Designer
Yimei is a set and costume designer based in London, working across theatre, dance, opera and film. She graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a first class in Design for Performance. She was one of the 2023 Linbury Prize winners and a resident design assistant at the National Theatre Design Studio in 2024.
Theatre as Designer include: Porn Play (Royal Court); Giulio Cesare (Beijing Poly Theatre); THE HEAT (Sadler’s Wells/ The Lowry/ South East Dance); Chewing Gum Dreams (Theatre503); The Hungry Ghost (The Bush Theatre); The Society For New Cuisine (Omnibus); Before After (Southwark Playhouse); Dare You Say Please, May Day (Set, King’s Head Theatre); Heartwood (Costume, curious directive); Unbound (Birmingham Hippodrome); Absolute Hell (Set, Embassy Theatre).
Theatre as Associate Designer includes: The Hot Wing King (National Theatre); Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Young Vic); An Ideal Husband (Set, Lyric Hammersmith/ Bristol Old Vic); King Troll (New Diorama).
Film as a Designer includes: Flocked Mallard Male.
Porn Play ©Helen Murray
Royal Court
Chewing Gum Dreams @Ikin Yum
Theatre503
Giulio Cesare @Jake Wiltshire
Beijing Poly Theatre
The Hungry Ghost @Corinne Cumming
Bush Theatre
Porn Play ©Helen Murray
Royal Court
The Heat ©Camilla Greenwell
Sadlers Wells/The Lowry/ South East Dance
Giulio Cesare @Jake Wiltshire
Beijing Poly Theatre
Before After ©Danny Kaan
Southwark Playhouse
The Heat ©Camilla Greenwell
Sadlers Wells/The Lowry/ South East Dance
Chewing Gum Dreams @Ikin Yum
Theatre503
The Heat ©Camilla Greenwell
Sadlers Wells/The Lowry/ South East Dance
Giulio Cesare @Jake Wiltshire
Beijing Poly Theatre
