About

Shane Erickson is a designer for theatre and opera based in Cardiff, Wales (UK) and New Jersey, USA.

With a developed approach to collaboration and instincts rooted in experience as an assistant scenic designer, now enhanced by work in costume, Shane is constantly seeking what is most essentially needed to best tell a story. Drafting, model making and digital graphics convey ideas grown from thorough research, unlocking the potential of text, design, and staging to culminate in electrifying and authentic performances.

With the Rutgers Theater Company, he has set designed Masculinity Max, and Antigone. As a student with the Company he also set designed Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play and The Rehearsal. He has designed costumes for Dialogues of the Carmelites and set for Die Fledermaus with the David Seligman Opera School at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Shane has assisted Zoë Hurwitz (Park Theatre, Mercury Theatre, Sheffield Theatres, New Wolsey Theatre), Jess Curtis (Royal Northern College of Music, Derby Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre), Michael Pavelka (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), April Dalton (English Touring Opera, Sherman Theatre, New Theatre), Natasha Jenkins (Cumbernauld Theatre, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs), TK Hay (Arcola Theatre, Royal Exchange Theatre, New Wolsey Theatre), Alys Whitehead (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre) and Bret Banakis (The Transport Group). In the summer of 2019 he worked as an in house assistant at the Janiec Opera Company in Brevard, NC. In addition, Shane has assisted on multiple shows with the Rutgers Theatre Company and The Richard Burton Company. 

Shane is Certified Carbon Literate through the Carbon Literacy Project. He works as a tutor in drafting with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is also a tutor in design with the Young People’s Production Arts program run by the college in conjunction with Bad Wolf Studios.

He received his MA in Design for Performance from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and his BFA in Scenic Design from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.