Anna Reid

Award Nominations

2023 Olivier Award for Best New Play - for For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy, designed by Anna

2022 Black British Theatre Awards - Best Production Play Award for For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy at The Royal Court, designed by Anna.

2021 OFFIE Production (Plays) For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy at New Diorama Theatre, designed by Anna.

2021 Runner up of the JMK Award with Director Rafaella Marcus for their proposal for Peggy Pickett Sees the Face of God by Roland Schimmelpfennig.

2017 World Stage Design representing the UK as an emerging designer for Fury at Soho Theatre.


Anna is a theatre designer based in London. She is the Associate Designer for Damsel Productions.


Accidental Death of an Anarchist - Sheffield Playhouse
Anna Reid’s designs are part of the glorious chaos of Raggett’s production: from the totting up of victims that appears occasionally and finally smothers all the walls to the white board that the Maniac misses when marking up the evidence.
— ★★★★★- WhatsOnStage
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide . . . The Royal Court
The staging is bright, lively and, in Anna Reid’s designs, boldly colourful, with a first act that suggests a very loose therapy session... This tender, poignant and vitally populist show’s cumulative impact is potentially profound. It has the power to make you want to treat your fellow human beings, regardless of their skin tone, with greater kindness and respect.
— ★★★★ - The Times
Scrounger - Finborough Theatre
Anna Reid’s set design works on multiple levels and is a practical and imaginative depiction of the constrictions of Scrounger’s life...It’s a piece of theatre that opens up an internal string of mea culpa in the audience; and perhaps the reassessment of privilege...
— ★★★ - Broadway World
Paradise - Hampstead Theatre
Anna Reid proves herself again with a gorgeous set design, which turns the Downstairs auditorium into a bona fide heaven. The stone wall, hanging branches, astroturf and flower pots paint the delicate picture of solace and languidness one would expect of a Platinum Package.
— Broadwayworld.com

Gallery


2023

Production

Company

For Black Boys Who have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy West End - Apollo Theatre, Dir & Writer Ryan Calais
Accidental Death of An Anarchist - Adapted by Tom Basden Lyric Hammersmith, Dir. Daniel Raggett
Dead Man Walking Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Dir. Martin Lloyd-Evans
The Power of Paternal Love Barber Opera, Dir. Christopher Cowell
Accidental Death of An Anarchist - Adapted by Tom Basden West End - Haymarket Theatre, Dir. Daniel Raggett
The Vanishing Room Frankfurt English Theatre Frankfurt, Dir. David Byrne
Rock 'n' Roll Hampstead Theatre, Dir. Nina Raine

2022

Production

Company

Opera Double Bill - Judith Weir's Miss Fortune and Menotti's The Telephone Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Dir. Martin Lloyd-Evans
The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs Soho Theatre, Dir. Hannah Hauer-King
For Black Boys Who have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy The Royal Court, Co-Dirs. Ryan Calais & Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu
Accidental Death of An Anarchist - Adapted by Tom Basden Sheffield Theatres Playhouse, Dir. Daniel Raggett

2021

Production

Company

Little Green Swallow Guildhall School, Dir. Martin Lloyd Evans, Associate Designer to Dick Bird
Sessions Soho Theatre & UK Tour, Dir. Phillip Morris, Lighting Des. Simisola Majekodunmi
The Memory of Water Hampstead Theatre, Dir. Alice Hamilton
For Black Boys Who have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy (World Premiere) New Diorama Theatre, Dir. Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu

2020

Production

Company

Four Minutes Twelve Seconds Oldham Coliseum, Dir. Chris Lawson
The Strength of Paternal Love (Postponed) Barber Institute, Dir. Christopher Cowell
Scrounger (World Premiere) Finborough Theatre, Dir. Lily McLeish
Sleepwalking Hampstead Theatre, Dir. Audrey Sheffield

2019

Production

Company

Twelfth Night Southwark Playhouse, Dir. Anna Girvan
Soft Animals Soho Theatre, Dir. Lakesha Arie-Angelo
Midsummer Night's Dream Tobacco Factory Theatre, Dir. Mike Tweddle
Our Country's Good Tobacco Factory Theatre, Dir. Anna Girvan
Mary's Babies Jermyn Street Theatre, Dir. Tatty Hennessy
Cash Cow Hampstead Theatre, Dir. Katie Pesskin
The Sweet Science of Bruising Wilton's Music Hall, Dir. Kirsty Patrick Ward
DUST New York Theatre Workshop, Dir. Sara Joyce
Stop Kiss Above the Stag (London), Dir. Rafaella Marcus

2018

Production

Company

The Hoes Hampstead Theatre, Dir. Lakesha Arie-Angelo
The Sweet Science of Bruising Southwark Playhouse, Dir. Kirsty Patrick Ward
Drip Feed Soho Theatre, Dir. Oonagh Murphy
Dust Soho Theatre & Trafalgar Studios, Dir. Sara Joyce
Schism Park Theatre, Dir. Lily McLeish
Grotty The Bunker Theatre, Dir. Hannah Hauer-King
Rasheeda Speaking Trafalgar Studios, Dir. Jonathan O'Boyle
The Kitchen Sink Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Dir. Chris Lawson
Collective Rage Southwark Playhouse, Dir. Charlie Parham
Tiny Dynamite The Old Red Lion, Dir. David Loumgair
Paradise Hampstead Theatre, Dir. Alice Hamilton

2017

Production

Company

Dear Brutus Southwark Playhouse, Dir. Jonathan O'Boyle
The Sex Workers Opera National tour & Ovalhouse Theatre London, Dirs. Siobhán Knox, Alex Etchart & Clare Quinn
Rattle Snake Live Theatre Newcastle, Theatre Royal York & Soho Theatre, Dir. Charlotte Bennett
The Cardinal Southwark Playhouse, Dir. Justin Audibert
I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard Finborough Theatre, Dir. Jake Smith
School Play Southwark Playhouse, Dir. Charlie Parham

2016

Production

Company

Jumpers for Goalposts The Oldham Coliseum, Dir. Chris Lawson
Fury Soho Theatre, Dir. Hannah Hauer-King

2015

Production

Company

Dry Land Jermyn Street Theatre, Dir. Hannah Hauer-King
Arthur's World The Bush Theatre, Dir. Mel Cook

2014

Production

Company

Hamlet Riverside Studios, Dir. Zoe Ford