A designer & community artist based in Manchester, Nerissa designs and makes stuff. She also helps others to design and make stuff.
I design, make & source costumes. I am Director of Design at Aqueous Humour, a street theatre company, in charge of design for all the professional shows and community projects. My shopping skills often come into play as much my technical skills when it comes to obtaining the right fabrics or out of fashion/season items. I have a studio in Islington Mill, Salford, for making costumes & have built up quite a collection of costumes, accessories & wigs at Aqueous Humour which I can use for costume workshops & short projects.
For full listings of theatre design projects, please download my CV.
New for the festive season for 2010, we are proud to unveil our feisty fairies. Life is hard with a tree up your tutu. Designed to be performed on stilts but could be adapted to ground level for low ceiling venues or bad walking surface.
Air Hostesses with the cognitive skills of jelly and the looks of roadkill. The delightful Muffins set off to serve the non-traveling public. You don’t have to fly to be treated like an economy class passenger.
Aqueous Humour was commisioned to work with the M6 Youth Theatre to create a piece of street theatre for the Carnival of Cultures in Rochdale under the title “Where Memories Meet Dreams”.
Devised & Directed by Tom Hogan
I approached the design of the project more like a piece of tv/film than theatre for schools. Having a dedicated space at the PRU was a wonderful opportunity. I was able to spend time turning an unused classroom into a realistic flat for the whole lifespan of the project.
I worked with Bury Met’s Theatre Arts & Performance Project to create the props & costumes for their spy project for Garden of Delights directed/choreographed by Clare Fildes. They created strolling work either on there own or in small groups as well as a static movement piece which involved all of them.
Dare you dabble with destiny? The Revelatios uses daring divinations to divulge your fatal flaws & disclose your future, all within the intimacy of a large public gathering. Aqueous Humour’s show about fortune telling was premiered at Garden of Delights in 2005.
Models with beauty and stunning vacuity attempt to stand out from the crowd. It’s all about being seen in the right places and with the right people. On the run from the paparazzi, they are dazzled by every camera lens just like a moth in headlights.
Summer 2002 proved very busy in Manchester with events for the Jubilee and Commonwealth Games. The Jubilee parade theme was Feast of Delights. Bury’s link country was Tuvalu, a set of pacific islands slowly sinking into the sea.