Anisha Fields

RSC | Kiln, 2024

Set & Costume Design

★★★★
‘A whole, rich world inside this single classroom’

- The Stage

★★★★★
‘Dazzling, clever and moving’

- The Times

★★★★

‘Engaging, provocative and moving... Anisha Fields has created a set that is both universally recognisable and distinctively specific"

- WhatsOnStage

Written by Sanaz Toossi
Directed by Diyan Zora
Lighting Design by Elliot Griggs
Sound Design by George Dennis
Movement Director Maria Tarokh
Casting by Lotte Hines CDG
Voice, Text and Dialect Edda Sharpe
Assistant Director, Text and Dialect Sara Amini
Costume Supervisor Chris Cahill
Production Manager Kurt Moores

Starring Nadia Albina, Sara Hazemi, Lanna Joffrey, Nojan Khazai and Serena Manteghi

Production photography by Richard Davenport

Unicorn Theatre 2023 / The Egg Bath Theatre Royal 2019, 2021

Set + Costume Design, collaborator

Performed by Tika Mu'tamir (2023), Caroline Garland / Oliver Langdon (2019 - 2021)

Directed by Tim Bell
Written by Kate Cross
Lighting Design by Dave Treanor
Puppet Design and maker Marc Parrett
Sound Design by Dinah Mullen
Production photography by Camilla Adams

- ★★★★★ Guardian

“This small wonder is full of surprises… this remarkable production mixes Bauhaus-style designs and jazz in an irresistible treat for under-fives... this is an unusually cool, even chic children’s production, but it’s also supremely welcoming and warm-hearted, with an understanding of its under-five audiences that is as sophisticated as its cultural references..”

“At the end, Anisha Fields’ stylish, clever set reveals a flurry of surprises. The blocks, cones and balls spill all over the stage and suddenly resemble a forest landscape. As the kids lose themselves in it, you couldn’t wish for a merrier Christmas scene”

Production Designer

Directed by Sonya Quayle
Production Company: Ex-Isle  Films/Deerstalker Films
DOP John Craine
Costume Design by Holly Prescott

The Egg, Bath Theatre Royal + touring

Production Design + illustration

“…in a production designed with elan by Anisha Fields, the aesthetic is a particularly sophisticated blend of grown up and childlike. An art deco stand with burnished poles is studded with planet-like orbs; the floor and back wall display doodles and aeronautical-style charts; and sand is poured from a mug to make the desert”

-Guardian

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Written & Performed by Toby Thompson
Directed by Nik Partridge
Costume Supervisor and maker Lydia Higginson at Made My Wardrobe
Lighting Design by George Seal
Video Design, AV Engineer & illustration by Nick Laws
Video Engineer James Lisk
Composer & Sound Designer Alex Heane
Composer & Sound Designer Bethany Ley
Composer & Sound Designer Joseff Harris
Production Manager Rachael Duthie
Stage Manager Chaz Webb
Prop Maker & ASM Katie Jones

Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio, 2023

Set + Costume Designer

Starring Francesca Hayward, Alexander Campbell, Hannah Rudd & Jacob Wye

Written by Sam Steiner

Directed by Ed Madden

Choreographed by Kristen McNally

Composed by Isobel Waller Bridge

Lighting Design by Lee Curran

Sound Design by Max Pappenheim

Original Dance Concept by Alexander Campbell Productions

Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2023

Designer

★★★★ Guardian

Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles? offers a fascinating and rather beautiful reminder of just how little you need in order to make compelling theatre… a night which puts the emphasis firmly on story-telling and offers up something very special, hugely helped by Anisha Fields’s excellent, spare and simple design”

Sussex world

“Anisha Fields’s devastatingly simple set resembles a sound studio too, as if Adam needs to record his mother’s witness statement properly… starkly compelling”

Plays International

Directed by Diyan Zora

Lighting Design by Joshua Gadsby

Video Design by Hayley Egan

Music by Robert Sword

Sound Design by George Dennis

Movement and assistant directed by Georgina Makhubele

Casting by Lotte Hines CDG

Voice and Dialect coach Shereen Ibrahim

Production Manager Lucy Guyver

Costume Supervisor Helen Flower

Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Supervisor Shelley Gray

Company Manager Francesca Finney

Deputy Stage Manager Olivia Roberts

Production photography by The Other Richard (additional photos by Anisha Fields)

