BIOGRAPHY Julian is a director, designer, writer, maker and teacher whose career has spanned Theatre, Opera, Film and Television. Initially a mask and puppet maker, Julian designed CHARIVARI for Trickster Theatre Company, a company he toured the world with from 1985 to 1986. In the following years, Julian specialised in site specific design, including seventeen productions for Welfare State International. In 1992 he began a successful creative partnership with Phelim McDermott, for whom he designed DR FAUSTUS, IMPROBABLE TALES, THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS and THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (which earned him a T.M.A nomination for Best Designer of the Year). They also co-directed and designed THE QUEST FOR DON QUIXOTE which received a Best Design Nomination in the London Fringe Awards and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (TMA Best Touring Production Award) for the English Shakespeare Company. Along with Lee Simpson, Phelim and Julian formed their own company, Improbable Theatre, in 1996. Their productions of ANIMO, 70 HILL LANE, LIFEGAME, COMA, SPIRIT, STICKY and Angela Carter's CINDERELLA have gained far-reaching national and international recognition, winning several major awards. Julian and Phelim’s most enduring collaboration to date has been SHOCKHEADED PETER for Cultural Industry (Olivier Awards - Best Entertainment, also nominated for Best Direction and Best Design, TMA Best Director Award, Critics Society Best Designer Award and a South Bank Show Theatre Award Nomination). This production, based on the Struwwelpeter book, has returned to the West End after four years of record breaking international touring. In 2000 they produced a German version, STRUWWELPETER for the Deutches Shauspielhaus, Hamburg. They returned in 2002 to mount EIN SOMMERNACHTSTRAUM. In 2000 Julian collaborated with Balinese puppeteers and musicians in THE THEFT OF SITA for the Adelaide Festival, which appeared in London as part of LIFT. Most recently Julian designed TINY DYNAMITE and ON BLINDNESS for Paines Plough and Frantic Assembly. He continues his work with Wolfgang Stange and the Suntera Foundation in the refugee camps of Sri Lanka. More recently Julian was Designer and Associate Director on the multi award winning JERRY SPRINGER - THE OPERA by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, for the National Theatre, and now in the West End at the Cambridge Theatre (Best Musical - Evening Standard awards, Olivier Award, Critics Circle). He is currently working at the National again, designing A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, and is in development with Vicky Featherstone and Neil Gaiman on the theatrical realisation of the latter's WOLVES WITHIN THE WALLS. blah