Freelance lighting designer
Joined June 2020
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Wow. This is absolutely superb from @Ed_Miliband
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Episode 4. Bruno interviews James about his career and his experience lighting opera.
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Theatre would hugely benefit (in my opinion) if…
Every producer had to perform publicly
Every designer/actor had to budget a show
Every Director did a fit up
Every actor had to programme a lighting desk or edit Q-lab
Every Artistic Director did a front of house shift…
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This time we talk to Michael Dennis about is career as a company stage manager and his extensive experience of touring theatre in the UK.
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Have felt glum abt theatre and it’s rush to put the train back on the tracks & puff away merrily as if the last 2 yrs never happened. #DepartureLounge22 @IngoodcoEM @DerbyTheatre have renewed my faith. So much great work going on quietly, consistently, making a real difference
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Season 2 kicks off with an excellent chat with Lauren Stroud about her experience working as a swing in London’s west end.
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Bruno and James take a moment to say hello and thank you…Listen at anchor.fm/makingtheatrepodca…
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This time we talk to Bernie Davis, the veteran television lighting director, about a subject increasingly apposite to our own work; adapting stage lighting for television and online broadcast.
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Prasanna Puwanarajah is an actor, director and writer, working across theatre, film and television. He also happens to be a fully trained medical doctor..who is also writing a graphic novel. Here is his unique perspective on Making Theatre…
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In Episode 18 we discuss all things props with Lizzie Frankl, props supervisor and director of Propworks
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In episode 17, we talk to award winning costume supervisor and deputy head of wardrobe at English National Opera, Sarah Bowern.
In Episode 16, Tamsin Greig joins us for a fascinating conversation about making theatre from the actor’s perspective.
More light on life behind the scenes...
Episode 13 is live. Jo Hornsby and Anna Cole talk candidly about life in the Planning Office of the @NationalTheatre.
Wise and insightful...
Episode 12 features a fascinating and insightful conversation with @lyngardner. She talks to us about her life as a journalist and critic, the crisis facing theatre, and why we shouldn’t worry if she stops taking notes halfway through the first act...
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Arts freelancers – have you been able to work at all during the coronavirus shutdown? Do you need more support?
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Lovely chat with @makingtheatrefm have a listen & decide whether I am unskilled & not viable. If I am I’ll give up now & run a tea shop in Yorkshire anchor.fm/makingtheatrepodca…
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Episode 10, with Kate Waters, is live! Please subscribe and leave a review.
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Episode 5 is now live. An inspiring conversation with Tamykha Patterson, assistant lighting designer and lighting programmer. Link in bio or search for Making Theatre Podcast in Apple or Google Podcasts. Thank… instagram.com/p/CCo_j0Onrgi/…
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Latest edition of the Making Theate podcast features Vicki Mortimer, talking about design process, designer’s studios, the importance of costume and joy of a double ended pencil...amongst a lot of other things. instagram.com/p/CCQ0ZIuneIQ/…