Irene Jade graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 2014, with a First in BA Theatre Design. She lives in Sheffield, and primarily design for theatre in the North West, The Midlands and Yorkshire.

Her work has a bold style, with an emphasis on character. She enjoys creating playful and transformative worlds for the characters to inhabit. 

She is a hands-on Designer with strong designing and making skills. When she’s not designing for Theatre, you can find her sewing her own clothes and hanging out with my two miniature Schnauzers!

 THEATRE PROJECTS

2024 URGENT! A timely play - Set and Costume Designer (Young Company at Sheffield Theatre)

2024 Total Ripple Effect - Set and Costume Designer (Launch Pad at Sheffield Theatre)

2024 Blanket Fort Club - Prop Maker (George Stone)

2024  SPF Creative Families - Prop Maker - (Burnley Youth Theatre)

2024 The Epic Every Day - Costume Maker (Yorkshire Dance Co)

2023 Cinderella, whistle stop tour - Costume Maker (Opera North)

2023 The Fossil Kids -  Set and Costume Designer (Sheffield Theatre Young Company)

2023 Mini Vixen, whistle stop opera - Set and Costume Designer (Opera North)

2023 The Little Mermaid - Set and Costume Designer (Oldham Coliseum)

2022 Robin Hood - Set and Costume Designer (The Dukes Theatre)

2022 Glowing - Set and Costume Designer (Amy Vreke, Contact Theatre)

2022 The Killer Question re-tour - Costume Maker  (Just Some Theatre) 2022 Beryl by Maxine Peake (Oldham Coliseum)

2022 STAN - Set and Costume Designer (Art with Heart)

2021-2022 First Time Tour - Set and Costume Designer (Dibby Theatre and Nathanial Hall)

2021 The Killer Question - Costume Designer & Maker (Just Some Theatre Co)

2021 Theatre and Panto Resource Boxes - Designer & Maker (Oldham Coliseum)

2021 Wind in the Willows - Design Assistant (Designer Nettie Scriven, Derby Theatre)

2021 Aidy the Awesome - Set and Costume Designer (the Gramophones Theatre)

2019-2020 First Time Tour and Edinburgh Fringe - Set and Costume Designer (Dibby Theatre and Nathanial Hall)

2019 Influence - Set and Costume Designer (Leeds Playhouse)

2019 Golden Years Caravan - Set and Costume Designer (Art with Heart)

2019 Refract Festival - Designer and Maker (Waterside Art Centre)

2019 Drawing the Line - Set and Costume Designer (Hidden Track Theatre Co, The Albany, Deptford)

2019 Same Same Different - Set and Costume Designer (Naomi Sumner, Brush Stroke Order)

2019 If all the World were Paper - Set and Costume Designer (Big Window Theatre Company)

2019 Put Big Light On - Designer (The Lowry Learning and Engagement, in collaboration with Walk The Plank)

2019 Antarctica - Set and Costume Designer (Laura Bowler, Manchester Camerata, HOME Theatre)

2018 First Time - Set and Costume Designer (Dibby Theatre and Nathanial Hall, Waterside Arts Centre)

2018 O Go My Man & The Memory of Water - Set and Costume Designer (ALRA North)

2018 When Did You Stop Dancing? - Costume Designer and Maker (What a Little Bird Told Me)

2018 Dr and Mrs Chadwick - Set and Costume Designer (Chadwick Charity , Bolton)

2018 Lena Logged Off - Design Assistant (Bolton Octagon Academy Show)

2018 The Break of Day - Set and Costume Designer (Manchester School of Theatre, HOME Theatre )

2018 The Changing Room - Set and Costume Designer (The Lowry Young Company)

2018 Man of Mode - Set and Costume Designer (Manchester School of Theatre)

2018 Pulse - Set and Costume Designer (Bamboozle Theatre) 

2017 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Set and Costume Designer (ALRA North) 

