Jemima is an artist and scenographer with a background in Social and Political Science. She is a former winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design, the Max Rayne Design Bursary at the National Theatre and has been nominated for Best Set Design OFFIE awards. Jemima was resident artist at Kenya’s Kuona Arts Trust in Nairobi and resident designer for Istanbul’s Talimhane Theatre.
Jemima has collaborated with Max Hoehn on Mozart and Salieri, A Feast in Times of Plague & Four Sisters (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Biedermann and the Arsonists for Independent Opera (Sadler’s Wells), Hansel & Gretel for Iford Festival and Handel Furioso for Grimeborn, Arcola Theatre. Forthcoming collaborations include Così fan tutte for Welsh National Opera.
Design credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (RSC), The Majority (National Theatre), The Persians & Cyclops (Cambridge Arts Theatre), I’ll Take You To Mrs Cole! (Complicité), Twelfth Night (Guangzhou & RSC), Frankenstein (Beijing Inside Out Theatre).