Lighting Design Portfolio

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Wilko: Love and Death and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Canvey Rock Productions with Cahoots Theatre Company, 2025

Director: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart

Set and Costume Designer: Nicolai Hart-Hansen

Lighting Designer: James Stokes

Sound Designer: Simon Slater

Produced by Canvey Rock Productions and Denise Silvey for Cahoots Theatre Company

Photography by Nick Haeffner

Review: “The ethereal, striking moments of lighting from James Stokes momentarily shatter this, creating an otherworldly sense that helps greatly in reinforcing the show’s themes of accepting what cannot be changed, and living life to the fullest.” – Sam Waite

Review: “Coupled with James Stokes’ beautiful lighting design, some of Johnson’s most moving moments are strikingly poignant, and evoke the sense of a musician coming to the end of his final gig.” – Dan English

STAND Script Showcase, Ailia Ltd

Writer and director: AJ Kàsálí

Set Designer: AJ Kàsálí

Lighting Designer: James Stokes

Sound Designer: Julian Starr

Twopence To Cross The Mersey, Pulse Records Ltd. 2022

Director: Gareth Tudor-Price

Set Design: Richard Foxton

Lighting Design: Ian Scott and James Stokes

Sound Design: Kate Harvey

Produced by Rob Fennah for Pulse Records Ltd and Bill Elms for Bill Elms Associates

Photography by Anthony Robling

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LOOP, Theatre In Black 2019

Director: Kathryn King

Lighting Design: James Stokes

Produced by Ryan Leder for Theatre In Black and Courtenay Johnson for Carbon Theatre

Photography: Matt Cawrey

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Pepper & Honey, Notnow Collective 2019-25

Director: Tilly Branson

Set and Costume Designer: Eleanor Field

Lighting Designer: James Stokes

Sound Designer: Adam McCready

Projection Designer: David Hately

Produced by Tina Hoffman and Corinne Salisbury for Notnow Collective

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Into The Woods, Curve Young Company 2019

Director: Siobhan Cannon-Brownlie

Set Designer: Eleanor Field

Costume Designer: Lucy Duncan

A Curve Young Company Production

Photography: Matt Cawrey

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Zigger Zagger, Curve Young Company 2019

Director: Mandeep Glover

Set Designer: Eleanor Field

Lighting Designer: James Stokes

Costume Designer: Edd Lindley

A Curve Young Company Production

Photography: Matt Cawrey

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America’s Number One Detective Agency, Drayton Arms Theatre 2017

Director: Anna Marshall

Set and Costume Designer: Natalie Jackson

Lighting Designer: James Stokes

Produced by Fatale Femme Theatre Company

Cinderella, Hounslow Arts Centre 2016

Director: Jonathan Ashby

Lighting Designer: James Stokes

A Hounslow Arts Centre Production

Photography: Alex Harvey-Brown

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Armchair Theatre Company 2016

Director: Mischa Andreski

Set Designer: Flora Holmes

Lighting Designer: James Stokes

Photography: Hester Vickery Styles

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