RICHARD G JONES
Lighting Designer

Richard has just returned from New York having just designed the lighting for John Doyle's actor musician Sweeney Todd at the Eugene O,Neill Theatre. Recent award winning productions with have included the West End and UK national tour of Sweeney Todd, the West End and Watermill Theatre production of the Gondoliers (TMA Award Winner Best Musical 2001), The Watermill Theatre production of Fiddler on the Roof (TMA Award Winner Best Musical 2002). Other recent lighting designs include a UK National tour of Midnight for Watershed Productions, the UK premiere of Sideshow for the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford, the UK premiere of Steptoe and Son for the York Theatre Royal and Mack and Mabel for The Watermill Theatre.

National tours have included Beautiful Thing, Wuthering Heights, Rasputin, Candide & Sweeney Todd. West End work includes The Gondoliers , When Pigs Fly and Female Parts and Sweeney Todd. Repertory theatre work includes Behind the Scenes at the Museum, A Taste of Honey, Piaf, Abandonment, Private Lives and Amadeus for York Theatre Royal; Carmen, Fiddler on the Roof, Irma la Douce, and Cabaret for the Watermill Theatre Newbury; The Man Who, Satin 'N' Steel and Chicken Soup with Barley for Nottingham Playhouse; and The Firebird, The Arabian Nights, The Snow Queen and The Emperor and the Nightingale for the mac.

He has also designed for The Royal Northern College of Music , Manchester The Norwich Playhouse; The Duchy Ballet, Cornwall; Covent Garden Linbury Studio, London; Culture and Congress Centre Lucerne, Switzerland;
The Swan Theatre , Worcester; Library Theatre , Manchester; Everyman Theatres , Liverpool and
Cheltenham; Arden Theatre ; Manchester, Bolton Octagon Theatre ; Birmingham REP ;
Oxford Playhouse and The Theatre on the Lake, Keswick.

His work can be seen at www.richardgjones.co.uk

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