gateway Theatre, Chester 

Senior Set Builder/Instillation - Legally Blonde - The Grange Theatre, Cheshire 2018

Head of Set Production/Instillation - My Fair Lady - Tip Top Productions, Theatre Clwyd 

Head of Set Production/Instillation - Sister Act - On The Mark Productions, Christleton High School, Cheshire 2019 

Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - A Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, The Tempest, Henry V, The Trenches, The Causes of WW1, Titanic Aftermath - 2011-2018 MAEI, site specific/promenade, Victoria Baths, Manchester

Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - Honk - Mid Cheshire Musical Theatre Company, The Grange Theatre, Cheshire 2018

Head of Set Production/Instillation/Puppet Creator - Jungle Book, Our House, Dracula Spectacular, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Escape Committee, Coram Boy and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe -  Queens College, Taunton   

Head of Set Production/Instillation - Edge Hill University 

Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - The Nutcracker - Northern Ballet School,  Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester 2014 

Head of Set Production/Instillation - Spread by the sWord - Arakan Creative, touring productions 

Head of Set Production/Instillation/Props Master - The Tudors - 2012 MAEI outdoor & indoor promenade production, Ordsall Hall, Salford 

Events & Community 

Site Manager -various large scale events - Profound Decisions, various outdoor locations, involving running large teams of crew and volunteers, logistics, budgets, H&S and carrying out risk assessments

Carpenter/Crew - Spellbound Rama & Sita, Walk The Plank, Platt Fields Park, Manchester, outdoor site specific production

Carpenter/Prop Maker - Manchester Day 2011 - 2022, Youth Commonwealth Games - Walk The Plank

Set Dresser  - Camp & Furnace, Liverpool 2021, 2022

Prop Master - Cast The Light, Diwali 2021 - Walk the Plank, Bolton, Oldham, Bury, Tameside

Prop Master - The Magic Shawl, Holi 2021, Walk the Plank, Filmed in Manchester  

Gardener/Maintenance - working with community and young people for the charity Roots & Boots

Artist, Maker, Sculptor & Lecturer

Guest Lecturer in Special Effects at Chester Art College

Private Commissions - Variety of weird and wonderful things including dragon wings, bone armour, horns, various weapons, armour and costumes 

Maker - character costumes - Frenzy Creative 

LARP Weapons creator - Mike Light Armouries

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