Lighting Design
a broad range of work covering Musicals, Contemporary & Period Drama, Student Shows and Corporate work, in Repertory, Touring & Non-Theatre Venues. See also
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Theatre Work

2005:

New York Broadway Sweeney Todd

London West End & Watermill Theatre Newbury Mack and Mabel

Nottingham Playhouse Satin ‘n’ Steel, Chicken Soup with Barley
MAC Midlands Arts Centre City
Child

UK National Tour Midnight (Polka Theatre & Watershed Productions)

Yvonne Arnaud Guildford Sideshow (UK premiere)

 

2004:

Sweeney Todd - West End, Watermil and tourYork Theatre Royal A Taste of Honey, Northanger Abbey, Brassed Off
London West End, UK National Tour & Watermill Theatre Newbury Sweeney Todd

UK National Tour & Watermill Theatre Newbury Pinafore Swing  
MAC Midlands Arts Centre The Snow Queen
Oxford Playhouse Peter Pan
Bolton Octagon Twelfth Night

Birmingham Rep Ridin’ the Number 8
Yvonne Arnaud Guildford Candide

The Play House Birmingham The Emerald Cave (site-specific for Language Alive!)

UK National Tour The Bad One (Women & Theatre)

 

2003:

York Theatre Royal Amadeus, Single Spies, Private Lives, Mother Goose
RNCM Don Giovanni
Watermill Theatre Newbury A Star Danced
MAC Midlands Arts Centre The Emperor & the Nightingale
Nottingham Playhouse The Man Who
Duchy Ballet at the Hall for Cornwall The Mousehole Cat & Giselle
Rose Theatre London Carmen (John Doyle Theatre Company for International Theatre Festival)

Yvonne Arnaud Guildford Annie

Arts Educational London Club Tropicana

Arden Theatre  Manchester Cartwright Follies 

 

2002:

Ten Cents a Dance at the Watermill Theatre

York Theatre Royal Piaf, Loot, All My Sons, Babbies in the Woods
Hampstead Theatre After the Gods
Watermill Theatre Newbury Ten Cents a Dance, Fiddler on the Roof
MAC Midlands Arts Centre King, Arabian Nights
Worcester Swan Theatre Frankie & Tommy
UK National Tour Tractor Girls (Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company)
Duchy Ballet at the Hall for Cornwall The Snow Queen & Stepping Out to Gershwin 

Yvonne Arnaud Guildford Cabaret

Arden Theatre Manchester Mad Forest

 

2001:

York Theatre Royal The Blue Room, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Les Liaison Dangereuses, Kafka's Dick, Jack and the Beanstalk
London West End & Watermill Theatre Newbury The Gondoliers

Watermill Theatre Newbury Cinderella and the Enchanted Slipper

MAC Midlands Arts Centre The Firebird
UK National Tour Wuthering Heights  (Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company)

Bicester Army Barracks A Plan to Build  (site-specific for Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company)
Birmingham Rep
Blues in the Night
City of London Sinfonia at the People's Palace Ice 
UK & Eurpoean Tour Rasputin  (Natural Theatre Company)

Yvonne Arnaud Guildford Gypsy

 

 

2000:


York Theatre Royal Behind the Scenes at the Museum, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Othello, Closer
Watermill Theatre Newbury Beauty and the Beast, Carmen
UK National Tour Beautiful Thing  (Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company)
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick Romeo and Juliet, Noises Off, My Cousin Rachel, Dangerous Corner 

 

1999:

The Man Outside for the Arden Theatre - See also Lighting Galleries

York Theatre Royal Romeo & Juliet, Getting On, Little Shop of Horrors, The Cherry Orchard, The Glass Menagerie, Old Mother Millie 
Watermill Theatre Newbury  Irma la Douce, Sinbad 
Arts Theatre London When Pigs Fly

Arden Theatre Manchester The Man Outside, Oh What a Lovely War

 

Pre-
1999:

Into the Woods. For more pics, go to the Lighting Design Gallery

York Theatre Royal Bouncers, Beauty and the Beast, Man of the Moment, Turn of the Screw, Bedevilled (1998); Into The Woods (1997);

Macbeth, The York Mystery Cycle (1996)
Watermill Theatre Newbury Cabaret (1998); Tom Jones (1993)
Norwich Playhouse The Prostitute's Padre, Charley's Aunt, Up and Under (1997); The Entertainer, Hamlet, Inside Trading, Jumpers, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Blood Libel, Kiss Me Kate, Romeo and Juliet, The Last Yankee, The Go-Between (1996).

