Bringing stories to life — from screen to stage.

Caitlin Rachel Mills
Freelance Production Designer & Set Builder
Production and Stage Manager
Phone:
07521947202
Email:
Based:
North East
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A Bit About Me
Graduate in (BA Hons, 1st Class) Production Design for Stage and Screen at The Northern School of Art
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I am a Freelance Production designer, Set Builder and Stage Manager working within the Entertainment industry on a variety of projects including Short Films, Feature films, Events, Theatre and Touring productions. With a comprehensive skill set from Script breakdowns, research and analysis, to designing, Set construction, prop making, prop sourcing and set dressing. I am experienced when working with and managing department budgets, as well as leading a team and collaborating with other departments.
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I have worked on location and in studio like environments adapting spaces for camera. With a great eye for detail and a passion for creating high quality productions.
I am a very organised, creative and enthusiastic individual with great communication skills, that enables me to effectively lead a group of people and take on management responsibilities. I like a challenge and am able to problem solve. I love working with like minded people who have a passion for all things creative!
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I have a specialist focus on sustainability and try to use sustainable methods within all areas of my practice.
EMPLOYMENT
August 2025 - April 2026
Production Manager for The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa, Artistic Director: Sue Moore, General Manager: Robin Boyd.
March - April 2026
March - April 2026
February - March 2026
December 2025 - January 2026
December 2025
November - December 2025
October - November 2025
October 2025
August - October 2025
August - October 2025
May - September 2025
July 2025
July 2025
April - June 2025
March 2025
November - December 2024
September - October 2024
August - September 2024
September 2024
August 2024
June - July 2024
June 2024
April 2024 - June 2024
March 2024 - April 2024
January 2024
January 2024
November 2023 - December 2023
November 2023
August 2023
June 2023 - July 2023
June 2023 - July 2023
February 2023 - March 2023
November 2022
September 2022 - October 2022
September 2022
July 2022 - September 2022
July 2022
April 2022 - June 2022
March 2022
February 2022
October 2021 - November 2021
October 2021
October 2021
June 2021
March 2021
January 2020
January 2020
October 2019
February 2019 - May 2019
April 2019
November 2018 - January 2019
September 2016 - September 2017
Set Designer & builder for 'Pontypool' The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa, Director: Hannah Brown, Artistic Director: Sue Moore.
Set Designer & builder for 'Frozen' The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa, Director: Dave Crossfield, Assistant Director: Joanna Stevley, Artistic Director: Sue Moore.
Set Builder & Scenic Painter for 'Doubt - A parable' The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa, Director: Chris Gilbey-Smith , Artistic Director: Sue Moore.
Set Designer & Builder for 'Animal Farm' The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa, Director: Mark Crossley , Artistic Director: Sue Moore.
Event Dresser for 'Jingle Bars, Pop up Event' The Collective, Mell Square Solihull. Event Organiser: Showon Ltd.
Set Builder & Scenic Painter for 'Dancing at Lughnasa' The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa, Director: Tom 'O Connor , Artistic Director: Sue Moore.
Set Designer and Builder for 'The Cage Protects me' The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa, Director: Giles Allen - Bowden, Artistic Director: Sue Moore, General Manager: Robin Boyd.
Scenic Prop Maker for 'Shrek the Musical' Youth Theatre School, West Midlands. Art Director: Amy Carroll.
Production Designer for 'The Ungrieved' Tranquilmoon Productions Ltd, London. Producer: Andrew Rolfe, Director: David Gregory.
Set Builder for 'Beginning' The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa, Director: Viki Betts, Artistic Director: Sue Moore, General Manager: Robin Boyd.
Production Designer & Set Builder for 'Canal Street, Lonely Hearts Club', Qweerdog Theatre, At Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, Writer: Jonathan Harvey, Director: Stewart Campbell.
Art Workshop Teacher for Art Group Studios, Summer Art Camp Workshops, Leamington Spa. Studio Manager: Jessica Mallorie.
Production Designer for 'Fleshwork' Music Video, Band: Pupil Splicer, Manchester and Nantwich. Producer/ Director: David Gregory, DOP: Ian Coulson.
Production Designer for 'The Day the Moon fell', EMRJ Entertainment, Devon/ Cornwall. Producer: Rebecca Hirani, Director: Sam Green, DOP: Raffaele Nocerino.
Production Designer for 'Double Kill', EMRJ Entertainment, Kent. Producer: Rebecca Hirani, Director: Michael Hoad, DOP: Raffaele Nocerino.
Production Designer for 'A Mary Christmas', EMRJ Entertainment, Southampton. Producer: Rebecca Hirani, Director: Sam Green, DOP: Raffaele Nocerino.
Production & Stage Manager for 'Othello', Elysium Theatre company. Northern Tour, Durham Shakespeare Festival. Director: Jake Murray.
Set & Costume Designer for 'Othello', Elysium Theatre company. Northern Tour, Durham Shakespeare Festival. Director: Jake Murray.
