JON CLARK LIGHT DESIGN

BIOGRAPHY

Jon is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning lighting designer, based in the UK.

Theatre
NATIONAL THEATRE: The Effect, Dear England, The Movie and The Cue, The Lehman Trilogy (also Park Avenue Armory, New York), Manor, I’m Not Running, Absolute Hell, Amadeus, As You Like It, The Beaux Stratagem, Hamlet, Othello, The Effect (2012), Collaborators, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Greenland, Pains of Youth, Our Class, Damned by Despair, Women of Troy, The Cat in the Hat, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel.

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (RSC): Hamlet, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale, King Lear, The Homecoming and Silence.

BROADWAY: A Doll’s House (Hudson), The Shark Is Broken (Golden), The Lehman Trilogy (Tony Award for Best Lighting of a Play; Nederlander), The Inheritance (Tony nomination; Barrymore), Betrayal (Jacobs), King Charles III (Music Box Theater).

WEST END PLAYS: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix), Dear England (Prince Edward), The Motive and The Cue (Noel Coward), The Lehman Trilogy (Piccadilly & Gillian Lynne Theatres); The Inheritance (Noel Coward, Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design); Cyrano De Bergerac (Harold Pinter Theatre, Playhouse Theatre); The Shark Is Broken (Ambassadors, also Toronto); Betrayal , Pinter at the Pinter Season (Harold Pinter), The Jungle (Playhouse), Frozen7, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Apollo), Doctor Faustus (Duke of York's); King Charles III (Wyndham's, Olivier Award nomination); Apologia, The Maids, The Ruling Class, The Pride (Trafalgar); Three Days of Rain (Apollo, Olivier Award nomination and Knight of Illumination Award); The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick), The Lover and The Collection, Dickens Unplugged (Harold Pinter); Pinter's People (Haymarket).

WEST END MUSICALS: Aspects of Love (Lyric); The Commitments (Palace and UK Tour); Made In Dagenham (Adelphi); I Can’t Sing! (London Palladium)

BRIDGE THEATRE: The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Bach & Sons, A Christmas Carol, Beat The Devil, Talking Heads, A German Life, Alys Always.

YOUNG VIC:  Mandela, Tree, The Inheritance, The Jungle, Galileo, Once In A Lifetime, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Season In The Congo, The Return of Ulysees, Street Scene, Been So Long, The Jewish Wife, How Much Is Your Iron?

OLD VIC: Eureka Day, The Lorax.

ALMEIDA THEATRE: Richard III, King Charles III, American Psycho, King Lear, The House of Bernarda Alba.

DONMAR WAREHOUSE: Limehouse, Trelawny Of The Wells, Moonlight, Polar Bears.

ROYAL COURT: Ten Billion, Red Bud, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Pride, Gone Too Far!

MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL: Tree, Fatherland.

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM): Cyrano de Bergerac.

ST ANN’S WAREHOUSE, NEW YORK: A Streetcar Named Desire; The Jungle (Obie Award Winner - Cast & Creative Team).

OTHER THEATRE: Dr Seuss’s The Lorax (Old Vic, also Toronto, CTC Minnesota, Old Globe, San Diego); Into the Woods (Open Air Theatre); Salome (Headlong); Water, Silence (Filter Theatre); The Birthday Party, Spyski, Water (Lyric Hammersmith, BAM New York, STC, Sydney and UK Tours); Four Quartets (Lincoln Center, New York); Luna Gale, On The Rocks (Hampstead Theatre).

Opera
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA, NEW YORK: Hamlet, The Exterminating Angel
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE: The Exterminating Angel, Lucia Di Lammermoor, L'Etoile, Król Roger, Written on Skin
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA: Orpheus and Eurydice, La Bohème, Wozzeck, Caligula, The Perfect American, The Return of Ulysees, The Turn of the Screw (with Open Air Theatre).
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL: Hamlet
OPERA AUSTRALIA at SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE: King Roger
BAYERISCHE STAATSOPERA: Pique Dame
DUTCH NATIONAL OPERA, AMSTERDAM: La Bohème, Orest, Written On Skin.
ROYAL DANISH OPERA, COPENHAGEN: Macbeth
TEATRO REAL, MADRID: The Perfect American
PALAU DE LES ARTS, VALENCIA: Macbeth
 
OTHER OPERA: Written On Skin (Aix-en-Provence, London, New York, Amsterdam, New York, Toulouse, Paris, Munich, Vienna); Clemency (Scottish Opera/ROH2); L’Elisir d’Amore, The Barber of Seville, Cosi Fan Tutte (Grange Park Opera); Into the Little Hill, Down by the Greenwood Side, Recital I for Cathy, The Lion's Face, Seven Angels (The Opera Group); The Love For Three Oranges (Scottish Opera & RSAMD).

Dance
LORE for Wayne McGregor (La Scala, Milan), The Cellist for Cathy Marston (Royal Ballet, Covent Garden); new works for Requardt & Rosenberg, Will Tuckett, Cathy Marston, Karole Armitage, Bern Ballett, Scottish Dance Theatre and Zoonation.

Jon holds a first class BA (Hons) degree in Theatre Design from Bretton Hall, Leeds University and is an Associate Artist of the RSC.