About Mim Houghton
Mim Houghton is a London-based Set and Costume Designer working across Theatre and Opera.
Mim was the 2025/26 recipient of the Max Rayne Design Bursary at the National Theatre. In 2026, The Stage named her a designer to watch, describing sets that “cleverly blend the literal and metaphorical”.
Alongside her own design work, she is the Associate Set Designer on Der Ring des Nibelungen at Grange Park Opera (Director/Set Designer: Charles Edwards), which began with Das Rheingold in June 2026 and runs to 2030.
Work
2026
Max Rayne Design Bursary 2025/26
National Theatre
Design Assistant
Electra / Persona by Benedict Andrews
National Theatre
Assistant Designer
(Set Designer: Magda Willi)Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner
Grange Park Opera
Associate Set Designer
(Director/Set Designer: Charles Edwards)1.17am or until the words run out by Zoe Hunter-Gordon
Finborough Theatre
Set Designer
2025
lenny. by Alfie Webster
Omnibus Theatre
Set and Costume Designer
Broadway Showtunes
Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre
Set and Costume Designer
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (adapted by Helen Tennison)
London Library, Piccadilly (site specific)
Costume Designer
Harmony by Sam Thorpe-Spinks
White Bear Theatre
Set Designer
Milked by Simon Longman
White Bear Theatre
Set and Costume Designer
2024
Adore by Rory Francis
Theatre Deli: Shift and Space Workshop
Designer
lenny. by Alfie Webster
Theatre 503
Set Designer
Colder Than Here by Laura Wade
JMK Award Shortlist
Designer
(Director: Zoë Templeman-Young)Chaucer Now (Event) by Creation Theatre
Weston Library, University of Oxford
Costume Designer
2023
A Christmas Carol by Creation Theatre
North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford
Associate Designer
(Designer: Ryan Dawson-Laight)Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Bute Theatre, RWCMD
Set Designer
La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini
Longhope Summer Opera
Costume Supervisor
Rumble Under the Rug by Helen Eastman
Reading Rep Theatre / School Tour
Design Consultant and Maker
Salt-Water Moon by David French
Finborough Theatre, London
Set and Costume Designer
2022
Distinguished Villa by Kate O’Brien
Finborough Theatre, London
Set Designer
Choreograph by Jessica Winter
Music Video
Production Designer
Darkie Armo Girl by Karine Bedrossian
Finborough Theatre, London
Set Designer
Education
2024
MA Design for Performance
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Distinction
2022
BA Production Arts: Stage Management
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
First
2019
Art Foundation
Camberwell College of Arts
Distinction
