JON BAUSOR
         stage design

Jon is a multi award winning international stage designer, spatial artist  and creative director based in London.

He designed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London and was nominated for an Emmy award in 2022 for Best Production Design on the Redbull film, Human Pinball. 

Jon trained as a singer and cellist at the Royal Academy of Music and Oxford University before retraining on the Motley Theatre Design Course graduating as a Linbury Prize finalist in 2000. Since then he has designed extensively in dance, opera and theatre for companies worldwide including the Royal Opera House, the Royal National Theatre, National Theatres of Scotland and Wales, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Toho Stage, Japan, both Finnish and Norwegian National Ballets and for many Broadway and London/ West End stages. He is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Theatre design includes: The stage adaptation of Miyazaki's legendary anime SPIRITED AWAY (TOHO/ Studio Ghibli, Japan/ London); the musical BAT OUT OF HELL (London/ Germany/ New York/ Toronto- nominated Best Design Whats on Stage awards); KING LEAR for the Kenneth Branagh Company (West End/ The Shed, NY); the first non replica version of WICKED (Stage Entertainment, Hamburg); Idris Elba's TREE (Manchester International Festival/ Young Vic); TRUE WEST (West End); KNIGHTS’ TALE (Imperial Theatre/TOHO, Tokyo); The AUTHENTICATOR Royal National Theatre, London;  FATHERLAND (Underworld and Frantic Assembly for Manchester International Festival); THE BAND- the Take That musical (UK Tour); THE GRINNING MAN (Bristol Old Vic/Trafalgar Studios- WINNER Best Design UK Theatre awards); THE JAMES PLAYS (National Theatre/ National Theatre of Scotland/ World tour); KURSK (Sound and Fury/Young Vic- nominated Best Design Evening Standard awards); GHOST STORIES (West End/ Toronto/ Moscow); LORD OF THE FLIES (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre- Evening Standard nomination for Best Design); MAMETZ (National Theatre of Wales- WINNER Best Design UK Theatre awards, WINNER Welsh Theatre awards); YOU FOR ME FOR YOU (Royal Court- nominated Best Design Evening Standard awards); I AM YUSUF (Shebbahurr, Palestine/ Young Vic, London).

 

As an associate artist of the RSC he has designed numerous productions including HAMLET, KING LEAR and the entire 2012 season.

Design for Dance includes: THE NUTCRACKER (also co director with Kaloyan Boiadjiev) and Liam Scarlett's FIREBIRD (Norwegian National Ballet); HANSEL AND GRETEL also by Liam Scarlett (Royal ballet); BEFORE THE TEMPEST; GHOSTS by Cathy Marston and Will Tuckett's PLEASURE'S PROGRESS (Royal Opera House); CLARA by Cathy Marston (Bern Ballet); SCRIBBLINGS by Doug Varone, THE CASTAWAYS by Barak Marsall, and HYDRAGYRUM by Patricia Okenawa (all for Rambert); WONDERLAND (Gallim, New York);  IN MEDIA RES by Andrea Miller (Nederlands Dans Theater); SNOW WHITE IN BLACK by Arthur Pita (Phoenix Dance Theatre, Sadlers Wells) and Liam Scarlett's LEST WE FORGET (English National Ballet).

Opera includes: AINADAMAR (Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Metropolitan Opera NYC); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, RIGOLETTO, LA BOHEME, THE GOLDEN DRAGON (Halle Oper); DIE WALKÜRIE (Bordeaux National Opera); CENDRILLON (Glyndebourne); THE KNOT GARDEN (Theatre an der Wien); AGRIPPINA (Grange Park Opera); THE LIGHTHOUSE (Teatro Poliziano, Montepulciano) and THE SOLDIER’S TALE (Old Vic, London/Baghdad).

 

He co curated and designed the 2026 exhibition FRIDA Y DIEGO; THE LAST DREAM at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) which includes his sculpture Tree of Hope, and was commissioned to create a sculpture Bodies Joined by a Molecule of Air in collaboration with Invisible Flock for the World Health Organisation at COP 27 and 28. 

 

Forthcoming work includes set and costume design for EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as well as the stage design for Verdi's MACBETH opening the new season there in September 2026. Also set and costumes for Janáček's THE EXCURSIONS OF MR BROUČEK TO THE MOON for the Bregenz Festspiele and stage designs for the musical DEATHNOTE premiering at the Barbican Theatre, London.