Jacobs, Sally

Sally Jacobs, stage designer and director since 1960, has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and designed many Peter Brook productions, including Theatre of Cruelty, The Screens, The Marat/Sade, U.S., A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra and The Conference of the Birds . She has also designed for operas including Die Fledermaus (Paris), Turandot, Fidelio (Royal Opera House), Die Soldaten and Eugene Onegin (English National Opera). She lived and worked as a designer in the USA for fifteen years.

As director / designer her work includes Oedipus at Colonus (Los Angeles), Peter Weigold's Last Tango on the North Circular (Royal Opera House Garden Venture), The War in Heaven by Joe Chaikin and Sam Shepard and she co-directed The Dancing Room filmed by the BBC. She has taught Stage Design at many of the leading Drama Departments in the U.S.A. and London, including the Slade School of Fine Art.

From the guide to the Sally Jacobs Collection, stage designer, ca. 1966 - 1970, (V&A Department of Theatre and Performance)