Prof Simon Banham
BA (Hons)

Professor
Head of Department (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)
Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies
Contact Details
- Email: shb@aber.ac.uk
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628573
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance Scenographer/Theatre Designer. He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre, Manchester, and has a long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales. Most of his current work is with Quarantine, the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny O'Shea in 1998.
Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at Aberystwyth University.
Additional Information
Appointed Commissioner for Weather and Scenography PQ15 at the Prague Quadrennial International Performance Design Exhibition 2015
The Persians designed by Simon Banham/Mike Brookes for National Theatre Wales won the TMA (Theatre management Association) 'Best Design 2010' award.
Greek designed by Simon Banham) for Music Theatre Wales was awarded 'Outstanding Achievement in Opera' for 2011 presented by Theatre Awards UK.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
Coordinator
Lecturer
- TPM1020 - Space, Time, Material and Form
- TP22520 - Scenographic Composition
- TP22620 - Theatre Design Project
- TP24740 - Scenography Production Project
Additional Lecturer
Tutor
- TP22520 - Scenographic Composition
- TP22620 - Theatre Design Project
- TP31240 - Advanced Studio Practice (scenography)
- TP35940 - Advanced Scenographic Project
- TP24740 - Scenography Production Project
- TPM1340 - Compositional Practices
- TP11620 - Scenography Studio Project
Blackboard Dept Admin
- FM22440 - Directing and Line Producing
- FM24420 - Art Cinema
- FM26220 - Television History
- FM30320 - Contemporary TV Drama
- FM30820 - Advanced Sound
- FM33740 - Documentary Production
- FM34520 - Experimental Cinema
- FM36720 - Media Law
- FM38220 - Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences
- TC32520 - Ffilmiau Dogfen
- TFM0220 - Digital Culture
- TFM0920 - Ecocriticism and Ecocinema
- TFM3600 - Film Producing
- TFM3960 - Film Production Research Project
- TP21620 - Devised Performance Project
- TP33120 - Theatre, Gender and Sexuality
- TP35520 - Ensemble Performance Project
- FM10420 - Making Short Films 1
- FM10820 - Introduction to Post-Production and Editing
- FM11240 - Making Short Films 2
- FM17320 - Writing Continuing TV Drama
- FM17620 - Introduction to Film Production
- FM20620 - Television Genre
- FM39820 - Sales and Distribution
- TC31440 - Ymarfer Cynhyrchu 2
- TC33340 - Ymarfer Creadigol Annibynnol (Cyfryngau
- TFM0800 - Documentary Practices
- TFM3720 - Aspects of Media Law
- TP11320 - Theatre in Context 2
- TP24940 - Theatre Production Project
- TP36000 - Independent Research Project
- FM10120 - Studying Film
- FM10220 - Studying Television
- FM20920 - Creative Fiction: Horror
- FM25520 - Digital Culture
- FM30020 - Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain
- FM34200 - Fiction Film Production
- FM36040 - Independent Research Project
- FM38420 - Videogame Theories
- TC20040 - Ymarfer Cynhyrchu 1
- TC20200 - Prosiect Ymchwil Ymarferol
- TC21820 - Ffilm a Chyfryngau Cymru
- TC22420 - Ffilmiau Dogfen
- TFM6520 - Advanced Media Production Skills
- TP21220 - Acting: Process and Performance
- TP22620 - Theatre Design Project
- TP24740 - Scenography Production Project
- TP32820 - Place, Space and Landscape
- TP36040 - Independent Research Project
- TPM1540 - Creative Production Project
- FM21320 - Stardom and Celebrity
- FM21620 - Writing for Film and Television
- FM25420 - Creative Studio
- FM33540 - Experimental Media Production
- FM38320 - Gender and the Media
- TC26220 - Theatr Gyfoes yng Nghymru
- TC31320 - Cynhyrchiad Annibynnol
- TFM0720 - 16mm Filmmaking
- TFM3640 - Film Producing
- TFM4520 - Case Studies in Film History
- TP21820 - Directors' Theatre: Staging Modern Drama
- TP22520 - Scenographic Composition
- FM11120 - Movements in Film History
- FM20240 - Film Craft
- FM21920 - Advertising
- FM27120 - Writing Audio Drama
- FM37020 - Scriptwriting 1
- TFM0120 - Gender and Media Production
- TFM0840 - Documentary Practices
- TFM6420 - Introduction to Media Production Skills
- TP11020 - Theatre in Context 1
- TP11720 - Scenography Site Project
- TP19820 - Theatre Technologies
- TP26220 - Contemporary Theatre in Wales
- TPM0860 - Research Project
- TPM1820 - Engaging Publics
- FM20120 - LGBT Screens
- FM33700 - Documentary Production
- TC31920 - Ffilm a Chyfryngau Cymru
- TC33300 - Ymarfer Creadigol Annibynnol (Cyfryngau
- TC36220 - Theatr Gyfoes yng Nghymru
- TFM3520 - Exhibiting Film
- TP11120 - Studio Theatre Project
- TP22320 - Principles of Scenography
- TP38140 - Independent Production Project
- FM10520 - Making Short Films 1
- FM10720 - Studying Communication
- FM22400 - Directing and Line Producing
- FM23820 - Work in the Media Industries
- FM33500 - Experimental Media Production
- FM36000 - Independent Research Project
- FM37120 - Scriptwriting 2
- FM37520 - Advanced Cinematography and Production Design
- TC21300 - Sgiliau Sgriptio
- TC21320 - Sgiliau Sgriptio
- TC36100 - Prosiect Ymchwil Creadigol
- TP11420 - Site-Specific Performance Project
- TP34640 - Playwriting
- TP39020 - Musical Theatre Dramaturgies
- FM10620 - Studying Media
- FM20200 - Film Craft
- FM22620 - Media, Politics and Power
- FM26520 - Creative Documentary
- FM30920 - Advanced Editing
- FM34120 - Media Semiotics
- FM34240 - Fiction Film Production
- TC20220 - Prosiect Ymchwil Ymarferol
- TC26520 - Dogfen Greadigol
- TC36140 - Prosiect Ymchwil Creadigol
- TFM1060 - Practice Research Project
- TFS0000 - Abroad Year Credits
- TP20420 - Theatre and Contemporary Society
- TP23820 - New Media Performance
- TP25920 - Acting for Camera
- TP33420 - Performance and Architecture
- TP36220 - Contemporary Theatre in Wales
Scenography and Theatre Design.
Research
Scenography as a co-author in the creation of performances. Scenography as alternative and co-dependent 'text', with Quarantine theatre company: issues and territory surrounding working with 'experts of the everyday', untrained performers, creating a highly theatricalised anti theatrical aesthetic, relational environments, and a desire to create 'situations' in work that is situated on the borders of theatre and dance. The integration of a relational scenography within the creation and commissioning of contemporary Opera/music Theatre.