Was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He then worked at Sheffield University Theatre and Contact Theatre, Manchester. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1978, designing many productions for The Other Place, and The Pit Theatre at The Barbican. His most recent of the almost fifty productions he has lit for the RSC include the West End transfer of
Canterbury Tales, and
Breakfast with Mugabe, Tynan and the 2005
Jacobethan Season. In addition to the RSC, he has worked in the West End and on Broadway (
Not about Heroes, Macbeth, The Vanek Plays, Sweeney Todd, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Trial and Medea), and in Coventry, Clwyd and Bristol. His opera designs include:
Eugene Onegin, The Mikado and
Rinaldo (Grange Park Opera) and
The Mikado (D'Oyly Carte at the Savoy Theatre). He was nominated in the 1992 Olivier Awards for
Edward II, and again in 1994 for
Tamburlaine the Great and Medea.
