{{Short description|British costume designer}} {{Infobox person | name = Jon Bausor | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Costume designer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Jon Bausor''' is an international stage and costume designer for Theatre, Dance and Opera. Based in London, he is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and designed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games.
== Education == Bausor (rhymes with "Chaucer") studied cello and voice at the Royal Academy of Music whilst attending Warwick School as a choral scholar. Whilst still at school he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Lucius, in Steven Pimlott's production of ''Julius Caesar'' starring Robert Stephens.<ref name="RSC Cast memorabilia">{{cite web |website=phyllis.demon.co.uk |url=http://www.phyllis.demon.co.uk/theatricalia/02rsc/rsc9094.htm |title=Rob Wilton Theatricalia RSC 1990-94 |access-date=2014-09-14 |archive-date=2014-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811030314/http://www.phyllis.demon.co.uk/theatricalia/02rsc/rsc9094.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Following an Art foundation course at Exeter College of Art, where he sang as a clerk in the Cathedral choir, Bausor went on to study Music as a choral scholar at New College, Oxford under the directorship of Edward Higginbottom<ref name="New College Choir, Oxford">{{cite web|website=discogs.com |url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/398337-New-College-Oxford-Choir-The|title=The New College Oxford Choir}}</ref> before training on the Motley Theatre Design Course under Alison Chitty.
== Career == On completing the course, Bausor was a finalist in the Linbury Prize for Stage Design, on the committee of which he now sits,<ref name="Linbury Prize committee">{{cite web|website=linburyprize.org.uk|url=http://www.linburyprize.org.uk/linbury-prize/committee/jon-bausor|title=Jon Bausor | Linbury Prize|access-date=2014-09-14|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070714/http://www.linburyprize.org.uk/linbury-prize/committee/jon-bausor|url-status=dead}}</ref> and went on to design shows in many of London's fringe theatres, including the Arcola and Southwark Playhouse, as well as designing numerous projects with the director William Gaskill.<ref name="Carver, directed by William Gaskill at the Arcola Theatre">{{cite web|website=britishtheatreguide.info |url=http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/carver-rev|title=Theatre review: Carver at Arcola Theatre}}</ref>
Since then Bausor has designed extensively in dance, opera and theatre for companies worldwide including The Royal Opera House,<ref name="Jon Bausor on designing Hansel and Gretel at the Royal Opera House">{{cite web|website=roh.org.uk |url=http://www.roh.org.uk/news/watch-jon-bausor-on-hansel-and-gretel|title=Watch: Jon Bausor on the ballet Hansel and Gretel|date=2013-05-10}}</ref> Royal National Theatre, Abbey Theatre, Dublin,<ref name="Interview on designing Romeo and Juliet at the Abbey Theatre">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdTe8mvPaOw| website=YouTube | title=Costume Design-Romeo + Juliet at the Abbey | date=21 February 2008 }}</ref> Young Vic, Rambert, Royal Court Theatre, Theatre de Complicite and both Finnish and Norwegian National Ballets. He has made regular collaborations with directors including Liam Scarlett, Cathy Marston, Will Tuckett, David Farr, David Lan, Sean Holmes, Simon Godwin, Tim Sheader, Matthew Dunster, Walter Sutcliffe, Adrian Osmond, Doug Varone, Andrea Miller and Arthur Pita. Notable designs include an immersive submarine space for ''KURSK'' at the Young Vic,<ref name="Interview on designing KURSK">{{cite web|website=officiallondontheatre.co.uk |url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/latest-news/article/item116069/backstage-jon-bausor-designer/|title=Official London Theatre - Theatre Tickets, News & Guides}}</ref> a crashed plane for ''Lord of the Flies'' at the Regents Park Open Air Theatre,<ref name="Lord of the Flies, Regents Park Open Air Theatre">{{cite web|url=https://openairtheatre.com/production/lordoftheflies|title=Lord of the Flies :: Open Air Theatre}}</ref> ''Ghost Stories'' (Duke of Yorks/ Arts Theatre, London), and a 2 km long set for ''MAMETZ'' for the National Theatre of Wales for which he won the UK Theatre Award for Best Design <ref name="Mametz, National Theatre of Wales">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jun/27/national-theatre-wales-mametz-owen-sheers-review|title=Mametz review – A bloody battle on the Somme is evoked in a Welsh wood|website=TheGuardian.com |date=27 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uktheatre.org/theatreawardsuk.aspx |title=UK Theatre Awards |access-date=2014-10-23 |archive-date=2014-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225190429/http://www.uktheatre.org/theatreawardsuk.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
As an associate artist of the RSC he has designed numerous productions including Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'', ''King Lear'' and ''The Winter’s Tale'', Harold Pinter's ''Homecoming'' and the entire 2012 ''What Country Friends Is This?'' season.<ref name="Sinfini music interview">{{cite web|website=sinfinimusic.com |url=http://www.sinfinimusic.com/uk/features/series/pieces-of-me/jon-bausor|title=Sinfinimusic - Deutsche Grammophon}}</ref>
In 2012, Bausor designed the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games in London, directed by Jenny Sealey and Bradley Hemmings, and in 2014 was commissioned to create a kinetic sculpture at the Stoke Mandeville stadium to light the flame for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi.<ref>{{cite web|website=paralympic.org |url=http://www.paralympic.org/news/first-ever-heritage-flame-lit-stoke-mandeville-historic-moment-paralympic-movement|title=First ever Heritage Flame lit at Stoke Mandeville in a historic moment for Paralympic Movement}}</ref>
In 2014 he designed the Great North Run Millionth Runner ceremony on the Tyne River in Newcastle,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://greatnorthrunculture.org/aboutcommission?commid=71|title=GNR Million Opening Ceremony - Great North Run Culture - Great North Run Culture|access-date=2014-09-14|archive-date=2014-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914155436/http://greatnorthrunculture.org/aboutcommission?commid=71|url-status=dead}}</ref> and The James Plays trilogy, a joint production between the National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival and National Theatre of Great Britain, written by Rona Munro and directed by Laurie Sansom.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/aug/11/edinburgh-festival-review-the-james-plays-rona-munro-sofie-grabol|title=Edinburgh festival 2014 review: The James Plays – Munro's trilogy is full of topical resonance|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2014-08-11|last1=Billington|first1=Michael}}</ref>
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