Featured Works
Wilko: Love and Death and Rock n Roll, Southwark Playhouse 2025. Photo by Nick Haeffner. 
Twopence To Cross The Mersey, UK Tour 2022. 
Pepper and Honey, Notnow Collective 2019-20 
LOOP, Theatre In Black 2019 
Into The Woods, Curve Young Company 2019 
STAND staged reading 2022 
Zigger Zagger, Curve Young Company 2019
My Work
Lighting Design
James has worked across the UK as a lighting designer, with credits ranging from rural touring and nontraditional spaces (Pepper & Honey, Notnow Collective, 2019-25; LOOP, Theatre In Black, 2019), to youth company productions at Curve Theatre (Into The Woods and Zigger Zagger, 2019), to midscale theatre on tour (Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Pulse Records Ltd, 2022) and in London (Wilko: Love and Death and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Canvey Rock Productions, 2025). For more credits and images of James’ design work, consider browsing his portfolio.
He also has creative experience on larger scale shows, as assistant lighting designer for Ben Cracknell (Grease The Musical, UK Tour and West End run 2021/22), and as associate lighting designer for Zoe Spurr (Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World, UK Tour 2023/24), and for Ian Scott (Only Fools And Horses, UK & Ireland Tour 2024/25). For a full list of credits, click here.
Lighting Programming
In addition to design work, James is also a skilled Eos programmer, having received extensive training at Curve Theatre culminating in programming My Beautiful Launderette (Curve Theatre and tour, for lighting designer Ben Cracknell, 2019), and going on to program further UK tours including Mugabe, My Dad, and Me (LD Alex Stafford, English Touring Theatre 2022) and Only Fools And Horses: The Musical (LD Ian Scott, Phil McIntyre Live Ltd 2024-25).
James also has experience integrating control of video designs from Eos, including via Qlab and Disguise media servers, and with integrated show control setups more generally.
About Me
James works all over the UK as a lighting designer, programmer, and relighter, in theatres and in nontraditional performance spaces alike.
Having developed a love for theatre while at university studying an unrelated degree in archaeology and anthropology, James has so far enjoyed a career that has taken him from fringe theatre to the West End, and everywhere in between.
As a designer, James enjoys working on a wide range of projects, but is particularly interested in new writing and adaptations with a strong social motive. He is fascinated by the ability of light to tell stories and support narratives and seeks to investigate that relationship in all of his projects.
Current Projects
LX1 for Dear England UK Tour 2025/6. Lighting design by Jon Clarke. Produced by National Theatre Productions and JAS Theatrical.
LX1 for Peter Pan, Southampton Mayflower pantomime 2025/26. Produced by Crossroads Pantomimes.
Upcoming:
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