Elliott is a Canadian set & costume designer working across theatre, opera, and education, based in London. ​
He is a graduate of Edinburgh's Scenehouse Programme and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Design from the University of British Columbia, where he was twice the winner of the Theatre Department's Peter Loeffler Memorial Prize.
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Theatre design credits include Midnight: A New Musical (The Union Theatre) [Nominated for an Off-West End Award for Best Set Design & remounted in Seoul, South Korea], Cartas Vivas (Cervantes Theatre & Teatro de La Abadía, Madrid), and The Seagull (UBC Theatre).
Opera credits include The Boatswain's Mate & La canterina (Buxton International Festival), Rip Van Winkle (Gothic Opera), Giulio Cesare (Bury Court Opera) and Captain Blood's Revenge (Norfolk Into Opera Festival).
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Up next, Elliott will be designing Shorts for the Buxton International Festival, where four brand new 20 minute operas come to life in one evening. Later in the summer, he will also be designing Rigoletto for IF Opera.
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Education is a cornerstone of Elliott's work, and he has recently collaborated with Charles Court Opera and The Opera Story to design an opera for young audiences: Dewi in the Deep (Royal Opera House). He has particular experience working with community groups, having designed the set & costumes for Candide and the sets for Semele and Cavalleria rusticana at Blackheath Halls Opera. He has also designed three children's operas, devised and performed by three local primary schools at the Norfolk Into Opera Festival.
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Elliott has led design workshops with The BRIT School, Chichester Festival Theatre & Half Moon Theatre. He has designed productions at Guildford School of Acting, East 15 Acting School, Italia Conti, and Mountview.