2017  Zoetrope - Set and Costume Designer (West Yorkshire Playhouse) 

2017  What I Felt Whilst Under You - Set and Costume Designer (Wonderhouse Theatre) 

2017 Standard:Elite - Set and Costume Designer (Hidden Track Theatre) 

2017 Zero for the Young Dudes - Set and Costume Designer (The Lowry Young Company) 

2017 Constellations - Set and Costume Designer (Wonderhouse Theatre, Hope Mill Theatre)

2016 The Christmas Truce - Set and Costume Designer (Northern Rep, 53 Two)

2016 Etta and Me - Maker (Oldham Youth Theatre)

2016 The First Fall of Snow - Costume Designer (Oldham Youth Theatre)

2016 On the Shoulders of Giants - Designer and Maker (Oldham Council, Manchester)

2016 Slingshot - Event Designer (Islington Mill, Manchester) 

2016 Sans Merci - Set and Costume Designer (Play with Fire Productions)

2016 To Walk In Your Shoes - Set and Costume Designer (Red Bobble Theatre)

2016 The Cherished Isle - Set and Costume Designer (Bamboozle Theatre)

2016 Dreamspeaker - Costume Designer and Maker (Knaive Theatre)

2016 The Maids -  Set and Costume Designer (Square Peg Theatre)

2016 Storm - Set and Costume Designer (Bamboozle Theatre Company) 

2016 Enveloped in Velvet - Set and Costume Designer (Basic Space Festival, Ransack Theatre Company)

2016 Orphans - Set and Costume Designer (Play with Fire Productions)

2015 Enveloped in Velvet - Set and Costume Designer (Ransack Theatre Company)

2015 Codswallop - Emerging Creative (Departure Point, Theatre Delicatessen)

2015 Basimah and The Bazaar - Emerging Creative (Bamboozle Theatre)

2015 Roseacre - Set and Costume Designer (Square Peg Theatre)

2015 A Crack in Time - Design Assistant (Dragon Breath Theatre)

2015- May 2015 Along The Riverbank - Design Assistant (Bamboozle Theatre)

2015 One Finger, One Thumb - Design Assistant (Designer- Nettie Scriven, Big Window Theatre Company)

2014 Butterfly - Set and Costume Designer (Northern Nomads Theatre)

2014 Seesaw - Design Assistant (Designer Verity Quinn, Unicorn Theatre)

2014 Arabian Nights - Set and Costume Designer (Black Box Youth Theatre Company)

2013 Inside Out of Mind - Design Assistant (Designer Nettie Scriven, Meeting Ground Theatre Company)

2013 Shiny - Design Assistant (Designer Nettie Scriven, Turned on its Head Dance Company)

2012 Rainbow Stories - Designer, Maker and Performer (Waverley Theatre, Nottingham Trent University)

2011 Laminated - Design Assistant (Designer Laura Cordery, Shooting Fish Theatre Company) 

COMMUNITY ARTS/ WORKSHOPS

2024 Set Design Workshop - Workshop Leader (Sheffield Theatre Young Company)

2024 Costume Design Workshop - Workshop Leader (Launch Pad Group Sheffield Theatres)

2023 Set Design Workshop - Workshop Leader (Sheffield Theatre Young Company)

2021 Theatre and Panto Educational Resources - Designer and Maker (Oldham Coliseum)

2020 Girls and Grannies digital project - Illustrator (The Gramophones Theatre Company)

2019 Intro to Theatre Design - Workshop Leader (Leeds Playhouse Youth Theatre)

October 2019 Model Making Workshop  - Workshop Leader (with MA Directors at ALRA North)

July 2019 Craft Workshops with Knitting Groups across Greater Manchester (Art with Heart)

April 2019 Model Making Workshop  - Workshop Leader (Leeds Playhouse Youth Theatre)

August 2017 Model Making Workshop  - Workshop Leader (The Lowry Open Day) 

April 2017 Up-cycling Costumes Workshop  - Workshop Leade (Oldham Theatre Workshop) 

November 2016, Dark Fairytales Costume Workshop - Workshop Leader (The Grand Theatre Blackpool)

May 2016 Journey to Harmony - Workshop Artist/ Costume Maker (Play Foundation, Austria)

March 2015 Junk Puppets - Workshop Leader (World Book Day, Nottingham City Library)

October 2014 Ignite Futures - Workshop Artist (East Midlands Libraries)

September 2013 East African Playgrounds - Playground Builder & Arts and Play Facilitator (East African Playgrounds, Uganda)

December 2012 Two Little Boys - Workshop Assistant (Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham)

May 2011 Kevin Harrison - Workshop Assistant the artist (Great Ormond Street Hospital)

2011 Wildworks - Workshop Assistant to Carole Beavis (Derbyshire Schools) 

EVENT WORK

2016 Visual Architects - Freelance Seamstress

March 2015 Bamboozle Charity Gala -  Event Assistant

2014-2015 Presentation Design Services - Freelance Seamstress

November 2014 The Society of British Theatre Designers - Event Admin

May 2014 Bread and Circus BA Theatre Design exhibition - Head of Event Identity & Catalogue Design