Alan Mooney

    Biography Credits

    Biography

    Alan Mooney is a Lighting Designer and theatre-maker from Cork, Ireland.

    He is a graduate of University College Cork. He is a current member of the Irish Society of Stage and Screen Designers (ISSSD) and was a Lumière on the ALD 20:20 Lumière Scheme, where he was mentored by Charles Balfour. 

    A full list of production photographs and biography can be found on his website https://www.alanmooneydesign.com/

    Specialisms

    Theatre:
    • International
    • West End
    • Regional (Main House)
    • Regional (Studio)
    • Small Scale Touring
    • Fringe / Pub Theatre
    • Education Establishment
    • Touring relights
    • Projection / Video Design
    Musical:
    • Regional (Main House)
    • Regional (Studio)
    • Small Scale / Fringe
    • Pantomime
    Opera:
    • Large scale
    Dance:
    • International
    • Large Scale
    • Medium Scale
    • Small Scale
    Concert:
    • Stage Touring
    • Festival
    Corporate:
    • Conferences
    • Exhibition Stands
    • Award Ceremonies

    Previous productions

    Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
    Dancehall Dance The Mac, Belfast
    Luail, Irish National Dance Company     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Stephen Dodd
    Choreographer: Emma Martin
    Set designer: Emma Martin
    Where We Bury The Bones Opera Project Arts Centre, Dublin, then touring
    Dumbworld     		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Alan Mooney
    Director: John Mcllduff
    Set designer: Sabine D'Argent
    Her Father's Voice Opera Draíocht
    Lovano     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Stephen Dodd
    Director: Annabelle Comyn
    Set designer: Joanne Parker
    Octopus Children Theatre Project Arts Centre
    THISISPOPBABY     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Sarah Jane Shiels
    Director: Oonagh Murphy
    Set designer: Jack Phelan
    Dancehall Dance The Mac Belfast, then touring
    Luail, Irish National Dance Company     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Stephen Dodd
    Choreographer: Emma Martin
    Set designer: Emma Martin
    Where We Bury The Bones Opera The Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny, then touring
    Dumbworld     		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Alan Mooney
    Director: John Mcllduff
    Set designer: Sabine Dargent
    Scorched Earth Dance The Black Box Galway
    Attic Projects     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Stephen Dodd
    Choreographer: Luke Murphy
    Set designer: Alyson Cummins
    Scorched Earth Dance The Abbey Theatre, then touring
    Attic Projects     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Stephen Dodd
    Choreographer: Luke Murphy
    Set designer: Alyson Cummins
    Change Dance Firkin Crane
    Croí Glan     		Lighting Designer Set designer: Deirdre Dwyer
    Three Short Comedies by Seán O' Casey Theatre Roscommon Arts Centre, then touring
    Druid     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: James F. Ingalls
    Director: Garry Hynes
    Set designer: Francis O'Connor
    It Was Paradise, Unfortunately Theatre Brian Friel Theatre
    The Collective     		Lighting Designer Director: Aisling Ormonde & Jocelyn Clarke
    Set designer: Myrto Stampoulou
    Bridgerton: After Dark Concert Skibbereen Town Hall
    Glas Quartet     		Lighting Designer
    Bridgerton: After Dark Concert Glór
    Glas Quartet     		Lighting Designer
    Belfast 2024: Shadow Dock Environmental Titanic Dry Dock
    Three's Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Alan Mooney & Conal Clapper
    Director: Anna Leckey
    Pitch'd Dance The Everyman
    Cork Circus Factory     		Lighting Designer
    It Was Paradise, Unfortunately Theatre Goethe-Institut Irland
    The Collective     		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Alan Mooney
    Director: Aisling Ormonde & Jocelyn Clarke
    Set designer: Myrto Stampoulou
    Gatman! Theatre Project Arts Centre, Dublin
    Everyman Theatre     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Stephen Dodd
    Director: Sophie Motley
    Set designer: Stephen Dodd
    Endgame Theatre Town Hall Theatre, Galway
    Druid     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: James F. Ingalls
    Director: Garry Hynes
    Set designer: Francis O'Connor
    Kilter, Matter and Ghosts Theatre Gus Healy Swimming Pool Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Alan Mooney
    Director: Natasha Bourke
    Sentient Dance Everyman Playhouse Liverpool, then touring
    Liz Roche Company     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Sinéad McKenna
    Choreographer: Liz Roche
    Set designer: Katie Davenport
    Gatman! Theatre The Everyman Theatre, Cork
    The Everyman Theatre Cork     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Stephen Dodd
    Director: Sophie Motley
    Set designer: Stephen Dodd
    Dances Like A Bomb Dance The Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire, then touring
    Junk Ensemble     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Stephen Dodd
    Choreographer: Choreography created in collaboration with the cast
    Set designer: Sabine D'Argent
    Echo Theatre Smock Alley Boys School Lighting Designer Director: Dominic O'Brien
