David Plater
David’s awards and nominations include Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk nominee for Bring Up The Bodies (Broadway and London); Knight of Illumination Award winner for Best Dance Lighting for The Suit (Cathy Marston for Ballet Black, Barbican 2018) Knight of Illumination Award nominee for Richard II (2012 Donmar) and for This Is My Family (2013 Sheffield Lyceum) and was an Off West End Winner for Deathwatch (Coronet Notting Hill 2017). David trained at RADA and was previously Head of Lighting at the Donmar Warehouse.
David’s theatre credits include; My Cousin Rachel (Bath Theatre Royal), This Is My Family (Chichester Minerva), The Divide (King’s Theatre Edinburgh and Old Vic), The Outsider, Out of Blixen, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Death Watch, The Cocktail Party (Print Room), Approaching Empty (Kiln Theatre), Misalliance (Orange Tree Theatre), Room, Sinbad the Sailor, Robin Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Murder Ballad (Arts Theatre), Brass, (Hackney Empire), The Mentalists (Wyndham’s Theatre), The Effect, Macbeth, This Is My Family (Sheffield Theatres), Outside Mullingar (Theatre Royal Bath), Bring Up The Bodies (Royal Shakespeare Company/Stratford, London and New York), Billy Liar (Royal Exchange Manchester), The Dishwashers (Birmingham Rep), Mrs Lowry and Son (Trafalgar Studios), Beautiful Thing (Arts Theatre and UK tour), Quiz Show (Traverse), The Silence of the Sea (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), Richard III, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe at the Apollo Theatre), The Chair Plays (Lyric Hammersmith), Richard II (Donmar Warehouse) and Arab Israeli Cookbook,(Tricycle Theatre). David’s designs for opera and dance include Un Ballo in Maschera, Romeo et Juliette, Porgy and Bess, Tosca, Die Walkure, La fanciulla del West and Oliver! (Grange Park Opera); over 47 commissions for Ballet Black (Linbury Theatre, Barbican, Sadler’s Wells), Terra (Print Room) and The Mother with Natalia Osipova (by Arthur Pita at the Queen Elizabeth Hall). He has lit dance all over the UK, in the Netherlands, Germany, Bermuda and Italy.
David’s theatre credits include; My Cousin Rachel (Bath Theatre Royal), This Is My Family (Chichester Minerva), The Divide (King’s Theatre Edinburgh and Old Vic), The Outsider, Out of Blixen, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Death Watch, The Cocktail Party (Print Room), Approaching Empty (Kiln Theatre), Misalliance (Orange Tree Theatre), Room, Sinbad the Sailor, Robin Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Murder Ballad (Arts Theatre), Brass, (Hackney Empire), The Mentalists (Wyndham’s Theatre), The Effect, Macbeth, This Is My Family (Sheffield Theatres), Outside Mullingar (Theatre Royal Bath), Bring Up The Bodies (Royal Shakespeare Company/Stratford, London and New York), Billy Liar (Royal Exchange Manchester), The Dishwashers (Birmingham Rep), Mrs Lowry and Son (Trafalgar Studios), Beautiful Thing (Arts Theatre and UK tour), Quiz Show (Traverse), The Silence of the Sea (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), Richard III, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe at the Apollo Theatre), The Chair Plays (Lyric Hammersmith), Richard II (Donmar Warehouse) and Arab Israeli Cookbook,(Tricycle Theatre). David’s designs for opera and dance include Un Ballo in Maschera, Romeo et Juliette, Porgy and Bess, Tosca, Die Walkure, La fanciulla del West and Oliver! (Grange Park Opera); over 47 commissions for Ballet Black (Linbury Theatre, Barbican, Sadler’s Wells), Terra (Print Room) and The Mother with Natalia Osipova (by Arthur Pita at the Queen Elizabeth Hall). He has lit dance all over the UK, in the Netherlands, Germany, Bermuda and Italy.
