Jon's Career

Jon Morrell trained as a costume designer at the Central School of Art and Design in London. He has worked in opera, ballet and theatre on more than one hundred productions in Britain, Europe and the USA. He first worked with Nicholas Hytner, the director of His Dark Materials , on the latter’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale at the National. On His Dark Materials , Jon was one of the key members of the small creative team (the others were Hytner himself, Giles Cadle, and the playwright, Nicholas Wright) who met frequently over the twelve months leading up to the start of rehearsals in September 2003 to discuss the text and how to stage it.