Photo: Sophie GiddensJida Akil is a Syrian/Lebanese set & costume designer. She graduated from Central Saint Martins with First Class Honours and has worked with notable companies such as the Young Vic, National Theatre, and Complicité. Her designs have also gained international acclaim in exhibitions for the Prague Quadrennial and World Stage Design. Jida also works as a facilitator & mentor. Jida is passionate about platforming stories of the global majority.
Current & Upcoming Productions:
-All The Happy Things | Soho Theatre
By Naomi Denny | Dir. Lucy Jane Atkinson
-Penguin | UK & International Tour (revival)
By Hamzeh Al-Hussein | Dir. Amy Golding
Current & Upcoming Productions:
-All The Happy Things | Soho Theatre
By Naomi Denny | Dir. Lucy Jane Atkinson
-Penguin | UK & International Tour (revival)
By Hamzeh Al-Hussein | Dir. Amy Golding
SELECTED CREDITS:
Set & Costume unless specified
Set & Costume unless specified
Scenes From Lost Mothers
Community
Macbeth (Costume)
All Growed Up
Tender
Pippin
Earthquakes in London
Penguin
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Costume)
The Six of Calais & Ruth (Double Bill)
The Pappy Cabaret Show (Set)
Five Shorts
How To Break Out of a Detention Centre
Boy (Costume)
Holiday Inn (Costume)
Human Nurture
For A Palestinian (Set)
Trump L’Oeil
Painkiller
The Poison Belt (Costume)
Give Me The Sun
Funeral Flowers
The 4th Country
Haramacy
Complicité Do A-Level Drama
Out! (Set)
Community
Macbeth (Costume)
All Growed Up
Tender
Pippin
Earthquakes in London
Penguin
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Costume)
The Six of Calais & Ruth (Double Bill)
The Pappy Cabaret Show (Set)
Five Shorts
How To Break Out of a Detention Centre
Boy (Costume)
Holiday Inn (Costume)
Human Nurture
For A Palestinian (Set)
Trump L’Oeil
Painkiller
The Poison Belt (Costume)
Give Me The Sun
Funeral Flowers
The 4th Country
Haramacy
Complicité Do A-Level Drama
Out! (Set)
Clean Break - Tour, 2025
Birmingham Rep & Community Tour, 2025
Shakespeare in the Squares - Tour, 2024
Lyric Theatre Belfast, 2024
UK Tour, 2024
Mountview, 2024
Mountview, 2023
UK & International Tour, 2023-2025
Stafford Gatehouse, 2023
Pegasus Opera Company, 2023
Battersea Arts Centre, 2023
Young Vic, 2023
Riverside Studios, 2023
Mountview, 2022
Guilford School of Acting, 2022
UK Schools Tour & Theatre Peckham, 2022
CPT & Bristol Old Vic, 2022
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, 2022
Theatre Royal Stratford East, 2022
Jermyn Street Theatre, 2022
Blue Elephant Theatre, 2022
UK Tour, 2022
Park Theatre, 2022
The Albany Depftord, 2021
UK Schools Tour, 2021
Platform Theatre, 2019
Birmingham Rep & Community Tour, 2025
Shakespeare in the Squares - Tour, 2024
Lyric Theatre Belfast, 2024
UK Tour, 2024
Mountview, 2024
Mountview, 2023
UK & International Tour, 2023-2025
Stafford Gatehouse, 2023
Pegasus Opera Company, 2023
Battersea Arts Centre, 2023
Young Vic, 2023
Riverside Studios, 2023
Mountview, 2022
Guilford School of Acting, 2022
UK Schools Tour & Theatre Peckham, 2022
CPT & Bristol Old Vic, 2022
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, 2022
Theatre Royal Stratford East, 2022
Jermyn Street Theatre, 2022
Blue Elephant Theatre, 2022
UK Tour, 2022
Park Theatre, 2022
The Albany Depftord, 2021
UK Schools Tour, 2021
Platform Theatre, 2019
Dir. Anna Herrmann
Dir. Alice Chambers
Dir. Sioned Jones
Dir. Dean Johnson (BYMT)
Dir. Pavlos Christodoulou (Phosphoros)
Dir. Michelle Payne
Dir. Barry Fitzgerald
Dir. Amy Golding
Dir. Sean Turner
Dir. Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong
Dir. Kwami Odoom (Pappy Show)
Dir. Various (Creators Programme)
Dir. Nico Vaccari (Béznă Theatre)
Dir. Tom Hughes
Dir. Nigel West
Dir. Rob Watt (Theatre Centre)
Dir. Aaron Kilercioglu
Dir. Oli Savage
Dir. Toby Clarke
Dir. Becca Chadder
Dir. Majid Mehdizadeh
