Terry Parsons

Terry has recently had great success with three brand new productions in Copenhagen – Mary Poppins, Les Misérables (sets) for Det Ny Teater and Treasure Island for Folketeatret.dk. His many other credits in Denmark include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The King and I, High School Musical, Showboat, Be Bop A Lula, a concert version of Grease and Romeo and Juliet.

Terry has designed thirty-seven productions in London’s West End, ranging from the mega-hit Grease – which continues to play in the West End and all over the U.K – Where’s Charley? and The Pirates of Penzance (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), Silly Cow with Dawn French, Gasping with Hugh Laurie, Two Into One with Donald Sinden and Michael Williams, major musical productions of South Pacific, Sweet Charity, Some Like It Hot, Charlie Girl and Singin’ in the Rain and a re-creation of the original designs for Andrew Lloyd Webbers’ production of Daisy Pulls It Off. In 2008 he designed his first ballet Jane Eyre in London.

Well-known for his pantomime designs, among them lavish versions of Cinderella for Stanley Baxter and Mother Goose for Danny La Rue, Terry has recently designed a portfolio of major new star-studded productions – amongst them Peter Pan with Henry Winkler, Cinderella with Mickey Rooney, Snow White with Ross Kemp, Peter Pan with Bonnie Langford and for Christmas 2010, Dick Whittington starring Barbara Windsor.

Extensive earlier credits include When We Are Married with Timothy West, Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge, Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge with Topol, Time and the Conways with Joan Plowright (Old Vic), Miranda with Penelope Keith and Underneath the Arches (both Chichester); No Trams To Lime Street (Liverpool), The Surprise Party with Peter Duncan, Matthew Kelly and Ruth Madoc and Kay Mellor’s A Passionate Woman, Shady Business, A Foot in the Door and Deadly Murder at Sonning. Terry’s earlier international designs include the European premieres of Edward Albee’s The Goat and the award winning Proof (both for Vienna’s English Theatre), Sian Phillips’ concert costumes for Marlene (Broadway), Fame (Scandinavia), Grease (Paris), Chicago (Athens), Blithe Spirit, Move Over Mrs Markham and Sailor Beware (Denmark) and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Visiting Mr Green and Romantic Comedy (Vienna’s English Theatre).