Ostrander Hale — exhibitions, events and rooms, cued to the second.
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productions since 2016
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shows opened late
What we stage
Ostrander Hale is a design and production studio in east London. We make exhibitions, events and spaces for museums, venues and brands, and we run them like theatre: one book, one caller, every change on cue.
Exhibitions
Rooms that change while you read them.
Events
One night, every minute written down.
Spaces
Foyers, lobbies and halls that keep people in.
Launches
A product, a room and the exact moment it appears.
Light & film
Lit on site, filmed on the night.
Shown: the drawing for, and the room of, Tern Comes Ashore, Brannock Marine, 2024
How a show gets called
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Discovery
We read the brief until it fits in one line.
2–4 weeks
Design and rehearsal
Every change is drawn, numbered and timed before anything is built.
6–16 weeks
Build and opening
On the night, nothing happens that isn’t in the book.
1–14 nights
Results
A show report the morning after: running time, numbers, what we’d cut.
The next morning
Forty seconds of Weather Inside
“We had never had a queue at nine at night. By the second week the garden had a second gate.”
Head of Visitors, Halden Botanic Garden
“They gave us a running order instead of a mood board. It was the first time a launch went to plan.”
Brand Director, Brannock Marine
Prices are examples. Every show is quoted from its cue sheet.
Before the warning
How early should we call you?
Six months for an exhibition, ten weeks for an event. Shorter is possible; we’ll tell you what it costs in cues.
Do you build, or only design?
Both. We design, draw the cue sheet and run the build with crews we’ve worked with for years.
Who calls the show on the night?
Our stage manager, from the book, with your team on headsets.
Can you work in an existing venue?
Most of our work is in rooms that weren’t made for it: depots, archives, foyers.
Do you film the work?
Every production is filmed on the night and empty, the morning after.
What if something goes wrong?
It’s in the book too. Every show has a hold cue.
Coming up
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Spring — a reading room that floods with light
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Summer — a launch on a rooftop
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Winter — the depot again