Designer
Tomás Palmer is an artist and designer working across theatre, dance, opera and spatial design. Tomás trained at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is a 2021 Linbury prize for theatre design recipient and was the production designer on the BAFTA and BIFA Award-winning short film Too Rough.
As an artist, he has created installations and performance pieces for the Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow), Transmission Gallery (Glasgow) and Embassy Gallery (Edinburgh).
Collaboration and conversation lie at the heart of his process. His work spans both unusual and conventional spaces.
Stage credits include: Run Sister Run (Arcola Theatre); Radiant Boy (Southwark Playhouse); Speed, Dreaming and Drowning (Bush Theatre); Gruesome Playground Injuries (The Glitch); Wish You Were Here (Gate Theatre); Look Back In Anger/Roots (Almeida Theatre); Multiple Casualty Incident (Yard Theatre); London Liberation Squares (Nottingham Playhouse); Blue Mist (Royal Court); The Bacchae (Lyric Hammersmith); My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar (Brixton House); Time Is Running Out,
Night At The Church (Gate Theatre, Cardiff); WINNING (Glasgow School of Art).
Co-designer credits include: Julius Caesar co-design with Rosanna Vize (RSC/UK tour); The Wellspring co-design with Rosie Elnile (Royal & Derngate Northampton).
Screen credits include: The Presenter (Rite TV); Too Rough (Devil May Care Entertainment); The Children (Lamda Films); Dove (RWCMD); The Fabric of You (Screen Scotland).
