The Night Sky
Creative Direction | Experience Design | Projection Design | Production
AN IMMERSIVE, MUSICAL PLANETARIUM
Client: Sinfonia Smith Square | Year: 2023 - 2025
Combining music, projection and storytelling, The Night Sky was an immersive live experience which explored humanity’s relationship with the stars.
Working across creative direction, design and production, I shaped the audience journey from arrival to finale, creating a unique opportunity to lie down within an orchestra and stargaze.
Narration by NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, Adjoa Andoh and Henry Goodman combined with bespoke projection design and specially-curated music.
My role
Creative Director / Designer / Producer
Developed the creative concept, narrative and audience experience
Curated artistic collaborators
Designed projections and soundscape
Collaborated with actors, musicians and subject-experts
Led production and delivery
Managed budget and key stakeholders
IMPACT
5 sold-out performances in London
2 sold-out performances of an adapted version in Manchester
Attracted a predominantly new audience
Strong audience and press feedback
AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
“The Night Sky is simply glorious . . . The audience remain rapt throughout: there’s none of the usual throat-clearing and programme-turning of a conventional concert. All lie or sit in companionable silence gazing up at the stars.”
The Reviews Hub“Incredibly magical concert last night: The Night Sky, featuring live orchestra playing music about the cosmos, audience lying on the floor on cushions, gazing at video projections of outer space on the domed ceiling.”
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