MARK DOUBLEDAY Lighting Designer

Mark trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art where he won the Richard Pilbrow Prize. Mark worked for a year and a half with London Contemporary Dance Theatre before getting his first position as Lighting Designer at the Redgrave Theatre where he lit over fifty productions.

Opera:

Tannhäuser, Teatro Real, Madrid; Kaspar Hauser, Le Nozze di Figaro, Albert Herring, RSAMD/ New Athenaeum Theatre Glasgow; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Finta Giardiniera for RCM/Britten Theatre. The Cumnor Affair, Tête à Tête; Flight, La Rondine, both for BYO; The Cunning Little Vixen, RCM; Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, Mikado, Carl Rosa/Raymond Gubbay/Gielgud Theatre; Blind Date a new opera for Tête à Tête; Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebots at Wilton's Music Hall, Hansel and Gretel for Opera North (education); Tannhäuser, Los Angeles Opera; Lysistrata, New York City Opera; Odysseus Unwound, Tête à Tête; La Vie Parisienne, D'Oyly Carte; Eugene Onegen, MTL; Die Fledermaus, Orlando Finto Pazzo, Shorts, Six-Pack, Family Matters, Tête à Tête; Falstaff, RAM; Le Nozze di Figaro, Opera Zuid, Netherlands; Hansel and Gretel, Scottish Opera on tour; Manon, Die Fledermaus, English Touring Opera; Ariadne auf Naxos, Albert Herring, Aldeburgh; Le Torreador, Messalina, Amadigi, Jonathan Dove's Le Porte di Bagdad and The Lady and the Sweep, Batignano, Italy; La Fanciulla del West, Norma, Opera Holland Park; The Rape of Lucretia, Cosi fan Tutte, RCM; Nitro, Royal Opera (BBCtv) Linbury Theatre; Lysistrata, Houston Grand Opera; The Knot Garden, Istituto di Musica di Montepulciano.

London Theatre:

Little Platoons and The Knowledge, Bush Theatre; Salad Days, Riverside Studios; Kurt & Sid, Trafalgar Studios; Family Man, Theatre Royal, Stratford East; Fast Labour, West Yorkshire Playhouse/Hampstead Theatre; Elling, Trafalgar Studios; The Birds, The Colonel Bird, The Gate; Retreat, Each Day Dies with Sleep, House Among The Stars, Lips Together Teeth Apart, Orange Tree Theatre; The Danny Crowe Show, The Bush; On The Piste, The Garrick, It Runs in the Family, The Playhouse; Kit and the Widow, Vaudeville and Ambassadors; Gogmagoggs, Lyric Hammersmith; Shadow of a Gunman, Tricycle; Easter, Riverside Studios (Oxford Stage Company); Out of Our Heads, ATC.

Regional Theatre includes:

The Flint Street Nativity, Hull Truck; The Daughter-in-Law, New Vic Theatre Stoke; Behzti, Birmingham Rep; Tall Phoenix, Belgrade Theatre Coventry; Broken Glass, How The Other Half Loves, The Deep Blue Sea, Get Ken Barlow, Palace Theatre Watord; A Chorus of Disapproval, The Beggars Opera, Henry IV pt. 1 & 2, Old Vic Theatre, Bristol; Privates on Parade, New Vic Theatre Stoke; Present Laughter, A Streetcar Named Desire, Misery; Mercury Theatre Colcester; Forty Years On, West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Mark has also lit plays in many, many other regional theatres including: Derby Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse, York Theatre Royal, Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, Greenwich Theatre, Churchill Theatre Bromley, Queens Theatre Hornchurch, Everyman and Playhouse Theatres Liverpool, Nuffield Southampton, Northcott Exeter, Salisbury Playhouse.

Future Plans include:

Hansel and Gretel, Scottish Opera; Democracy, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield; Circus Tricks, Tête à Tête