Bolton Octagon, Theatre by the Lake, 2022

Set + Costume Design

Directed by Atri Banerjee

By Barry Hines

Adapted for the stage by Robert Alan Evans

Lighting Design by Jamie Platt

Sound Design and Composition by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite

Production photography by Marc Brenner

“Visually arresting… the backdrop often feels like a performer in its own right. Anisha Fields’ simple but effective bisected front-room set offers glimpses of a cornfield and the wider world through its murky net curtains”

★★★★ The Stage

★★★★ Guardian ★★★★ Manchester Evening News ★★★★ Bolton News ★★★★ Manchester Theatres ★★★★ Opening Night

Set & Costume Design

Mercury Colchester, 2022

“A sumptuously designed, modern reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic… The design and special effects of the show (by Anisha Fields) are awesome to behold. After Alice falls down the rabbit hole, there are disappearing and multiplying Alices; a giant Alice, tiny Alice, and a growing Alice – all wonderfully conceived. A vast array of scene changes reaches its zenith at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, a stylish composition of bronze, pink and powder blue.”

The Stage

By Lewis Carroll, adapted for the stage by Mike Kenny

Music by Ivan Stott

Directed by Emma Earle

Lighting Design by Joshua Gadsby

Sound Design by Beth Duke

Musical Direction & Arrangement by Jamie Noar

Movement Direction by Dan Canham

Costume Supervisor Chantelle Cox

Casting by Nicholas Hockaday

Early Opera Company / Buxton International Festival, Buxton Opera House 2021

Set + Costume Designer

Directed by Martin Constantine

Conducted by Christian Curnyn

Starring Sam Boden, Anna Dennis, Jorge Navarro Colorado, Edward Grint and David de Winter

Lighting Design by Ben Pickersgill

Stage Manager May Howard-Shigeno

Produced by Helen Wills

Photography credit: Genevieve Girling

Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, 2023

Set + Costume Design

The timorous Frances, meanwhile, who we never see, is tenderly evoked, swimming in a gigantic, opaque tank at the back of the stage in Anisha Fields’s clean, effective set design. Movement is suggested through jets of foam and her changes of mood revealed in vivid changes of colour, from cool blues to sunshine oranges.

-Guardian

Designer Anisha Fields finds a very clever way of suggesting the ever-presence of Frances. The audience sits on three sides of the stage and the whole length of the fourth side is taken up by what appears to be a tank full of water. Reflections of the actors can be seen in the glass front of the tank, giving the impression that it is the human characters that are being studied, thereby underlining the point of the play.

- ★★★★ Reviewshub

Written by Marek Horn

Directed by Ed Madden

Southwark Playhouse Elephant, 2023

Set + Costume Design

Superb set design… Vividly acted, directed and designed, this revival of his 2006 two-acter suggests it’s a masterpiece.

Arts Desk

Anisha Fields’ nicely grimy design has wallpaper whose wistful foliage suggests the green grass of home. There are pots, pans and a framed pope in the kitchen, a clutter of locks including an ornamental crucifix bolting the front door and a ghostly lipsticked bust evoking the sons’ absent mother.