Production Designer for 'Knightfall', Shogun Films. London. Producer: Jonathan Sothcott. Director: Ben Fortune, DOP: James Westlake.
Production Designer for 'Doctor Plague', Shogun Films. London. Producer: Jonathan Sothcott. Director: Ben Fortune, DOP: James Westlake.
Production Designer for 'Hippo's Vengeance', EMRJ Entertainment Ltd. Wales and Oxfordshire. Producer: Rebecca Hirani, Director: Sam Green, DOP: Raffaele Nocerino.
Production Designer for 'BAIT', EMRJ Entertainment Ltd. London. Producer: Rebecca Hirani, Director: Andrea Maria Cainella, DOP: Raffaele Nocerino.
Assistant Production Designer for 'Peter Pan Neverland Nightmare', Jagged Edge Productions. Herefordshire. Production Designer: Bridget Milesi, Director: Scott Jeffrey.
Production Designer for 'Zombies of the Third Reich', EMRJ Entertainment. Cheshire. Producer: Rebecca Hirani, Director: David Gregory.
Production Assistant and Stage Manager for 'Amplified', Transition Stage Company. Birmingham Hippodrome. Producer: Natalie Yesufu Edwards and Adi Gordon.
Production Assistant and Stage Manager for 'Enter.Stage.Write', Transition Stage Company. Birmingham Hippodrome. Producer: Natalie Yesufu Edwards and Adi Gordon.
Production Designer and Set Builder for 'Jailbroken', Talkinglens Productions. Leeds, Prime Studios. Director: Vasily Chuprina, DOP: Mark Nutkins
Production Designer for 'The White Road, Ep 5', Manchester, Producers: Jamie Walsh and Hannah Ellis Ryan, DOP: Grant Archer.
Production Designer Assistant for 'Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2', Jagged Edge Productions. London. Production Designer: Jamie Sneddon, Director: Rhys Frake Waterfield.
Stage Manager for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Elysium Theatre Company. Durham Shakespeare Festival and Durham Fringe Festival. Director: Daniel Bradford.
Assistant Stage Manager for 'Macbeth', Elysium Theatre Company. Durham Shakespeare Festival and Durham Fringe Festival. Director: Jake Murray.
Set Designer for 'The Island', Elysium Theatre Company. Northern Tour. Director: Jake Murray.
Set and Costume Designer for 'Reiver', Elysium Theatre Company. North East Tour. Director: Jake Murray.
Production Manager for 'A Dolls House', Elysium Theatre Company. North East and North Yorkshire Tour. Director: Jake Murray.
Production Designer for 'Indignitas', Transition stage Company and Opus Media, Newcastle. Producer: Natalie Yesufu Edward, Director: Darcia Martin.
Set and Costume Designer for 'Welcome to the Jungle', ARC Stockton. Director: Umar Butt.
Assistant Art Director and Set Decorator for 'The Hard Times', London. Director: Joseph Mills.
Set Designer and Set Builder for Feature Film 'Of Infinite Worlds' Alphastar Productions, Nuneaton. Director: Simon Cox.
Set Builder for 'Vagina Cake' produced by Her Productions and Girl Gang Manchester, Hope Mill Theater, Manchester. Director: Megan Griffith.
Art Department Assistant for 'My Door is Always Open' Firewood Pictures, Stratford Upon Avon. Director: Will Dolan.
Set Management and Prop Master for 'Hello and Goodbye' Hexham and Cumbria Tour, Elysium Theatre Company. Director Jake Murray.
Art Department Researcher for 'Nobody's Listening' Short Film, London.
Art Department and Event Dresser for MADSTAR Experience, Geek Retreat, Middlesbrough.
Production and Costume Designer for the production 'Hello and Goodbye', Elysium Theatre Company, Hartlepool. Director Jake Murray.
Set Dressing for online film 'Blackmail - Reiver Tale', Elysium Theatre Company, Hartlepool.
Set Design, Construction and Dressing for a Full - scale Apothecary TV and Film set, Northern School of Art, Hartlepool.
Prop Maker for a BFI funded Script, 'She lives alone', Produced by Candle and Bell.
Prop Maker for Hullabaloo Installation, 'Deep Sea Adventure', Hullabaloo Theatre, Darlington. Designer: Roma Patel
Set Design and Set Builder for the Production of ‘Buckets’, Northern School of Art, Hartlepool.
Prop Maker and Set Dresser for 'Hullabaloo in Wonderland', Hullabaloo Theatre, Darlington.
Set Design and Construction for the Production ‘BOY’, Northern School of Art, Hartlepool
Set design Volunteer at Talisman Theatre, Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
EDUCATION
September 2018 - June 2021
Production Design for Stage and Screen, The Northern School of Art
1st Class (BA Hons)
September 2017 - June 2018
UAL Foundation Degree Art and Design, Warwickshire College
Merit
September 2015 - July 2017
A Levels; Product Design, Geography and Business, Kenilworth School and Sixth Form.
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