Danny Vavrečka

Danny is a lighting designer for theatre, opera, and dance. 

THEATRE INCLUDES: work.txt (Soho Theatre & International Tour); The Watsons (Jermyn Street Theatre); Without (Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Compositor E (VAULTS Festival); Zombiegate (Theatre503); Period Dramas (Other Palace); Noson yn y Glwys (Neuadd Dewi Sant); Jigsaw, The Abductions (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Moors (Richard Burton Theatre); Fires Our Shoes Have Made, The Improv Musical! (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Dogfight (Warwick Arts Centre Studio); Timpson: The Musical (King’s Head Theatre); Guys and Dolls (Warwick Arts Centre Theatre); X (Warwick Arts Centre Studio); RENT (Goose Nest Theatre); Blood Wedding (Mumford Theatre).

OPERA INCLUDES: L'Étoile (Opera Zuid); A Visit to Friends (Aldeburgh Festival); Uprising (Glyndebourne); Beauty and the Seven Beasts (Brixton Jamm); Don Giovanni / Il barbiere di Siviglia / Le nozze di Figaro (Sherman Theatre); Hansel and Gretel (Goose Nest Theatre).

DANCE INCLUDES: Slant of the Earth (BalletMAR); Éireann (National Folk Theatre of Ireland & Peacock Theatre); English National Ballet Emerging Dancer 2024 (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); Re-Play (Mulryan Centre for Dance); Empower in Motion (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); Terra Nova (Theatre Royal, Winchester); 1001 (Omnibus Theatre).

CREDITS AS ASSOCIATE/ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER INCLUDE: The Other Place (for James Farncombe, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris); Jesus Christ Superstar (for Lee Curran, London Palladium & Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Great Gatsby (for Cory Pattak, London Coliseum); Starlight Express (for Howard Hudson, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre); Rock 'n' Roll (for Peter Mumford, Hampstead Theatre); Roald Dahl’s The Witches (for Bruno Poet, National Theatre); The Hypochondriac (for Johanna Town, Sheffield Crucible); Dialogues des Carmélites (for Alessandro Carletti, Glyndebourne).

Danny trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, following a degree in Theatre at the University of Warwick. He was selected as the 2023 Design Lumière by the Association for Lighting Production and Design.