I am a freelance designer of sets, costumes and videos for performance and artistic director of Daedalus Theatre Company. This site is my blog but it’s also an online portfolio for my work as as visual artist, video designer and designer, as well my work with Scale, Daedalus and other collaborators.
Tom Fool at Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre 2006 and The Bush, London 2007. Cast: Liam Brennan, Meg Fraser and Richard Madden Director: Claire Lizzimore, Designer Paul Burgess, Lighting and sound Graham Sutherland. Photo credit: Richard Campbell. 
Deafinitely Theatre’s 4.48 Psychosis – a co-production with the New Diorama Theatre. Set, costumes and video: Paul Burgess. Lighting, Joe Hornsby. Full credits available on Deafinitely website. Photographer: Becky Bailey 
Deafinitely Theatre’s 4.48 Psychosis – a co-production with the New Diorama Theatre. Set, costumes and video: Paul Burgess. Lighting, Joe Hornsby. Full credits available on Deafinitely website. Photographer: Becky Bailey 
Flush by David Dipper at Soho Theatre, directed by Bijan Sheibani. In this photo: Burn Gorman 
Switch ECHO by Adriano Shaplin at WUK, Vienna, directed by Alex Leiffheidt 
Jonah and Otto by Robert Holman, directed by Clare Lizzimore, with Ian McDiarmid and Andrew Sheridan 
Our Country’s Good at The Watermill, Newbury, directed by Alex Clifton 
Shoreditch Madonna by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Sean Matthias 
Deafinitely Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in BSL at Shakespeare’s Globe, directed by Paula Garfield. Sets and Costumes by Paul Burgess. Photo: Simon Kane 
The Red Ballon, written and directed by Carolyn Defrin 
Deafinitely Theatre’s production of Contractions, with Fifi Garfield and Abigail Poulton 
The Rememberers, a live, hip-hop graphic novel, written and performed by Kenny Baraka. Video design by Arnim Freiss using drawings by Cristian Ortiz 
Stranger, by Same Stuff Theatre with perormers Phan Y Ly and Ho Ngoc Bao Khiem, director Rob Hale and scenographer Paul Burgess. BlackBox, Hanoi, World Stage Design, Cardiff, Tara Arts, London, and The Albany London 
Stranger, by Same Stuff Theatre with perormers Phan Y Ly and Ho Ngoc Bao Khiem, director Rob Hale and scenographer Paul Burgess. BlackBox, Hanoi, World Stage Design, Cardiff, Tara Arts, London, and The Albany London 
Other Hands by Laura Wade, Soho Theatre, dircted by Bijan Sheibani, designed by Paul Burgess. Cast in this photo: Anna Orton and Michael Gould. 
On the Rocks by Amy Rosenthal, directed by Clare Lizzimore and designed by Paul Burgess, Hampstead Theatre 
On the Rocks by Amy Rosenthal, directed by Clare Lizzimore and designed by Paul Burgess, Hampstead Theatre: Nick Caldecott, Charlotte Emmerson, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Ed Stoppard 
Remembering the Future, created by artists Carolyn Defrin, Paul Burgess, and Levitt Bernstein architects, at St Paul’s Centre, Hammersmith, and Borough Road Gallery. 
Graeme Mackay, Susan Worsfold and Onur Orkut in Selfish at The Arches, Glasgow 
A Place at the Table, Daedalus Theatre Company. Performed at Camden People’s Theatre, Southwark Cathedral and (in this photo) Amnesty International. Directed and Designed by Paul Burgess.
I am also a writer and consultant for Angkriz Academy, the fiddle player in South London’s premier gay socialist folk band (as far as we know) and other music projects, and an activist with Tower Hamlets Green Party. I also occasionally teach at university level and work on youth arts projects.
I am a member of Equity and I’m on the committee of the Society of British Theatre Designers. I’m also part of the Scene Change and Freelancers Make Theatre Work networks. I helped found The King’s Hall Trust for the Arts, and am currently its chair.
I’m committed to making my design practice sustainable and am a member of the SBTD’s Sustainable Design Group and the Staging Change network, as well as a signatory to, and steering group member of, the Ecostage pledge.