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15David Plater
David’s awards and nominations include Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk nominee for Bring Up The Bodies (Broadway and London); Knight of Illumination Award winner for Best Dance Lighting for The Suit (Cathy Marston for Ballet Black, Barbican 2018) Knight of Illumination Award nominee for Richard II (2012 Donmar) and for This Is My Family (2013 Sheffield Lyceum) and was an Off West End Winner for Deathwatch (Coronet Notting Hill 2017). David trained at RADA and was previously Head of Lighting at the Donmar Warehouse.
David’s theatre credits include; My Cousin Rachel (Bath Theatre Royal), This Is My Family (Chichester Minerva), The Divide (King’s Theatre Edinburgh and Old Vic), The Outsider, Out of Blixen, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Death Watch, The Cocktail Party (Print Room), Approaching Empty (Kiln Theatre), Misalliance (Orange Tree Theatre), Room, Sinbad the Sailor, Robin Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Murder Ballad (Arts Theatre), Brass, (Hackney Empire), The Mentalists (Wyndham’s Theatre), The Effect, Macbeth, This Is My Family (Sheffield Theatres), Outside Mullingar (Theatre Royal Bath), Bring Up The Bodies (Royal Shakespeare Company/Stratford, London and New York), Billy Liar (Royal Exchange Manchester), The Dishwashers (Birmingham Rep), Mrs Lowry and Son (Trafalgar Studios), Beautiful Thing (Arts Theatre and UK tour), Quiz Show (Traverse), The Silence of the Sea (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), Richard III, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe at the Apollo Theatre), The Chair Plays (Lyric Hammersmith), Richard II (Donmar Warehouse) and Arab Israeli Cookbook,(Tricycle Theatre). David’s designs for opera and dance include Un Ballo in Maschera, Romeo et Juliette, Porgy and Bess, Tosca, Die Walkure, La fanciulla del West and Oliver! (Grange Park Opera); over 47 commissions for Ballet Black (Linbury Theatre, Barbican, Sadler’s Wells), Terra (Print Room) and The Mother with Natalia Osipova (by Arthur Pita at the Queen Elizabeth Hall). He has lit dance all over the UK, in the Netherlands, Germany, Bermuda and Italy.
David’s theatre credits include; My Cousin Rachel (Bath Theatre Royal), This Is My Family (Chichester Minerva), The Divide (King’s Theatre Edinburgh and Old Vic), The Outsider, Out of Blixen, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Death Watch, The Cocktail Party (Print Room), Approaching Empty (Kiln Theatre), Misalliance (Orange Tree Theatre), Room, Sinbad the Sailor, Robin Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Murder Ballad (Arts Theatre), Brass, (Hackney Empire), The Mentalists (Wyndham’s Theatre), The Effect, Macbeth, This Is My Family (Sheffield Theatres), Outside Mullingar (Theatre Royal Bath), Bring Up The Bodies (Royal Shakespeare Company/Stratford, London and New York), Billy Liar (Royal Exchange Manchester), The Dishwashers (Birmingham Rep), Mrs Lowry and Son (Trafalgar Studios), Beautiful Thing (Arts Theatre and UK tour), Quiz Show (Traverse), The Silence of the Sea (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), Richard III, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe at the Apollo Theatre), The Chair Plays (Lyric Hammersmith), Richard II (Donmar Warehouse) and Arab Israeli Cookbook,(Tricycle Theatre). David’s designs for opera and dance include Un Ballo in Maschera, Romeo et Juliette, Porgy and Bess, Tosca, Die Walkure, La fanciulla del West and Oliver! (Grange Park Opera); over 47 commissions for Ballet Black (Linbury Theatre, Barbican, Sadler’s Wells), Terra (Print Room) and The Mother with Natalia Osipova (by Arthur Pita at the Queen Elizabeth Hall). He has lit dance all over the UK, in the Netherlands, Germany, Bermuda and Italy.