lighting facts

Working in lighting design
"As an example of my typical day, this morning I did some work on my laptop, doing some design for a show I’m doing in Athens next month.
"That’s just working on plan drawings: thinking of ideas and working out how to realise them practically and drawing lights on a plan to make that happen. That’s an on-going thing that I’ve got to work on and deliver this week.
"Then I went into the theatre to see what’s essentially the next stage in the process. They’ve got my plan and they’re actually rigging the lights in the theatre at the moment.

"You work to create visual stage pictures, which hopefully enhance the storytelling and the audience’s connection to it."

"I went along to make sure everything was okay, to see if they had any questions. We wanted to test a particular light to see what it did, so we did that too.
"At the moment on stage they’re rigging my lights and also building the set, so there’s an army of technicians there putting the whole thing together.
"This afternoon and this evening I’ll be in the rehearsal room, watching rehearsals with the director, looking at what they’re doing and imagining what they’re going to look like under my lights.
"So I get pictures in my head of what each moment is going to look like, which then hopefully I can create on stage later on next week when we put the whole thing together."