Everyman Theatre Liverpool Waiting for Godot , Candide National tour with Edward Snape (1993); Othello, The School for Scandal, Much Ado About Nothing, The Man in the Moon, Soul Sisters Melody, Candide (1992); The White Devil, Alice in Wonderland, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Love at a Loss, As You Like It, The Nativity, Let Him Have It (1991).



The Nativity. For more pics, go to the Lighting Design Gallery

Everyman Theatre Cheltenham Kiss of the Spider Woman, Much Ado About Nothing, The Country Wife, 'Night Mother, Crimes of the Heart, Twelfth Night, An Inspector Calls, Hedda Gabler (1985-9)

Yvonne Arnaud Guildford Guys and Dolls (1998), A Chorus Line (1996)

Embassy Theatre London Sweeney Todd (Central School of Speech and Drama)

Playhouse Theatre Guildford Nine, St. Joan the musical, Chorus of Disapproval, Me and My Girl (1997); How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying(1996); Cabaret, Pippin (1995); You're Gonna Love Tomorrow (1985).

Lighting designs have included work for directors such as John Doyle, Irina Brown, Glen Walford, Damian Cruden, Zoe Seaton, Claire Venables, Gemma Bodinetz, Tim Luscombe, Giles Croft and Julian Glover, and work with designers including Mark Bailey, Kit Surrey, Nigel Hook, Elizabeth Ascroft, Paul Andrews, Helen Davies, David Cockayne and India Smith.

Corporate and Event work

 

Culture & Congress Centre Lucerne Switzerland for Zurich Insurance

Royal Albert Hall Christmas Carol Concert (Salvation Army 2002-5)

Royal Festival Hall Christmas Carol Concert (Salvation Army 2001)

Central Hall Westminster Christmas Carol Concert (Salvation Army 1999- 2000) Wembley Conference Centre (1998)
ABB Factory Zurich Switzerland Mind over Matter Symposium ( Zurich Insurance 2000)

Culture & Congress Centre Lucerne Switzerland Corporate Customer & Broker Symposium (Zurich Insurance 1998)
Globe Theatre London Poetry Live at the Globe (R.N.I.B 1995)
Albert Dock Liverpool Installation of Salt Sculptures (1992)

 


Current and Forthcoming Lighting Designs include:
Mack and Mabel  at the Watermill Theatre Newbury, from 18th May 2005
Directed by John Doyle. Designed by Mark Bailey. Box Office 01635 46044, website www.watermill.org.uk

Sweet Charity at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford from 7th July until 16th July 2005
Directed by Peter Barlow. Designed by Roger Ness.

The Importance of Being Earnest at York Theatre Royal from 26th august until 17th September
Directed by David Leonard. Designed by Emma Donovan. Box office 01904 623568, website www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk

Sweeney Todd at O'Neill Theatre New York Broadway, from October 2005 
Directed and designed John Doyle.

The Emporer's New Clothes at the mac Midlands Arts Centre from 18th November until 31st December 2005
Directed by Paul Savage. Designed by Helen Davies.

The Lad Aladdin at the York Theatre Royal from 14th December 2005 until February 2006

Directed by Damian Cruden & Berwick Kaler. Designed by Nigel Hook.

Midnight
38 week national tour for Watershed Productions, starts Haymarket Basingstoke from 23rd March 2005 
Directed by Vicky Ireland. Designed by Gemma Fripp.

 
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