TONY SIMPSON - Lighting Designer
www.tonysimpson.com

West End Design includes:

Bat Boy - The Musical (The Shaftesbury & West Yorkshire Playhouse) Ying Tong – A Walk with the Goons (The Ambassadors & West Yorkshire Playhouse) Members Only (Trafalgar Studios) Missing Persons: Four Tragedies and Roy Keane (Trafalgar Studios & Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh) Berkoff’s Women (The Ambassadors) Cooking with Elvis (The Whitehall) Round The Horne …Revisited and Round The Horne …Revisited 2 (The Venue & UK Tours) Under the Doctor (The Comedy).

Other Design Includes:

Steptoe & Son (Plymouth & UK Tour); Blue Orange (Watford Palace); The Flu Season, Habitats (The Gate); The Man Who (Orange Tree Theatre); Falstaff, Hansell and Gretel (The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London); Tuesday’s Child (Hampstead Theatre Studio); The Way of The World (Wiltons Music Hall); Master Harold…and the Boys, Burn, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Southwark Playhouse); On The Waterfront (Wimbledon Studio); Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Opera House Jersey & Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man); Bleach/Hostage (Theatre 503); Girls Night (National No. 1 Tour); Miss Julie, Blue Sky State, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Betrayal, Brass Balls, Our Country’s Good, Death of a Salesman (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Souterrain (Wildworks in Colchester); Romeo and Juliet (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton/Arundel Festival); The Weir, Waiting for Godot, Arcadia (Royal Theatre Northampton); The Emperor and the Nightingale (The Watermill, Newbury); Snow Shoes (The Drum, Plymouth / UK Tour); La Traviata (Duchy Opera)

Tony has also designed for orchestral concerts, conferences, pantomimes, & contemporary dance. He has also worked extensively as an Associate Designer, productions including the National Theatre’s Life x 3 and An Inspector Calls (both West End & various UK Tours); Amadeus (West End, UK Tours, New York & Los Angeles); The Woman in Black (UK Tours); The Weir (Royal Court UK Tours, Sicily & Australia); The Shape of Things (West End); Patsy Cline – The Musical (West End and UK Tours). Tony has also toured with the RSC, Welsh National Opera and The Royal Opera House.

Tony is Chairman of the Equity Theatre Designers Committee, a professional member of the Association of Lighting Designers and a visiting Lighting Design lecturer at The Central School of Speech and Drama and Birkbeck, University of London. He is also a review committee member for the National Council for Drama Training.