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Jodie Jew Yates
Jodie Jew Yates is a a designer and maker, based in Cardiff and London and a graduate of Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama’s BA in Design for Performance and University of Arts London’s Foundation in Art and Design.
Jodie Jew Yates’ approach is multidisciplinary, utilising skills
from Photoshop and basic AutoCAD and model making, to
clay sculpting, scenic painting and puppetry. This range of skills informs a practice which has always leant towards integration and participation. Jodie Jew Yates has a particular interest in less conventional theatre – creating experiences which explore the relationship of space to the audience experience in a relaxed and accessible way.
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On Display
Dreams Beyond the Shops
Conceptual site-specific project
This conceptual project looked at the creation of a community-focused performance in a row of shops in Llanishen, Cardiff. My devised story followed each character’s everyday lives working in the shops of their dreams. It involved six different interactive installation experiences in each shop, which transported the audience from the mundane world, upstairs into a dream world. This experience aimed to bring the audience
joy, stimulating their senses, eating nice food, relaxing, and experiencing new things – a taste of a holiday.
• Director: Bridget Keehan
• Deviser and Set and Costume Designer: Jodie Jew Yates
Selected Works
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Consent
by Nina Raine
Realised black box theatre production
‘Friends take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged.’ (National Theatre).
Within this play, director Diyan Zora and I felt the story challenged the audience to make judgments about their own views on consent and relationships. Together we created an intense, claustrophobic concept, urging the audience to become voyeurs of the story
and allegations. This intimate play, in a small space, created an intensely exposing piece of theatre, while providing a layer of security and distance for the viewer.
• Director: DiyanZora
• Production Photographs: Kirsten McTernan
• Set and Costume Designer: Jodie Jew Yates
• Location: CairdStudio,RWCMD
Dreams Beyond the Shops
Conceptual site-specific project
This conceptual project looked at the creation of a community-focused performance in a row of shops in Llanishen, Cardiff. My devised story followed each character’s everyday lives working in the shops of their dreams. It involved six different interactive installation experiences in each shop, which transported the audience from the mundane world, upstairs into a dream world. This experience aimed to bring the audience
joy, stimulating their senses, eating nice food, relaxing, and experiencing new things – a taste of a holiday.
• Director: Bridget Keehan
• Deviser and Set and Costume Designer: Jodie Jew Yates
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage
by Philip Pullman and Bryony Lavery Realised large black box theatre production
‘Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future.’ (Bridge Theatre).
Within this world of magic, each character has a dæmon which
is an external physical manifestation of their inner self. During childhood, these daemons take the form of many different animals and then settle as one through adolescence. All characters must have a dæmon and are tied together - everything that happens to their dæmon happens to them and vice versa. In this production, the dæmons were represented by puppets, either controlled by the characters themselves or an external puppeteer. Reflecting the realistic but painterly set, these puppets were semi-realistic and used natural material finishes to blend seamlessly into the world of the play.
• Director: Zoe Templeman - Young
• Puppet Designer and Maker: Jodie Jew Yates
• Co-Puppet Designer and Maker: Alexandra Kay
• Puppet Makers: Lily Gardner, Marcha Goodchild, Genevieve Norridge, Robyn Smart, Nico Venables, Milly Williams, Xi Ding, Abi Stushnoff
• Set and Costume Designer: Amy Lewis
• Photographer: Kirsten McTernan
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