Zerlina Hughes

Zerlina founded Studio ZNA, in 2006, and has over 30 years’ not only in the fields of architecture and design, but across theatre, opera and film. Early in her career, she worked as an assistant to film director Mike Leigh on ‘Naked’, ‘Career Girls’ and ‘Secrets and Lies’. Zerlina was also lighting design consultant in London for Warner Bros’ ‘Batman Begins’. Her designs for performance include projects at the National Theatre, in London’s West End, on New York Broadway and for The Sydney Opera House. In opera and dance, Zerlina has worked extensively across Europe – and particularly in France, Italy, Denmark and Sweden. She founded her studio in order to build a team of specialists who could offer a unique combination of technical, creative and cultural knowledge and design illumination. The practice is highly collaborative and values clarity and communication in its team-based approach, ensuring its high standards of creativity are seamlessly integrated alongside the work of architec