May Davies || Production Design
On set - The (Un)Holy Trinity
Production Designer + Art Director
Berlinale Talents Alumni
IMDB
London + North West
mayjdavies@gmail.com
Citizenships - British | German | Australian
Represented by United Talent Agency (UTA)
Email: samantha.speirs@unitedtalent.com
Phone: +44 (0)131 381 6113
May Davies is a production designer with a background in fine art, theatre design and socially engaged filmmaking projects. Her recent credits include Rebekah Fortune’s Learning to Breathe Under Water, which premiered at the 60th Karlovy Vary Film Festival and won the 38th Galway Film Fleadh audience award, and Elizabeth Sankey’s Witches, winner of Best Documentary at the 2024 BIFAs.
Parallel to designing, May worked up through the art department to supervising art director of feature films and tv drama on a range of budgets. Art direction credits include Black Mirror S7 - ‘Plaything’ (2024) , Apple TV Series, Surface (2023) and Landscapers (2021) which won a TV BAFTA for best production design.
Alongside her work in film and television, May designs for performance, installation and exhibition including recent commission Ghost Story! Into The Gothic Imagination, an immersive exhibition at the Wordsworth Museum and has over a decade of experience supporting underrepresented people entering the industry through leading film, art and heritage charity, Signal, based in Barrow-in-Furness in her home county Cumbria. She continues this commitment through mentoring with the BFI Film Academy, UAL, and BAFTA, as well as curating and planning events with the British Film Designers Guild and the Production Designers Collective.