Guardian

Directed by Nicky Allpress

Lighting Design by Lucía Sánchez Roldán

Composition and Sound Design by Joseff Harris

Fight Direction by Claire Llewellyn of Rc-Annie Ltd

Stage management Molly Tackaberry

Starring Emmet Byrne, Killian Coyle, Rachelle Diedericks and Dan Skinner

Hampstead Theatre, 2023

Set + Costume Design

By Joe White

Directed by Guy Jones

Lighting Design by Christopher Nairne

Sound Design and composition by Holly Khan

Movement Direction Iskandar R. Sharazuddin

Cast Alex Austin and Rebecca Humphries

★★★★★ Telegraph

★★★★★ Reviews Hub

★★★★★ London Theatre Reviews

★★★★ The Guardian

★★★★ Financial Times

★★★★ iNews

★★★★ Express

★★★★ What’s on Stage

★★★★ Broadway World

★★★★ Ham and High

★★★★ Spy in the Stalls

★★★★ London Theatre 1

Southwark Playhouse, 2021

Set + Costume Design

Directed by Ed Madden

Written by Marek Horn

Lighting Design by Rajiv Pattani

Sound Design by Max Pappenheim

Production Photography by Helen Maybanks

Tobacco Factory Theatres, 2018

Set + Costume Design

Directed by Adele Thomas
Lighting Design by Matt Graham
Sound Design by Max Pappenheim
Movement and Fight Director Kev McCurdy
Costume Supervisor Jess Hardy
Starring Aaron Anthony, Jack Riddiford, Simon Armstrong, Kirris Riviere, Maggie Bain, Katy Stephens, Cait Davis, Joseph Tweedale, Jonathan McGuinness and Laura Waldren

Production Photography: Mark Dawson

“terrifyingly good from start to finish.…this exploration of the corrupting power of ambition, is visually and audibly disturbing throughout”.
★★★★★ The Fix

★★★★ The Stage

Tobacco Factory Theatres, New Vic, and The Dukes Lancaster, 2018

Set + Costume Designer

Directed by Mike Tweddle
Musical Direction, Sound Design and music by Thomas Johnson
Lighting Design by Chris Swain
Starring Finn Hanlon, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Ted Reilly, Phoebe Thomas and Tristan Waterson

Tobacco Factory Theatres, Salisbury Playhouse, 2020 (Salisbury cancelled due to Covid-19)

Set + Costume Design

Directed by David Mercatali
Written by Edward Albee
Lighting Design by Chris Swain
Sound Design by Dinah Mullen
Costume Supervision by Jane Curnow
Starring Pooky Quesnel, Mark Meadows, Joseph Tweedale and Francesca Henry
Production Photography by Mark Dawson

“This fine revival by David Mercatali packs a considerable punch, with a stripped-back, no-holds-barred production and excellent performances from Albee’s quartet of combatants… Mercatali’s staging, designed by Anisha Fields, is in the round, presenting a low-lit living-room arena into which the hosts from hell doggedly come out swinging”

★★★★ The Times

“The in-the-round staging, with designs by Anisha Fields, works well. We stay in the 60s front room, littered with books, coats and booze. It feels, often in contrast to what's being said onstage, very real”

whatsonstage.com

A co-production by the egg and Travelling Light, 2018-2020

Set Designer

Written and Performed by Toby Thompson
Directed by Toby Thompson
Lighting Design by George Seal
Sound Design by Jonathan Everett

Co-comissioned by Brighton Festival and Imaginate.

Winner of the Showcase Victor Award, IPAY 2020

“Designer Anisha Fields has created something very special here and the effect is magical”

★★★★ Stage Talk

“Jazzy Hermann Hesse tale is stunning… scattered around him on stage are wooden houses of different sizes, cleverly designed by Anisha Fields. Some conceal smaller houses with roofs that open to reveal props; one house pours sand out of its chimney, much to Aggie’s delight. Another home pops up inside a book”

Guardian

“The set design was nothing short of magical…. a brilliant set, where light and sounds design were able to create the magic necessary to bring this story to life”
★★★★★ Bristol365

Tobacco Factory Theatres, 2018

Written by Arthur Miller
Directed by Mike Tweddle
Set + Costume Design
Lighting Design by Matt Graham
Sound Design by Max Pappenheim
Movement and Fight Director Kev McCurdy
Costume Supervisor Jess Hardy
Starring Aaron Anthony, Jack Riddiford, Simon Armstrong, Mark Letheren, Kirris Riviere, Katy Stephens, Joseph Tweedale, and Laura Waldren

Production Photography: Mark Dawson

“This is one of the most exciting pieces of work seen on a Bristol stage in a long time. Don’t miss it.”
- Bristol247

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Redgrave Theatre, 2017

Costume Design

Directed by Bill Alexander
Set Design by Eleanor Bull