Hugh Vanstone

Lighting

HUGH VANSTONE has designed the lighting for more than 150 productions and worked for most of the national companies and extensively on Broadway. He has been nominated numerous times and awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Designer: in 2004 for Pacific Overtures (Donmar); in 2000 for The Graduate (West End) and The Cherry Orchard (National Theatre) and in 1998 for The Unexpected Man(RSC) and The Blue Room (Donmar).

His recent work includes: La Bete (Comedy Theatre, Broadway); The Late Middle Classes (Donmar); The Real Thing (Old Vic); Arabian Nights (RSC); A Steady Rain(Broadway); A Doll’s House (Donmar); Mary Stuart (Donmar, Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway); God Of Carnage (Gielgud and Broadway, UK tour); Tanz der Vampire(Vienna /Oberhausen); Shrek The Musical (Broadway, US tour) and Small Change(Donmar).

Other theatre includes: Grand Hotel, Twelfth Night, Uncle Vanya, Orpheus Descending,Juno & The Paycock, The Front Page, Insignificance (Donmar); The Three Musketeers(Boston, USA); The Pain And The Itch (Royal Court); Epitaph For George Dillon(Comedy); Present Laughter, Rafta, Rafta…, Market Boy (National Theatre); Boeing, Boeing (London, UK tour and Broadway) and Spamalot (Broadway, US tour, London, Australia and Las Vegas).

Opera: The Carmelites (ENO); Carmen (Opera North) and The Bartered Bride(Glyndebourne).

Future projects include: Matilda (RSC).