Cheng Keng

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    Biography

    About

    Cheng Keng is an award winning lighting designer graduated from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Scenography MFA. He is an artist/designer in performance art originally from Taiwan and based in London currently. He works with set, lighting and video to build the visual narrative and dramaturgy. Since 2015, He has designed and created works in contemporary performance, opera, experimental theatre, devising performance and online exhibition. His lighting design for Loop wins OFFIES Design 2025/26.

     

    Theatre credits include: Welcome to Pemfort(Soho); Tell me straight&Aggy(Park); Loop(Theatre503); The Quiz(Cockpit); Poetess(Jack Dome); Testament(Arcola); Bungalow(Theatre 503), Riders To the sea(MAST); The Light Princess(The ARC); Going for Gold(Park Theatre); The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker(Omnibus); Frankenstein and Rain Weaver(Both Cockpit); Grud(Hampstead Theatre); Grills, Project Atom Boi and So That You May Go Beyond The Sea(All CPT); 1884(Shoreditch Town Hall); The Littlest Yak(Marlowe studio); Chriskirkpatrickmas(Seven Dials Playhouse); Tiger(Omnibus); 555: Verlaine En Prison; Double Bill At the statue of Venus and La Voix Humaine (Arcola); 1984(The Cockpit); Let Your Hands Sing In The Silence(Marlowe Theatre); These Words That'll Linger Like Ghosts Till The Day I Drop Down Dead(The Pleasance); The Retreat and Pennyroyal(Both Finborough); The Zone(Taoyuan art centre); Sankofa: Before the whitewash(Roundhouse); Beauty and the 7 Beasts(Brixton Jamm); Borders(Drayton Arms Theatre); Blue Island 99(International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival) and Hello World(National Taichung Theatre, Taiwan). ​​

    Assistant lighting designer credit includes: The Human Body(LD:Joshua Pharo, Donmar Warehouse).

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    Specialisms

    Theatre:
    • International
    • Regional (Studio)
    • Small Scale Touring
    • Fringe / Pub Theatre
    • Touring relights
    • Projection / Video Design
    Opera:
    • Small scale
    • Projection / Video Design
    Dance:
    • International
    • Medium Scale
    • Small Scale
    • Touring relights

    Previous productions

    Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
    LOOP Theatre Theatre503
    SH Production     		Lighting & Projection / Video Designer Director: Sophie Ellerby
    Set designer: Mydd Pharo
    Testament Opera Arcola Theatre Studio 1
    Green Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Tobias Millard
    Set designer: Kit Hinchcliffe
    Bungalow Theatre Theatre 503 Lighting Designer Director: Beth Kapila
    Set designer: Caitlin Mawhinney
    Riders to the Sea Opera MAST- Southampton, then touring
    Opera Upclose     		Lighting & Projection / Video Designer Director: Flora McIntosh
    Set designer: Cheng Keng
    The Light Princess Theatre ARC Stockton, then touring
    LAS Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Barra Collins
    Set designer: Sean Turner
    The Lonesome Death fF Eng Bunker Theatre Omnibus Theatre Clapham Lighting Designer Director: Iskandar Sharazuddin
    Set designer: Erin Guan
    Grud Theatre Hampstead Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
    Set designer: NOEMI DABOCZI
    Grills Theatre Camden People's Theatre
    Mirror Ball     		Lighting Designer Director: Chloe Christian
    Set designer: Cara Evans
    Project Atom Boi Theatre Camden People's Theatre
    Ensemble Not Found     		Lighting Designer Director: He Zhang
    Set designer: Erin Guan
    So That You May Go Beyond The Sea Theatre Camden People's Theatre
    Undone theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Joey Jepps & Gabriele Ubold
    Set designer: Cheng Keng
    1884 Theatre Shoreditch Town Hall Lighting Designer Director: Tatenda Shamiso
    Set designer: Jacob Wu
    The Human Body Theatre Donmar Warehouse Assistant Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Joshua Pharo
    Director: Michael Longhurst & Ann Yee
    Set designer: Fly Davis
    The Littlest Yak Theatre The Marlowe Theatre Studio
    LAS Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Barra Collins
    Set designer: Alison Alexander
    Tiger Theatre Omnibus Theatre Clapham Lighting Designer Director: Myles O'Gordon
    Set designer: Hazel Low
    1984 Theatre Cockpit Theatre
    London Youth Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Pesskin
    Let your hands sing in the silence Theatre The Marlowe Theatre Studio Lighting Designer Director: Maria Aberg
    Set designer: Ana Inés Jabares-Pita
    Contact method Details
    Email address chengkengwork@gmail.com