RANDOM WINNER FOR UK'S ONLY PRIZE FOR STAGE DESIGN
Winner of the Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design announced

17 November, 2005, London: Patrick Burnier has won the Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design 2005, it was announced last night at the National Theatre.

His designs for Origin, a forthcoming production for Random Dance won him the prize, following a UK-wide competition to discover the most exciting young stage design talent.

Stage designer Stefanos Lazaridis presented the prize in front of a 200 strong audience which included Nicholas Hytner, Artistic Director of the National Theatre, Tony Hall, Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House, Monica Mason, Director of the Royal Ballet and David Lan, Artistic Director of Young Vic, as well as other VIP guests including Donald Sinden and Wayne Sleep.

Stefanos Lazaridis, said: "Patrick Burnier- a real winner. Thanks to the Linbury prize, new exciting talent is being discovered. The next generation of British theatre designers is in safe hands."

In total four Linbury winners were announced. These were:

	Patrick Burnier (Overall Winner) Origin with Random Dance
	Phil Brunner All Quiet on the Western Front at Nottingham Playhouse
	Hannah Clarke The Emperor Jones at the Gate Theatre
	James Cotterill Not the End of the World at Bristol Old Vic

The four winners will share around £50,000 in prize money and design commissions. Designs and models by the four winners and the eight finalists can be seen at:

Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design Exhibition
Until 10 December 2005
Lyttleton Circle Foyer
National Theatre SE1
Opening Hours: 1000hrs - 2300hrs. Closed Sundays.
Admission free
www.linburybiennial.org.uk

The Linbury Biennial, founded in 1987 by Anya Sainsbury, is the only prize of its kind in the UK. It gives recently graduated stage designers an unparalleled opportunity to work with professional theatre companies and collaborate with writers, directors and technical teams. The Linbury Biennial has launched the careers of many well-known stage designers. These include Tim Hatley, winner of an Olivier award for Humble Boy and a Tony for Private Lives; Anthony Ward, designer for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Stuart; Vicki Mortimer, designer for Closer and Jumpers at the National Theatre and Adam Wiltshire, whose designs will be used by choreographer Alastair Marriott on the main stage at the Royal Opera House from 28 November.

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High-resolution Pictures
Pictures of the winners and work from the Linbury Biennial exhibition will be available from http://www.kallaway.co.uk/linbury_2005_comp_winners.htm on Thursday 17 November or on request from Anna Cusden before this date. Pictures of the 12 finalists and the four artistic directors, set designs and commissioning company productions from the 2003 Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design can also be downloaded for your use.
View and download images: http://www.kallaway.co.uk/linbury_picture_library.htm

Linbury Biennial Press And Competition Information
Anna Cusden (media) anna.cusden@kallaway.co.uk020 7221 7883
David Nagle (competition) david.nagle@kallaway.co.uk020 7221 7883

Notes To Editors
The Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design was founded by Anya Sainsbury in 1987. The prize is open to recent graduates from theatre design courses across the country, many of whom are originally from outside the UK. Twelve finalists get the chance to work with four professional performing arts production companies and exhibit their work at the National Theatre. Four of the 12 win a commission to realise their designs with the commissioning companies and one designer is awarded the overall winner's title. The Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design is sponsored by the Linbury Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts.

Patrick Burnier
Patrick studied in Switzerland and France before completing a postgraduate theatre design course at the Motley Theatre Design Course in 2004. His designs have previously been used for The Balcony at Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris by director Sebastien Rajon and Night Just Before The Forests at the Arcola Theatre in London by director Serdar Bills.

Origin by Random Dance
Resident company at Sadler's Wells, Random Dance has become a creative frontrunner on the British and international dance scene, renowned the world over for its extraordinary innovations in dance. Working in collaboration with Artistic Director Wayne McGregor and Lighting Designer Lucy Carter, Patrick Burnier has produced designs for Origin, a new professional full-length dance work for young people that will build on the success of previous shows for children by McGregor. The work will focus on giving young people the opportunity to engage with high quality, multi-disciplinary, non-literal dance for which Random has gained an international reputation, and as a result will enable young people to access curricular subjects through the creativity of dance.

Lady Anya Sainsbury CBE, Chair of the Linbury Biennial Committee.
After a distinguished career as Anya Linden with the Royal Ballet Company from 1951 to 1965, becoming a ballerina in 1958, she retired from the company and went on to study stage design at the Slade School of Art. She married John Sainsbury in 1963 and has continued to be actively involved in the Royal Ballet School and the Rambert School, both as a teacher and on their governing bodies.

About the Linbury Trust
The Linbury Trust is a charitable trust; it was established by Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover KG, and his wife Anya, Lady Sainsbury, CBE. The trustees of the Linbury Trust make grants to organisations and towards causes across a broad range of categories, including the Arts and Art Education, Social Welfare, Education, Environment and Heritage, Older People, Medical, and Developing Countries. Trustees give priority to causes in which they have a particular interest and where they have particular knowledge and experience, as exemplified by their support for the Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design

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