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), A Chorus of Disapproval (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich), Waters Edge (Arcola Theatre) Peter Pan (First Family/Manchester Opera House), Yours Abundantly (Oval House Theatre, London), Lucky Stiff (Greenwich Theatre), Intoto Dance Company 2006 - 2009 (Royal Opera House/Peacock Theatre/Tour), Dance Overtures (Wimbledon Theatre), Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Mother Goose (Gaiety, Dublin), Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk (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), Here we are again (Players Theatre), Paul Bunyan (Anglia Opera), Macbeth (Creation Theatre Company), Tommy (YAC), 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 (World Premier), Double Double, I'll be back before midnight, The Old Ladies, Time and Time again, (Jill Freud & Company)
Production Electrician and Associate Lighting Designer work includes: Havanna Rakatan (Australia Tour) 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, Production Manager for Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company and runs Illuminate Design Ltd, a company specialising in lighting training and production management work in the UK.
(03/09)