Ben Pacey - Lighting Designer
Ben specialises in dance and theatre lighting design, including work with devising companies, and working in unusual/site-specific spaces. His work has been seen in the UK, Europe, USA, India and China.
Theatre
His recent lighting design for theatre includes Iris Brunette for Melanie Wilson (2008); Fight Face at Lyric Hammersmith (2008); Infinite Lives for The Company (2008); The Internationalist for The Gate (2008); It Is Like It Ought To Be – A Pastoral for Uninvited Guests (2006); Frozen, The Birthday Party and After Miss Julie in rep at Theatre by the Lake (2006); Your Hand In Mine for Wishbone (Lyric Hammersmith Studio 2007); national tours of Bella and the Beautiful Knight for Silver Tongue Theatre (2005); and This Lime Tree Bower for The Young Vic (Theatre 503, 2005).
Dance
Recent lighting design for dance includes Rise for Tom Dale; Oblivion for Kyoung-shin Kim (Place Prize semi-finalist 2008); Handmade/Manmade, She Lies With Me and Stuffed for Wired Aerial Theatre (Royal Opera House and tours); Play Ball (Traverse Theatre and tour, 2008) and Quick! - the overall winner of the Place Prize 2006 - for Nina Rajarani; and Noor for Anurekha Ghosh.
Devised Performance
Recent devised work includes artistic collaboration/lighting design on Mixtape for Unlimited Theatre; A Thousand Shards of Glass and Treasured—A Secret Journey directed by Jane Packman (Warwick Arts Centre, 2008); I Am Waiting For The Opportunity To Save Someone's Life for The Other Way Works (2006). As a member of Mapping4D he has collaborated on, and designed light for Slender (BAC, 2006) and Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award winning production The Pink Bits (Riverside Studios, 2004). Ben has also recently collaborated on the development of A Small Town Anywhere at the National Theatre Studio and BAC, for Coney.
Art Events
Ben has recently collaborated with artist Lali Chetwynd on Svoboda Project (Eastside Projects, 2008); and her performance events The Fall of Man – A Puppet Extravaganza (Tate Britain, 2006) and Delirious (Serpentine Pavilion, 2006).
V&A Exhibition
Ben's lighting design for I Am Waiting For The Opportunity To Save Someone's Life was part of the "Collaborators: UK Design for Performance 2003-2007" Exhibition at the V&A in London. The design was exhibited as a series of light-boxes.
(02/09)