Finn Ross

Finn Ross (* 1982 in Aberdeen ) is a British video designer .

life and work

Finn Ross studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and quickly took over responsibility for projection and video in theater and opera productions. He sees himself as a specialist in live performances and integrates live recordings, recordings and animations, as well as "anything else you can imagine" [everything you can imagine] into a new theater visual language. In this respect, Ross is one of the pioneers of video design on stage. He consciously works in all possible genres, be it spoken theater , musical or opera, from fringe to pop to Broadway. Ross not only supplies his clients with content , but also the technical devices and equipment to ensure that the video projections run smoothly.

Ross quickly established solid working relationships with directors John Fulljames , Rufus Norris , Simon McBurney and Katie Mitchell and has been invited to major stages, the Grand Theater Leeds , the English National Opera , De Nederlandse Opera and the Metropolitan Opera . Ross also works regularly in Austria: in 2010 he made his debut at the Bregenz Festival and in 2011 at the Theater an der Wien . In 2012, the legendary master-and-margarita dramatization by Simon McBurney of the London Barbican Center , on which Ross had worked, could be seen at the Wiener Festwochen . In 2014 he made his debuts at the Burgtheater in Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival . Surprisingly, the artist received the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award twice , although that award does not yet have a category for video design . In 2013 he was honored together with the set designer Bunny Christie for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time at the Royal National Theater in London, in 2014 together with the lighting designer Tim Lutkin for Lucy Kirkwood's new piece Chimerica . Lyndsay Turner's production won a total of five Olivier Awards. A semi-staged performance of Beethoven's Missa solemnis with the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas is in preparation for June 2015 .

Forbidden Zone , Salzburg Festival 2014

Selected productions

• 2009: The Excursion of Mr. Broucek by Leoš Janáček (director: John Fulljames), Grand Theater Leeds
• 2010: Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (director: Rufus Norris), English National Opera (ENO)
• 2010: The portrait of Mieczysław Weinberg (director: John Fulljames), Bregenz Festival , also in 2011 at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
• 2011: Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd Webber (Director: Shaun Kerrison / Anthoula Papadakis), Göteborgsoperan
• 2011: The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten (Director: Robert Carsen ), Theater an der Wien
• 2011: Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Director: Deborah Warner ), ENO, also in 2013 at the Metropolitan Opera New York (Director: Fiona Shaw )
• 2012: The Master and Margarita by Michail Bulgakow (Director: Simon McBurney ), Barbican Center London, then also Festival d'Avignon and Wiener Festwochen
• 2012: The Rings of Saturn based on WG Sebald (director: Katie Mitchell ), Schauspiel Köln and Festival d'Avignon
• 2012: The Death of Klinghoffer by Alice Goodman and John Adams (Direction: Tom Morris), ENO, also at the Met in New York in 2014
• 2012: The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (director: Simon McBurney ), De Nederlandse Opera and in 2014 at the Aix-en-Provence Festival
• 2014: Desireless misfortune by Peter Handke (director: Katie Mitchell ), Burgtheater Vienna in the casino on Schwarzenbergplatz
• 2014: Forbidden Zone by Duncan Macmillan (director: Katie Mitchell ), Salzburg Festival , followed by Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , Berlin
• 2014: Les pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet (director: Lotte de Beer ), Theater an der Wien

Awards

• 2013: Laurence Olivier Award for best stage design (together with Bunny Christie ) for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• 2014: Laurence Olivier Award for best lighting design (together with Tim Lutkin ) for Chimerica

Web links

• Salzburg Festival , short biography with portrait picture
• Behance , presentation of some works using photographs and video excerpts