Amelia Jane Hankin leads studioAJH; a multidisciplinary practice that spans scenography, speculative spatial design and education.

Amelia is an Associate Artist of Shakespeare’s Globe, an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, and a member of Brixton House’s Artistic Advisory Collective. 

Amelia trained in architecture before specialising in stage design at RADA and joining the RSC as the Leverhulme Resident Associate Designer in 2014. Amelia has 17+ years experience collaborating with leading companies, producers and artists across the UK and internationally including Shakespeare’s Globe, The Royal Exchange, Fuel, Donmar Warehouse, RSC, Historic Royal Palaces, V&A, Almeida Theatre, Graeae, Kiln, Young Vic, Chichester Festival Theatre, Bush Theatre, Perth International Festival, Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Zhejiang, Bryony Kimmings and Tiata Fahodzi. 

Amelia has worked across an extensive range of art forms, spaces, scales and locations. Her practice is founded on the belief that space is never neutral and that confronting its politics through work rooted in identity, belonging, community and social justice is paramount. Amelia’s architectural background and specialism in futures world building and spatial storytelling heavily inform her design practice in creating active environments for shared live experience in spaces that are bold and immersive, that invite reflection and transformation and uncover truth through championing conversation.

Stage Designs include; Red Pitch, [@sohoplace, West End], The Crucible and Othello [Shakespeare’s Globe / UK Cinema Release], Mlima’s Tale [Kiln Theatre], Once upon a time in Sokoto [Fuel Theatre], Hit Machine [Soho Theatre], Trans-It, LAD [site-specific, Leicester Curve + Derby Theatre], Richard III [Rose Theatre + Liverpool Everyman Playhouse, UK Tour], Cinderella, Limp Wrist & The Iron Fist [Brixton House], Let the Right One In, Mountains [Royal Exchange Theatre, UK Tour], Red Pitch, The Neighbourhood Project, Wolves on Road, I’m Not Being Funny [Bush Theatre], Hide [site-specific, Donmar Schools Tour], Standing in the Shadows of Giants [Traverse Theatre], Christmas in the Sunshine, Wolf + Duck + Mouse [Unicorn Theatre], Drowntown, Smack That, a conversation [Barbican, UK + International Tour, Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Zhejiang, China], Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads, site-specific, costume [Chichester Festival Theatre], One Under [Graeae, UK Tour], The Fishermen [Trafalgar Studios + British Council Showcase, UK Tour], Emilia [Associate Designer, Globe + West End], Mixed Brain [Paines Plough, UK Tour], Gastronomic [Shoreditch Town Hall, [UK Tour], Unknown Rivers [Hampstead Theatre], Blue/Orange [Birmingham Rep], Road [Northern Stage], Night Before Christmas + Rudolf [Leeds Playhouse], Good Dog [UK Tour], The Wave, This Isn’t A True Story [site-specific, Rose Lipman @ Almeida Theatre], The Comedy of Errors [site-specific, RSC, UK Tour], The Court Must Have a Queen + PowerPlay [site-specific, Hampton Court Palace], Natives, Confidence [Southwark Playhouse], Fake it til you Make it, Bryony Kimmings [UK Tour + British Council Showcase, + International Tour], We are You [site-specific, Young Vic].

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For additional visuals, process work or production photos, please email me.

Amelia teaches within the superFUTURES platform [MA Interior Design] at the Royal College of Art. superFUTURES is a research-led lab that focuses on spatialising futures. For academic work, click here.

StudioAJH is based in London, E8.