    How to be a Dancer in Seventy Two Thousand Easy Lessons Dance Theatre des Abbesses, then touring
    Teac Damsa     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Adam Silverman
    Choreographer: Michael Keegan-Dolan
    Set designer: Hyemi Shin
    You Belong To Me Theatre Smock Alley
    Rough Magic Theatre Company     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Sarah Jane Shiels
    Director: Lynne Parker
    Set designer: Alan Farquharson
    Breathwork Opera Project Arts Centre, Dublin
    Irish National Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: John Mcllduff
    Set designer: Sabine D'Argent
    How to be a Dancer in Seventy-Two Thousand Easy Lessons Dance The Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire
    Teac Damsa     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Adam Silverman
    Choreographer: Michael Keegan-Dolan
    Set designer: Hyemi Shin
    How to be a Dancer in Seventy-Two Thousand Easy Lessons Dance The Everyman Theatre Cork
    Teac Damsa     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Adam Silverman
    Choreographer: Michael Keegan-Dolan
    Set designer: Hyemi Shin
    Dances Like A Bomb Dance Zoo - Southside
    Junk Ensemble     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Stephen Dodd
    Choreographer: Choreography created in collaboration with the cast
    Set designer: Sabine D'Argent
    The Half Moon Theatre Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh
    Emily Foran & Alice Malseed     		Lighting Designer Director: Emily Foran
    Set designer: Pai Rathaya
    The Half Moon Theatre The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
    Emily Foran & Alice Malseed     		Lighting Designer Director: Emily Foran
    Set designer: Pai Rathaya
    How to be a Dancer in Seventy Two Thousand Easy Lessons Dance The Black Box Galway, then touring
    Teac Damsa     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Adam Silverman
    Choreographer: Michael Keegan-Dolan
    Set designer: Hyemi Shin
    ROOMS: Cloakroom Theatre The Shed
    Galway International Arts Festival     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Enda Walsh & Paul Fahy
    Director: Enda Walsh & Paul Fahy
    Set designer: Paul Fahy
    Fun Home Musical The Gate Theatre Dublin
    The Gate Theatre Dublin     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Sinéad McKenna
    Director: Roisin McBrinn
    Set designer: Paul Wills
    Werther Opera An Grianan, then touring
    Irish National Opera     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Sarah Jane Shiels
    Director: Sophie Motley
    Set designer: Sarah Bacon
    The New Electric Ballroom Theatre The Everyman Theatre, Cork
    The Gate Theatre Dublin     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Ciaran Bagnall
    Director: Emma Jordan
    Set designer: Kat Heath
    Something Different Theatre The Mac Belfast
    Tinderbox Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Patrick J. O' Reilly
    Set designer: Saoirse O'Shea
    REGGIE’S GUIDE TO SOCIAL CLIMBING Theatre The Everyman Theatre, Cork
    The Everyman Theatre Cork     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Aedín Cosgrove
    Director: Pat Kiernan
    Set designer: Aedín Cosgrove
    Nobody / Somebody Opera Elmwood Hall
    Northern Irish Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Andrea Ferron
    Dream Factory Theatre Everyman Cork
    Lords of Strut     		Production Electrician Lighting designer: Mark Galione
    Director: Jenny Jennings
    Set designer: Ellen Kirk
    The History of the Troubles (Accordin' to My Da) Theatre Grand Opera House Belfast, then touring
    GBL Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Frankie McCafferty
    SPLICED Theatre National Handball Centre, Croke Park, then touring
    Chalk It Down Productions     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Eoin Winning
    Director: Gina Moxley
    Conversations on a Crosstown Algorithm Theatre The Granary Theatre
    National Sculpture Factory     		Lighting Designer Director: Doireann O'Malley
    Set designer: Doireann O'Malley
    SPLICED Theatre INEC Killarney, then touring
    Chalk It Down Productions     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Eoin Winning
    Director: Gina Moxley
    Dances Like A Bomb Dance Junk Ensemble Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Stephen Dodd
    Choreographer: Choreography created in collaboration with the cast
    Set designer: Sabine Dargent
    Cinderella (Pantomime) Theatre The Everyman Theatre, Cork
    The Everyman Theatre & CADA     		Production Electrician Lighting designer: Dónal McNinch
    Director: Catherine Mahon-Buckley
    T-Kuir Theatre The Black Box, Belfast
    Outburst Queer Arts Festival     		Lighting Designer Director: Natalia Mallo
    Solar Bones Theatre The Everyman Theatre, Cork
    Rough Magic Theatre Company     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Zia Bergin-Holly
    Director: Lynne Parker
    Set designer: Zia Bergin-Holly
    Tipperary International Dance Festival 2022 Dance The Source Arts Centre
    Tipperary International Dance Festival     		Lighting Programmer
    Lie Low Theatre Project Arts Centre, Dublin, then touring Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Ciaran Bagnall
    Director: Oisín Kearney
    Set designer: Ciaran Bagnall
    Present Laughter Theatre Cork Arts Theatre
