Ben Payne - Lighting Designer
Ben trained with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, joining as one of its youngest ever technical members.
Design Credits Include:
Cymbeline (Dir Sir Trevor Nunn), Depot, King David, Grapes of Wrath, The Rivals (Mercury Theatre, Colchester) Jack and the Beanstalk, Noises Off, Aladdin, Chorus of Disapproval (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich), Heldenplatz, Waters Edge (Arcola Theatre) Peter Pan, Snow White (First Family Entertainment), Wizard of Oz (New World Productions/National Tour) Yours Abundantly (Oval House Theatre, London), Rent (Pleasance Theatre, Islington) Lucky Stiff (Greenwich Theatre), London Studio Centre’s Intoto Dance and Jazz Company 2006 - 2010 (Royal Opera House/Peacock Theatre/National Tours), Dance Overtures 2006-2010 (Wimbledon & Peacock Theatre), Aladdin, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Mother Goose (Gaiety, Dublin), Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk, 12th Night(Stafford Gatehouse), Waiting for Godot, A Dolls House (Horseshoe Theatre Company), Ask for the Moon (Mountview Theatre School), Medea, The Tempest, The Duchess of Malfi, Aladdin, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Oedipus the King, Jack and the Beanstalk (Cambridge Arts Theatre), The Lady Vanishes (Triode Productions) Here we are again (Players Theatre), Paul Bunyan (Anglia Opera), Macbeth (Creation Theatre Company), Tommy (YAC), Green for Danger, Crooked Wood, Gaslight, Murder Mistaken, The Lady Vanishes, Private Lives, Dick Barton, The Browning Version, Outside Edge, Dames at Sea, Funny Money, Wait until Dark, Don't Look now, Double Double, I'll be back before midnight, The Old Ladies, Time and Time again, (Jill Freud & Company)
Assistant and Associate Lighting Designer work includes:
Havanna Rakatan (Australia Tour/UK West End) Othello (Trafalgar Studios) Treasure Island (Haymarket, West End), Margurite (Haymarket, West End), The Hobbit (National Tour), Hay Fever, The Contractor (Oxford Stage Company/National Tours), Mack and Mabel (National Tour/ Criterion, West End) My Fair Lady (Esplanade, Singapore), Tracy Beaker (Nottingham Playhouse/National Tour), Vincent in Brixton, Angel House (New Wolsey, Ipswich/National Tour), Henri Oguike Dance Company (National Tour)
Ben is also Lighting Consultant to the London International Festival of Theatre and runs Illuminate Design Ltd, a company specialising in lighting training and production work in the Cambridge area.
(02/11)