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I’ve been back in America this week, lighting Mr Popper’s Penguins at Minneapolis Children’s Theatre. It’s been a great experience, and the Penguins are as well received here as before in New York, Seattle and London. Thanks to Peter C. Brosius and all the staff here who’ve made us so welcome, and used thei […]

Just a few quick photos left over from my first design on the main stage at Sadler’s Wells last month. I was lucky enough to work with Akram Khan and Sandeep Virdee and some amazing Indian choreographers on two nights of dance as part of the Darbar Festival 2018. A significant part of the lighting design was using an installation […]

Great to have the opportunity to work in a new country, as I’m currently in South Korea lighting my first foreign language production of The Play That Goes Wrong. Out here with me Sean Turner, Associate Director of Play in the West End, and looking after the set Jim Paterson Master Carpenter from the Duchess Theatre in the West End […]

Overjoyed that the Pins & Needles production of LITTLE MERMAID that I lit last year at The Egg at Theatre Royal Bath, won the “Best Show for Children and Young People” prize at the UK Theatre Awards last night.
Bea Roberts, Zoe Squire, Emma Earle with Kate Cross, Artistic Director of The Egg were at the event at London&#8 […]

Here are some first look photos of the production I’ve been lighting. A modern staging of JOURNEY’S END by R.C.Sherriff in the GBS Theatre at RADA; directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah with set and costume design by James Cotterill. With strong performances by RADA third years, and much great technical work by the second year st […]

My first experience lighting a show for babies, as Filskit Theatre’s new show Kaleidoscope is designed for an audience aged 6 to 18 months. Following our visit to The Sussex Baby Lab at The University of Sussex to learn about how sight and colour perception develops in the very young, we ran with that idea and the inspiration of Ka […]

Pleased to announce a day we’ve long been waiting for: BBC have finally announced an air date for the Boy Blue Entertainment / The Space film that we made this time last year! Lit by Lucy Hansom and me, Emancipation of Expressionism will be shown on BBC Two this evening as part of a double bill entitled “Darcey Bussell’ […]

Great to be working with Theatr Clwyd again, and with the Guild of Misrule on their immersive production of THE GREAT GATSBY in Mold. They’ve arranged a great building to house the show – The Dolphin Inn, a rooming inn since the 16th Century. It’s a challenge to light using conventional fixtures, as while there’s […]

Just a bit different this week, as we present The Play that Goes Wrong on a thrust stage (for only the second time in my memory * ) at Chichester Festival Theatre. Obviously for a show with a fixed back wall that provides something of a challenge, but luckily Alan Bartlett’s been planning for this date since the tour was announced. […]

Following 8 months on tour last year, the Play Goes Wrong this year too. With a brand new company, we’re sending the tour out from Northampton and Cheltenham (with a rather different week in the middle planned for next week in the main house at Chichester Festival Theatre – in the thrust!). The 2018 company will be out for 9 […]