lighting reasearch

The role of the lighting designer
"The most basic job of the lighting designer is to illuminate the action on the stage so the audience can actually see what’s happening.

"You can make fantastic pictures out of lights, and you’re working in exciting theatres."

"Beyond that, it’s about helping tell the story, either by focusing on certain people on the stage, or giving an atmosphere or a mood, suggesting a time of day, reacting to the music.
"You work with the director and the set designer to create visual stage pictures, which hopefully enhance the storytelling and the audience’s connection to it."
"Lighting design is kind of art for people who can’t draw. You can make fantastic pictures out of lights, and you’re working in exciting theatres on different levels from opera to theatre to dance.
"You’re involved in creative teams and making the whole thing happen, but you’re also involved in the technical side (it’s realised by electrical and mechanical equipment and you have to understand how that works), so I do enjoy the balance of the technical side and the artistic side.
"I have a foot in the camp with the director and the actors, but also with the crew, the technicians, so you’re sort of covering all aspects of theatre, and I enjoy that."