Stewart Laing
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Stewart Laing is a Scottish theatre director and a set designer.[1] He was born in Blairgowrie and raised in East Kilbride. He founded the company Untitled Projects to create one-off genre-defying events.
His first production design after graduating from the Central School of Art and Design was for In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel by Tennessee Williams for Internationalist Theatre[2] at London`s New End Theatre in 1983.
Laing designed the set and costumes for the musical "Titanic". His set design for the musical was described as "technically astonishing",[3] and won a Tony Award in 1997[1]
He was a member of the creative team for the National Theatre of Scotland's first production Home, which premiered on 26 February 2006.[4]
Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner was produced by Laing's Untitled Projects at the Tramway, Glasgow, in 2013.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Interview: Stewart Laing - 'It is a very different company, and I am a very different person'". The Scotsman. Johnston Press. 23 February 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- ↑ Theatricalia.com (1983). "In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel". Theatricalia – via theatricalia.com.
- ↑ Ben Brantley (April 24, 1997). "'Titanic,' the Musical, Is Finally Launched, and the News Is It's Still Afloat". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- 1 2 Radcliffe, Allan, "The National Theatre of Scotland: Theatre Without Walls", in Stevenson, Randall, & Walker, Greg (eds.) (2025), The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre, Oxford University Press, pp. 579 - 580 & 591, ISBN 9780192857385
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