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
Current & Forthcoming Lighting DesignsLighting Design Galleries
Member of the Association of Lighting Designers
Member of the United Scenic Artists Local USA-829
Theatre Work
 2007:

Martin Guerre, Watermill Theatre North American Tour Sweeney Todd (for Richard Frankel Productions)

 Hamburg Operettenhaus Ich War Noch Niemals in New York (for Stage Entertainment)

 Asia Tour Spongebob Squarepants The Musical (for Broadway Asia)

 Manchester Royal Exchange Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

 York Theatre Royal Sinbad The Sailor

 Watermill Theatre Newbury Martin Guerre

 Yvonne Arnaud Guildford A Chorus Line

 Graeae Theatre  Whiter Than Snow, The Flower Girls

 Nottingham Playhouse Whisky Galore

 Salisbury Playhouse Indian Ink



 2006:

 London West End Steptoe and Son

 London West End & UK National Tour Mack and Mabel

 UK National Tour Sweeney Todd

 Manchester Royal Exchange Mary Barton
 Watermill Theatre Newbury
Hot MikadoYork Theatre Royal Pygmalion, Art, Cinderella

 Nottingham Playhouse All Quiet on the Western Front, The White Album

 Nottingham Lakeside The Retirement of Tom Stevens

 Yvonne Arnaud Guildford Oklahoma

 Theatre Clwyd  Beauty & The Beast

 The Play House Birmingham The Selkie Girl


2005:

New York Broadway Sweeney Todd
Watermill Theatre Newbury Mack and Mabel

Nottingham Playhouse Satin ‘n’ Steel, Chicken Soup with Barley

York Theatre Royal Steptoe and Son, The Lad Aladdin

New Wolsey Ipswich Sleeping Beauty Rock ‘n’ Roll panto

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 TheatreYork 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:

Nativity, Liverpool EverymanYork 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).
Into the Woods. For more pics, go to the Lighting Design GalleryEveryman 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 2002-7)

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:
Sweeney Todd North American tour for Richard Frankel Productions from 3rd September 2007until April 2008  
Directed and designed John Doyle.

Sinbad the Sailor at the York Theatre Royal from 13th December 2007 until 2nd February 2008
Directed by Damian Cruden & Berwick Kaler. Designed by Phil R Daniels and Charles Cusick Smith

Twinkle Little Star at the Lakeside Arts Centre Nottingham from 15th until 26th January then on tour until 29th March 2008
Directed by Matt Aston and Damian Cruden. Designed by Mark Walters

Secret Garden at the Electric Theatre Guildford from 7th until 16th Feburary 2008
Directed by Gerry Tebbut. Designed by Colin Mayes

Secrets at the Polka Theatre Wimbledon, from 16th February until 19th April 2008 then on tour until August 2008
Directed by Vicky Ireland.

The Snow Queen at the Hall for Cornwall for the Duchy Ballet from 10th until 16th March 2008
Designed by David Cockayne. 

Three Men in a Boat at York Theatre Royal from 4th until 26th April 2008
Directed by Paul Burbridge. Designed by Sean Cavanagh. Box office 01904 623568, website www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk

A Man for All Seasons at York Theatre Royal from 7th until 28th June 2008
Directed by Paul Shelley. Designed by Nigel Hook. Box office 01904 623568, website www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk

Sunset Boulevard at the Watermill Theatre Newbury, from 9th July until 30th August 2008
Directed by Craig Revel Horward. Designed by Diego Pitarch. Box Office 01635 46044, website www.watermill.org.uk

The Railway Children at National Railway Museum York for York Theatre Royal from 18th July until 23rd August 2008
Directed by Damian Cruden. Designed by Joanna Scotcher. Box office 01904 623568, website www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk

 
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