The winter’s tale

Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon

Video Programmer, Engineer and Co-Designer

July - August 2025

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Directed by Yaël Farber (King Lear, Olivier-nominated Macbeth for the Almeida), and featuring double Olivier and Tony Award-winner Bertie Carvel (Matilda The Musical), Madeline Appiah, Aïcha Kossoko and John Light this reimagined tale is brought vividly to life through Soutra Gilmour’s elemental set and costume design, and striking lighting design by Tim Lutkin.

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- Extract from the RSC’s web page - https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-winters-tale/

While I was working full-time for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the video department was given the opportunity of designing, programming and engineering The Winter’s Tale fully in-house. The surface was a hung sphere, 3 meters in diameter, which we would map with 4 Panasonic RQ25K projectors. While I was responsible for building the video rack, my colleague, Oli, decided where we would rig the projectors to cover as much of the audience-facing sphere as possible.

As a department, we all participated in the rigging, mapping and cabling of the projectors. While I was solely responsible for the video programming, both me and Oli designed content that would be used in the show. My main workflow for this production was to animate After Effects’ generative Noise effect, adding distortion and displacement, and then converting the output into a sphere format.

The video content displayed in these pictures is my work. I programmed the show using D3 Disguise.