Dir. Jess Edwards
Dir. Gabriella Bird (Plain Heroines)
Artist Residency (Commun)
Co-devised (Complicité)
Dir. Maya Ross Russell
Dir. Alice Chambers
Dir. Sioned Jones
Dir. Dean Johnson (BYMT)
Dir. Pavlos Christodoulou (Phosphoros)
Dir. Michelle Payne
Dir. Barry Fitzgerald
Dir. Amy Golding
Dir. Sean Turner
Dir. Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong
Dir. Kwami Odoom (Pappy Show)
Dir. Various (Creators Programme)
Dir. Nico Vaccari (Béznă Theatre)
Dir. Tom Hughes
Dir. Nigel West
Dir. Rob Watt (Theatre Centre)
Dir. Aaron Kilercioglu
Dir. Oli Savage
Dir. Toby Clarke
Dir. Becca Chadder
Dir. Majid Mehdizadeh
Dir. Jess Edwards
Dir. Gabriella Bird (Plain Heroines)
Artist Residency (Commun)
Co-devised (Complicité)
Dir. Maya Ross Russell
Associate/Assistant
King Lear (Modelmaker)
Nowhere (Associate)
The Gates of Kyiv (Associate)
Trials & Passions of Unfamous Women
The Odyssey (Costume Associate)
Middle (Modelmaker)
Much Ado About Nothing
The Collaboration
L’Orfeo
Hamlet (Jerwood Assistant Designer)
Meet Your Neighbour (Associate & Modelmaker)
My Son’s A Queer, But What Can You Do? (Costume Assistant)
Nowhere (Associate)
The Gates of Kyiv (Associate)
Trials & Passions of Unfamous Women
The Odyssey (Costume Associate)
Middle (Modelmaker)
Much Ado About Nothing
The Collaboration
L’Orfeo
Hamlet (Jerwood Assistant Designer)
Meet Your Neighbour (Associate & Modelmaker)
My Son’s A Queer, But What Can You Do? (Costume Assistant)
Gate Theatre Dublin, 2025
Fuel Theatre - Battersea Arts Centre, 2024
Theatre Royal Windsor, 2024
Clean Break - Brixton House, 2024
National Theatre, Olivier, 2023
National Theatre, Dorfman, 2022
National Theatre, Lyttleton, 2022
Young Vic, 2022 (Broadway, 2023)
Weiner Staatsoper, 2022
Young Vic, 2021
Maison Foo Theatre Company, 2021
Turbine Theatre, 2021 (West End, 2023)
Fuel Theatre - Battersea Arts Centre, 2024
Theatre Royal Windsor, 2024
Clean Break - Brixton House, 2024
National Theatre, Olivier, 2023
National Theatre, Dorfman, 2022
National Theatre, Lyttleton, 2022
Young Vic, 2022 (Broadway, 2023)
Weiner Staatsoper, 2022
Young Vic, 2021
Maison Foo Theatre Company, 2021
Turbine Theatre, 2021 (West End, 2023)
Des. Ti Green
Des. Ti Green
Des. Ti Green
Des. Alex Berry
Des. Fly Davis
Des. Fly Davis
Des. Anna Fleischle
Des. Anna Fleischle
Des. Anna Fleischle
Des. Anna Fleischle
Des. Sam Wilde
Des. Ryan Laight
Des. Ti Green
Des. Ti Green
Des. Alex Berry
Des. Fly Davis
Des. Fly Davis
Des. Anna Fleischle
Des. Anna Fleischle
Des. Anna Fleischle
Des. Anna Fleischle
Des. Sam Wilde
Des. Ryan Laight
AWARDS
Shortlist | The JMK Award, 2024
in collaboration with Amelia Thornber
Finalist | Emerging Exhibition: Set Design
World Stage Design, 2022
Finalist | PQ Studio: Common Design Project
Prague Quadrennial, 2020 | exhibited online
Shortlist | The JMK Award, 2024
in collaboration with Amelia Thornber
Finalist | Emerging Exhibition: Set Design
World Stage Design, 2022
Finalist | PQ Studio: Common Design Project
Prague Quadrennial, 2020 | exhibited online
EDUCATION
BA (Hons) Performance Design & Practice
Central Saint Martins, UAL
First Class Honours (2018-2021)
Foundation: Architecture & Spatial Design
Central Saint Martins, UAL
Distinction (2017-2018)
BA (Hons) Performance Design & Practice
Central Saint Martins, UAL
First Class Honours (2018-2021)
Foundation: Architecture & Spatial Design
Central Saint Martins, UAL
Distinction (2017-2018)
SKILLS
Modelmaking
Costume Drawing
Technical Drawing
Visual Research & Moodboarding
Adobe Design Suite (Ps, Id, Ai, Ae, Pr)
Projection Mapping & Video Design (Isadora)
Digital Modeling & Rendering (Rhino)
Modelmaking
Costume Drawing
Technical Drawing
Visual Research & Moodboarding
Adobe Design Suite (Ps, Id, Ai, Ae, Pr)
Projection Mapping & Video Design (Isadora)
Digital Modeling & Rendering (Rhino)
© Jida Akil 2024