Ana Inés Jabares-Pita
Selected credits
- The Wreckers Glyndebourne Festival 2022
- Breaking The Waves Theater St. Gallen, Switzerland 2021
- Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) West End, Olivier Award Best Comedy Play 2022
- Faustus: That Damned Woman Headlong Theatre/Lyric Theatre/UK Tour
- The Lovely BonesWorld Premiere Royal & Derngate Theatre/UK Tour
- Elixir of LoveWaterperry Opera 2021
About
Ana Inés Jabares-Pita is an international award winning designer working across opera, dance, theatre, film and exhibitions. She has an extensive musical training and a keen interest in new technologies, video and illusion. Recent opera designs with director Melly Still include The Wreckers by Ethel Smyth for Glyndebourne Opera and Breaking The Waves by Missy Mazzoli for Theater St. Gallen.
Pride & Prejudice *(*Sort of) transferred to London’s West End in late 2021 for a hugely successful run at the Criterion Theatre culminating in winning the Olivier Award 2022 for Best Comedy Play.
Ana was overall winner of the Linbury Prize in 2013 and a Jerwood Young Designer at the Gate Theatre in 2014. She has worked with many prestigious UK companies including English National Opera, Royal Court Theatre, Young Vic, Royal Shakespeare Company, Headlong, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Royal Lyceum, Gate Theatre, National Theatre of Scotland, Dulwich Picture Gallery and the V&A Museum. Her designs have been seen internationally in Italy, Denmark, Germany, Canada, Spain, Australia and the US.
Featured work
Breaking The Waves
Theatre St. Gallen, Switzerland
By Missy Mazzoli with Libretto by Royce Vavrek
Directed by Melly Still
Set and Costume Design by Ana Inés Jabares-Pita
Lighting Design by Malcolm Rippeth
Photography by Edyta Dufaj
The European premiere of Breaking The Waves, the first large scale opera by composer Missy Mazzoli, winner of the 2017 award for “Best New Opera” by the Music Critics Association of North America and based on 1996 Academy Award-nominated film by Lars von Trier.
The Lovely Bones
Adapted by Bryony Lavery
Royal & Derngate Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Company, Everyman Liverpool, Northern Stage.
Director: Melly Still
Set & Costume: Ana Inés Jabares-Pita
Lighting: Matt Haskins
Sound: Helen Skiera
Composer: Dave Price
‘A mesmerising spectacle’
★★★★ Guardian
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)
Written by Isobel McArthur
Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Director: Paul Brotherston
Set & Costume: Ana Inés Jabares-Pita
Lighting: Simon Hayes
Sound/Music: Michael John McCarthy
Movement: EJ Boyle
Photo by John Johnston
“This postmodern and absurdist production makes the most of Ana Inés Jabares-Pita’s ornate (set)”
★★★★ The Stage
Twelfth Night
Royal Lyceum Theatre/Bristol Old Vic
Directed by Wils Wilson
Set & Costume: Ana Inés Jabares-Pita
Music: Meilyr Jones
Lighting: Kai Fisher
Sound: Gregory Clarke
Movement: Emma Jane Park
Musical Director: Aly Macrae
Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic
‘Magnificent… powerful and hugely entertaining’
★★★★ The Stage
The Wheel
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Written by Zinnie Harris
Director: Caroline Byrne
Set & Costume: Ana Inés Jabares-Pita
Lighting: Liam Strong
Composer: Tasha Taylor Johnson
WOMAN AND SCARECROW
RADA
Written by Marina Carr
Directed by Caroline Byrne
Set & Costume: Ana Inés Jabares-Pita
Composer: Tash Taylor Johnson
Lighting Design: Ben Bull
Sound Design: Herbert Homer-Warbeck
Director of Physical Theatre: Joe Dieffenbacher
