BIOGRAPHY
Theatre credits include: STARLIGHT EXPRESS (Troubadour Theatre); & JULIET (Broadway, West End, Toronto, Australia, UK Tour, US Tour and Germany, Tony Award Nomination, Olivier Award Nomination, Winner of the Whatsonstage Award for Best Lighting Design); WHEN WINSTON WENT TO WAR WITH THE WIRELESS (Donmar Warehouse); JUST FOR ONE DAY (Old Vic, West End); A CHORUS LINE (Sadlers Wells, Curve Leicester and UK Tour); ORLANDO (Garrick Theatre, West End); THE LITTLE BIG THINGS (Soho Place); 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL (Savoy Theatre, West End, Australia, Korea and UK Tour); STRICTLY BALLROOM (Piccadilly Theatre, West End); ROMEO AND JULIET (dir. Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford, Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, Garrick Theatre, West End); WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT (Birmingham Rep); IN DREAMS (Leeds Playhouse and Toronto); I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY (UK Tour); LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, 101 DALMATIANS, THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, ON THE TOWN (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); GUYS AND DOLLS, KISS ME KATE (Sheffield Crucible); GASLIGHT (UK Tour); STEEL MAGNOLIAS (UK Tour); TITANIC (UK and World Tour); THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 3/4 THE MUSICAL (Ambassadors Theatre, West End; Menier Chocolate Factory and Leicester Curve); IN THE HEIGHTS (Kings Cross Theatre); a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Athens, Oslo, Bucharest, Middle East); PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); THE RIVALS (Bristol Old Vic); THE LAST FIVE YEARS dir. Jason Robert Brown (The Other Palace); LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (Aarhus Theatre, Denmark); RENT (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester); GASLIGHT (Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto); HERDING CATS (Soho Theatre); JERSEY BOYS (Dubai Opera House and International Tour); DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, EDUCATING RITA (English Theatre Frankfurt); CORNELIUS (59E59, New York); A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, CRAZY FOR YOU (& UK Tour), TELL ME ON A SUNDAY (& UK Tour), OLIVER!, THE SECRET ADVERSARY (& UK Tour) (Watermill); THE SHOW MUST GO ON! - LIVE AT THE PALACE (Palace Theatre, West End).
Opera credits include: DON PASQUALE (Opera Lorraine, France); ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Bologna, Trieste, Venice); RIGOLETTO, STREET SCENE (Opera North); WRITTEN ON SKIN (Opera Philadelphia, USA); THE MONSTROUS CHILD, ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (Linbury. Royal Opera House); THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, MANSFIELD PARK (Grange Festival); THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, THE BARTERED BRIDE, FANTASIO, VERT-VERT, FIDELIO (Garsington Opera); DIE FLEDERMAUS, LAKME, LA BOHEME (Opera Holland Park).
Awards and Nominations include:
Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for & JULIET
Nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for & JULIET
Winner of the Whatsonstage Award for Best Lighting Design for & JULIET
Nominated for Whatsonstage Award for Best Lighting Design
IN THE HEIGHTS, THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, & JULIET
Named as one of 10 'Rising Stars' in The Stage 100
CURRENT AND UPCOMING WORK
& JULIET
Shaftesbury, West End
Princess of Wales, Toronto
Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Broadway
Regent Theatre, Melbourne, Australia and Tour
US Tour
UK Tour
Stage Operettenhaus, Hamburg
Dir. Luke Sheppard, Des. Soutra Gilmour, Video Andrzej Goulding
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
World Tour
Dir. Stephen Barlow, Des. Andrew Riley
STARLIGHT EXPRESS
Troubadour Theatre
Dir. Luke Sheppard Des. Tim Hatley Video Andrzej Goulding
HERE AND NOW: A BRAND NEW MUSICAL
Birmingham Alexandra
Dir. Rachel Kavanaugh, Des. Tom Rogers
DON PASQUALE
Opera de Lausanne
Dir. Tim Sheader Des. Leslie Travers
JUST FOR ONE DAY
Toronto
West End
Dir. Luke Sheppard Des. Soutra Gilmour Video Andrzej Goulding
A KNIGHT'S TALE
Manchester Opera House
Dir. Rachel Kavanaugh, Des. Tom Rogers Costume Gabriella Slade
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
Irish National Opera
Dir. Rachael Hewer, Des. Francis O'Connor
LOVE LIFE
Opera North
Dir. Matthew Eberhardt, Des. Zahra Mansouri
NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
Donmar Warehouse
Dir. Tim Sheader, Des. Leslie Travers
GALLERY
CONTACT
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