Ryan Dawson Laight is an established costume and set designer, working extensively in theatre and dance. His work within dance includes Nutcracker (Southbank Centre) Drunk (Leicester Curve/Bridewell); Detention (CAST Doncaster), Wasteland (UK Tour), Coal (UK Tour); Until We Sleep (Sadler’s Wells/International Tour), Good Youts Walk (UK Tour), BLKDOG (Sadler’s Wells); Blak Whyte Gray (Barbican) and REDD (Barbican). Other notable credits include costume design for La Cage aux Folles at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in which he was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Costume Design and awarded the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Costume Design.

Within education, he has been a visiting designer and lecturer at BRIT School (Croydon), University of Chichester, Aiglon College (Switzerland), ALRA, London Studio Centre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Trinity Laban, Tring School of Performing Arts, as well as delivering workshops for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Working Title Films, Chichester Festival Theatre, and his own workshops from his studio, Backstage Design Workshop.

Ryan joins the Memories of the Future team, where his designs will be worn by the 70+ participants from Bradford.