Jamie Vartan has designed extensively for theatre & opera. Highlights include, at St Ann's Warehouse NYC, & for Galway International Arts Festival, Arlington; Grief is the Thing with Feathers (& Barbican, London); Misterman (& National Theatre, London), Ballyturk (& National Theatre, London); Medicine (& Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh) and Woyzeck in Winter (Gaiety, Dublin / Barbican, London). Recent designs include Krapp's Last Tape (Project Arts Centre, Dublin/ Adelaide Arts Festival/Barbican, London/Skirball Center, NYC). Opera designs include productions at La Scala Milan, Malmo Opera, Scottish Opera, Royal Opera House London, Parma, Valencia, Strasbourg, Salzburg, Lisbon & currently Rigoletto (Irish National Opera & Santa Fe Opera).
Awards include Best Set Design for Irish Times Awards 2011, 2012 & 2016, & World Stage Design 2013.
Film production design includes The Last Hotel (Sky Arts).