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Ryan is a lighting designer, working in theatre, dance, opera, fashion and concerts. Ryan enjoys working in close collaboration with the creative team, introducing and containing positive working relationships.

Ryan is a member of the Association for Lighting Production and Design and trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, studying theatre lighting design. 

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Credits

Awards

2025 Offies Awards - Now, I See Lighting Design WINNER

2024 Black British Theatre Awards (Recognition Group) Body of Work - Best Lighting Design WINNER

Credits

Current/Future

Director

Sean Holmes

Nancy Medina

Francesca Moody

Titas Halder

Daniel Evans

Venue

Regents Park Open Air Theatre

Maria Theatre, Young Vic

Edinburgh Fringe & Young Vic

Sheffield Crucible

Royal Shakespeare Theatre, RSC

Date

May 2026

June 2026

Summer/Fall 2026

August 2026

September 2026

Previous

2026

2025

 

 

 

2024

2023

 

 

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

Show

Henry V

The Boy at the Back of the Class

All is But Fantasy

When We Are Married

Macbeth

Hamlet

The Beautiful Future Is Coming

Shedinburgh (Venue)

The Constant Wife

The Beautiful Future Is Coming

The Da Vinci Code

Pimpinone

In the Mouth of the Wolf

The Lion Inside

Handbagged

 

Twelfth Night

A Marvellous Party​

The Red Shoes

Pericles

The Kings Speech

The History Boys

Pericles

Now, I See

The Lion Inside

The Boy at the Back of the Class

Backstairs Billy

Quiz

Never Have I Ever

Carmen

Saving Face

Into The Woods

War and Culture [Co-Design]

Black Superhero

Wickies {Associate LD}

Local Hero [Co-Design]

Katzenmusik

Pomona

Lizard Boy

West End Live 2022 CML

Mission

Mediocre White Male

Christie Done It

Rabbit Hole

I Know I Know I Know

Wild Onion

About 500

 

Merchant of Venice

The Lemon Table [Associate LD]

Les Misérables [Assistant LD]

Our Planet

Ballad of Corona V - The Remix

 

The Ballad of Corona V

Ghost House

Urinetown

Dr Faustess

Mamma Mia

Reflections

DarkNet [Co-Design}

The Bexliest Day of Our Lives

Attempts on Her Life

Royal Ballet School Graduation

Absolutely Murder

Anatomy of a Suicide

Hairspray the Musical

Richard II

Nutcracker

Chronixx Concert

Magical

Salt Life

20 Years Of Dance

 

Adventure In Pantoland

Hair & Beauty Fashion Show

Director

Tamara Harvey

Monique Touko

Whitney White

 

Tim Sheader

Daniel Raggett

Justin Audibert

Nancy Medina

Francesca Moody

Tamara Harvey

Nancy Medina

Chelsea Walker

Sophie Gilpin

Philip Wilson

Sarah Punshon

Alex Thorpe

 

Meghan Doyle

Daniel Evans

Kimberley Rampersad

Tamara Harvey

Emma Butler

Seán Linnen

Tamara Harvey

Lanre Malaolu

Sarah Punshon

Monique Touko

Michael Grandage

Daniel Evans & Seán Linnen

Emma Butler

Anna Morriseey

Si Rawlinson

Cressida Carre

Jess Edwards

Daniel Evans

Shilpa T-Hyland

Daniel Evans

Mairi Hayes

Jack McMahon

Brandon Ivie

Cameron Macintosh Limited

Maggie Norris

Joe Von Malachowski & Will Close

Eureka Toki

Lawrence Carmichael

Harry Tennison

Daisy Minto & Rachel Coleman

Simona Hughes

 

Bill Alexander

Michael Grandage & Titas Halder

Laurence Connor & James Powell

Lizz Pimentel

Maggie Norris

Maggie Norris

Andrew Twyman

Chelsea Walker

Kolja Schallenberg

Jamie Wilkin

Steve Huntsman

Samantha Robinson

Ben Buratta

Samantha Robinson

Pippa Cobbing

Debbie Correia 

Irina Brown

Rachel Burton

 

Jon Pashley

Lizz Pimentel

Chronixx

Lizz Pimentel

Jeanne Legere 

Lizz Pimentel

Laura Bardgett 

Amir X

Venue

Royal Shakespeare Theatre, RSC

Rose Theatre & National Tour

The Other Place, RSC

Donmar Warehouse

The Other Place, RSC

Minerva Theatre, Chichester

Traverse Theatre

Shedinburgh - Edinburgh Fringe

Swan Theatre, RSC

Bristol Old Vic

Salisbury Playhouse & Mercury

Royal Ballet and Opera

Barn Theatre

Southbank Centre

Queens Theatre & National Tour

 

National Youth Theatre

Prince of Wales

Swan Theatre, RSC

Courtyard - Chicago Shakespeare

Watermill

Theatre Royal Bath & National Tour

Swan Theatre, RSC

Stratford East

Rose, Unicorn, International Tour

Rose Theatre & National Tour

Duke of York's

Chichester Festival & National Tour

Minerva Theatre, Chichester

Waterperry Opera

Curve Leicester & The Place

Playground

New Diorama

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs

Park

Minerva Theatre Chichester

Royal Central School

Royal Central School

Hope Mill & Edinburgh Fringe

Trafalgar Square

The Big House

Park 90

Cockpit

Union

Southwark Playhouse

Norwich Theatre Royal & UK Tour

Union

 

Playground

Salisbury Playhouse & National Tour

Sondheim Theatre

Earl Cameron

The Big House

The Big House

The Pit at the Vaults

Royal Central School

Cockpit

 

Earl Cameron

Mid Ocean Amphitheatre

Union

The Exchange Erith

Drayton Arms

Linden Studio 

Daylesford 

Royal Central School

ST Marylebone C E School

Royal Central School

Ruth Seaton James 

Bermuda National Stadium

Earl Cameron 

Earl Cameron 

Earl Cameron 

Earl Cameron 

Earl Cameron 

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