    Ian McGurk     		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Alan Mooney
    Director: Mary Curtin
    Set designer: Elisa Gallo Rosso
    How to be a Dancer in Seventy Two Thousand Easy Lessons Theatre The Gate Theatre Dublin
    Teac Damsa     		Assistant Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Adam Silverman
    Director: Rachel Poirier and Adam Silverman
    Set designer: Hyemi Shin
    Anthem Theatre The Vault Belfast
    Eastside Arts Festival     		Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Baxter
    Morrígan Opera Cork Opera House
    Cork Opera House and The Everyman     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Stephen Dodd
    Director: John O’Brien
    Set designer: Alyson Cummins
    Muc Rí Theatre Offsite
    Fíbín     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Michael Cummins
    Director: Philip Doherty
    Set designer: Sabine Dargent
    Guests of the Nation Theatre Cork City
    Corcadorca Theatre Company     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Aedín Cosgrove and Paul Keogan
    Director: Pat Kiernan
    Set designer: Aedín Cosgrove and Paul Keogan
    The Wakefires Theatre Elizabeth Fort
    ANU Productions     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Ciaran Bagnall
    Director: Louise Lowe
    Set designer: Marie Kearns
    Julius Caesar Theatre TU Dublin Blackbox
    TU Conservatoire     		Lighting Designer Director: Aoife Spillane-Hinks
    Set designer: Medb Lambert
    A MACBETH R&D Theatre Union Theatre, London Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Lucy Carter
    Director: Fin Walker
    Mavra / Pierrot Lunaire Opera Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House
    Royal Opera House     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Lucy Carter
    Director: Anthony Almeida
    Set designer: Rosanna Vize
    The Half Moon Theatre The Mac Belfast, then touring
    Green Shoot Productions     		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Alan Mooney
    Director: Emily Foran
    Set designer: Pai Rathaya
    The Revolution Will Be Streamed Theatre Smock Alley Boys School
    Headrush, Ireland     		Lighting Designer Director: Jonathan M. Daley
    All The Angels Theatre The Everyman Theatre, Cork
    Rough Magic Theatre Company     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Sarah Jane Shiels
    Director: Lynne Parker
    Set designer: Sarah Jane Shiels
    Hatch Dance The Civic Theatre, Dublin, then touring
    Fidget Feet Aerial Dance     		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Alan Mooney
    Anthem Theatre Sunflower Bar Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Baxter
    Two Fingers Up Theatre SkelpieLimmer Lighting Designer Director: Gina Donnelly & Seon Simpson
    Blackwater Fitup Festival Theatre Blood In The Alley Lighting Programmer
    Three Men in a Boat Theatre Cork Arts Theatre
    Minnow Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Mags Keohane
    Set designer: Davy Dummigan
    SPLICED Theatre Site-specific (GAA Halls), then touring
    The Everyman Cork in assoc, with Chalk It Down Productions     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Eoin Winning
    Director: Gina Moxley
    The Worst Café in The World Theatre Site Specific
    Big Telly Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Zoe Seaton
    Bingo Wings Dance Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Sarah Jane Shiels
    A Night in November Theatre Soda Bread Theatre Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Conleth White
    Director: Matthew McIlhenny
    Set designer: Chris Hunter
    A Thought For Your Pennies Theatre Site specific piece
    Tinderbox Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Patrick J. O' Reilly
    Assembly Required Theatre The Lyric Theatre Belfast
    Headrush, Ireland     		Lighting Designer Director: Conal Clapper
    Set designer: Tracey Lindsay
    Bouncers Theatre The Mac, Belfast
    The MAC in association with Big Telly Theatre Company     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Sarah Jane Shiels
    Director: Zoe Seaton
    Set designer: Dianna Ennis
    The Wrongs and Rites of Grosvenor Square Theatre Smock Alley Lighting Designer Director: Simon Coury
    He Ain't Heavy Theatre Smock Alley Boys School
    Silver Bullet     		Lighting Designer Director: Emily Foran
    Double Cross Theatre The Lyric Theatre Belfast
    The Lyric Theatre & The Abbey Theatre     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Paul Keogan
    Director: Jimmy Fay
    Set designer: Ciaran Bagnall
    Sweet Sensations Musical Smock Alley Lighting Designer Director: Teri Fitzgerald
    We Like It Here Theatre The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
    Headrush, Ireland     		Lighting Designer Director: Emily Foran
    Set designer: Tracey Lindsay
    Borderland Theatre The Lyric Theatre Belfast
    Soda Bread Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Rhiann Jeffery
    Cock Theatre Granary Theatre
    Theatre Creature Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: John Donovan
    Set designer: Patrick Lehane & Niamh Birkett
    Song Factory Concert Granary Theatre
    Colaiste Stiofain Naofa     		Lighting Designer
    Mary and Me Theatre Wild Productions and Patrick Talbot Productions Lighting Designer Director: Belinda Wild
    Set designer: Lisa Zagone