Mo Holden

ADVERTS WORKED ON INCLUDE:
Audi, Renault, Jaguar, Ford, Nissan, Rover, Red Bull, Aga Cookers, British Telecom, Adidas, Glade Candles,
Marks & Spencer, Jane Asher Home Style Show, Electrolux, Maynards, Kinder, Regain, Wine Gums, Anti-Litter
Campaign, Coca-Cola ad for the Olympics.

THEATRE:
Fimbles Stage Show Tour
Resident Designer Alley Theatre - Houston, Texas: model making, drafting plans, paint elevations, costume
drawings, painting scenery, supervision and co-ordination of the design from conception to full production.
Set & Costumes designer: The Bacchae, Beggars’ Opera, All the Way Home, Last of the Mohicans (West End),
Whore’s D’Oeuvres, Blood Wedding, Much Ado About Nothing, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, The Tooth of Crime
(Yale), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Houston Shakespeare Festival.

EXHIBITIONS:
Awarded First Prize for Stand Design and Flower Design at Olympia Casino Exhibition.
Design Consultant at Beaulieu Car Museum rebuild of 1940’s working garage.
Launch of new MGF – styling original MG garage, as it would have been in 1930.
Egyptian Pyramids theme casino, Houston. Colony Club casino, London.

STILLS:
Brent Cross Campaign - Red Cross Appeal - Dorothy Perkins - Ford car shoot - Ready Brek - Marks &
Spencer - Jaguar - Colony Club Casino - Zanussi - Renault Clio - Tissot watches - Jaeger - Royal Mail -
Sainsbury’s - Barclays Bank - Natwest Bank. Lloyd’s Bank - Laura Ashley - Sky Magazine - Mates - Nike - GM -
Red Bull - Halfords - Halifax Building Society - Pioneer Stereo - Fiat Tipo - Nissan - Rover - Crown Paints -
Debenhams - Woolworth’s

COSTUMES:
Ladbrokes - Ladies’ Day at Ascot, specially designed costume.
Insect costumes - stag beetle, butterflies, earwig, damselfly, atlas beetle.
Nestlé - ice queen design & build.
The Bacchae - hand-printed fabric and sculpted wigs.
Costumes for ads include: footballers, skiers, dancers, basketball team

SCENE PAINTING:
Rolling Stones Tour - FM Productions (SanFrancisco)
Hand painted enlargements of Ernst Haekel studies for Liberty’s in London
Mo has done scene painting for companies including: Northwest Ballet (Seattle), Seattle Rep Theatre,
Environmental Graphics (LA), Yale RepTheatre and Oxford Playhouse. Also for numerous ads & TV

PERFORMER:
Street theatre: King George, The Devil, Miss Subarctic, Delight, etc.;
Mo has played a number of characters including:
Pat in Whore’s D’Oeuvres, Mrs X in The Stronger, Beckylou in The Tooth of Crime, a dog in Shaggy Dog Animations,
Yasamoto Japanese Warrior in a Kabuki piece, Daughter in A Child’s Christmas in Wales.

ACADEMIC CAREER:
Double Fulbright Scholarship awarded to study for Masters Degree in USA.
Masters degree in set & costume at the University of Washington, Seattle
Scholarship to graduate drama department – awarded - Yale University
Special certificate in scenic art.
BA(Hons) Theatre Design – Nottingham Trent University

OTHER EXPERIENCES:
Founder member of Omoro Theatre Group: Director, Secretary, Set builder, Writer, performer, Landrover driver
Fund-raiser - grants from the local Arts Council, the Jubilee Fund, and the Manpower Services Commission
Performing in castles, shopping centres, festivals, shop windows, pubs, lifts, and buses
Workshops in the community, including youth clubs, hospitals, old peoples’ homes, blind and deaf institutes,
schools, adventure playgrounds

Special Skills:
Oxyacetylene & spot arc welding, fire blowing, fabric painting and printing, hot wire carving, puppetry,
mask making, prop making, model-making, floristry, Rowing. ARA Instructor Award.