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    Joseph Ed Thomas

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    Biography

    Joseph Ed Thomas, Lighting Designer.

    Joseph trained at The ArtsEducational Schools London and RADA.

    Joseph has designed shows in London and throughout the UK and Asia. Highlights include…

    International Lighting Design Credits:                                                                                                                                                                                                         ONCE (Tokyu Theatre, Tokyo, Japan), ONCE (China Tour).

    West End and Touring Lighting Design Credits: 

    Carrie Hope Fletcher, An Open Book (UK Tour), Dr.Zhivago, Annie Get Your Gun, ONCE (London Palladium), Collabro, The Farewell Tour (UK Tour), Tango After Dark (Co-Design with Charlie Morgan Jones, Peacock Theatre), The Secret Garden, CAMELOT (London Palladium), John Owen Jones - Music of the Night Tour and Lucie Jones at Christmas (Her Majesty's Theatre, St Davids Hall Cardiff), Collabro, Greatest Hits Tour (London Palladium, Lowry Theatre, Birmingham Symphony Hall and more... UK TOUR), Julius "Call Me Caesar" Caesar (Arts Theatre, West End).

    Lighting Design Credits:

    Possession (Arcola Theatre), HELEN (Theatre503), Under the Black Rock*** (Arcola Theatre), CRACKED (The Vaults, Waterloo), Cabaret Havana, Why the Whale Came (The Mack, Mountview), Little Voice (UK Tour) as Associate Lighting Designer for Nic Farman, The Pleasure Garden (Above The Stag), 39 and Counting (PARK Theatre 200), Well-Behaved Women (Cadogan Hall), Our Girls Our Game (Alhambra Theatre, Bradford), Wind in the Willows (Theatre Royal Norwich, Turbine Theatre and LATITUDE), EVITA, Moments in Time and The Liberators (Eve Lyons Studio Theatre, PPA), John Owen Jones Celebrating his 50th Birthday - Live at Cadogan Hall, Lucie Jones and David Hunter LIVE! (Cadogan Hall), Rock Choir (Birmingham REP), Collabro, Christmas is Here (Cadogan Hall), Rags (PARK Theatre) as Associate Lighting Designer for Derek Anderson, LOST BOYS (Unity Theatre/Tour), Fight Like A Girl (Mountview), A Million Dreams (O2 Indigo). Amongst others…

    ​***Offie Nominated Best Lighting Design 2023

    ​**Offie Nominated Best Lighting Design 2021

    ​*Offie Nominated Best Lighting Design 2019

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    Specialisms

    Theatre:
    • West End
    • Commercial Tour
    • Regional (Main House)
    • Regional (Studio)
    • Small Scale Touring
    • Fringe / Pub Theatre
    • Education Establishment
    • Touring relights
    Musical:
    • West End
    • Commercial Tour
    • Regional (Main House)
    • Regional (Studio)
    • Small Scale / Fringe
    • Pantomime
    • Education Establishment
    • Touring relights
    Opera:
    • 'Country House'
    Dance:
    • Large Scale
    • Medium Scale
    Concert:
    • Arena Touring
    • Stage Touring
    • Club
    • Festival
    • Touring relights
    Corporate:
    • Product Launches
    • Award Ceremonies
    • Open Air Events
    Architectural:
    • Commercial & Retail
    • Leisure & Entertainment
    Non-professional:
    • Dance
    • Musicals
    • Opera
    • Plays
    • Projection / Video Design

    Availability

    Previous productions

    Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
    Diana the Musical Musical Hammersmith Apollo
    Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson     		Lighting Designer Director: Owen Horsley
    The Overtones - Good Times Tour Concert Indigo O2 + UK Tour Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Co-Lighting Designer: Craig Greenhalgh
    Director: The Overtones
    Set designer: Craig Greenhalgh
    Hans Zimmer in Concert Concert Cheltenham Race Course
    The Studio Orchestra     		Lighting Designer Director: Jack Campey
    Loose Women Live Concert London Palladium + UK Tour
    Cuffe&Taylor/ LiveNation/ LambertJackson     		Lighting Designer Director: ITV
    Set designer: JET STREAM and Jonny Dickie
    The Trials Theatre Marlowe Theatre Canterbury
    Marlowe Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: David Gilbert and Deborah Shaw
    Set designer: Tara Usher
    ONCE (Japan Transfer) Musical Tokyu Theatre Orb
    LambertJackson and Kyodo Tokyo     		Lighting Designer Director: Dean Johnson
    Set designer: JET STREAM and Jonny Dickie
    Possession Theatre Arcola Studio 1
    Arcola Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Oscar Pearce
    Set designer: Sarah Beaton
    Carrie Hope Fletcher - An Open Book Concert London Palladium + UK Tour
    Cuffe&Taylor/ LiveNation/ LambertJackson     		Lighting Designer Set designer: JET STREAM
    Dr Zhivago Musical London Palladium
    Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson     		Lighting Designer Set designer: JET STREAM
    WILD TANGO Dance European Tour
    German Cornejo's Dance Company     		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Co-Lighting Designer: Charlie Morgan Jones
    Annie Get Your Gun Musical London Palladium
    Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson     		Lighting Designer Set designer: JET STREAM
    Once Musical London Palladium
    Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson     		Lighting Designer Director: Dean Johnson
    Set designer: JET STREAM
    Under The Black Rock Theatre Arcola
    Bluebird Productions Ltd     		Lighting Designer Director: Ben Kavanagh
    Set designer: Ceci Calf
    COLLABRO, Farewell Tour Concert The Adelphi Theatre, London + UK Tour, then touring
    Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson     		Lighting Designer Director: Matt Pagan
    Set designer: JET
    Darknet Theatre Chroma Q Theatre
    Leeds Conservatoire     		Lighting Designer Director: Yusuf Khamisa
    Set designer: Lu Herbert
    Tango After Dark Dance The Peacock Theatre, London
    Sadlers Wells     		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Co-Lighting Designer: Charlie Morgan Jones
    Choreographer: German Cornejo
    John Owen Jones - Music of Night Tour Concert Her Majesty’s London Lighting Designer Director: John Owen Jones
    The Secret Garden the Musical Musical The London Palladium
    Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson     		Lighting Designer Director: Nick Winston
    Cabaret Havana Musical The Mack, Mountview
    BYMT     		Lighting Designer Director: Tiffany King
    Set designer: Abi Brown
    Why The Whales Came Musical The Mack, Mountview
    BYMT     		Lighting Designer Director: Simon Kane
    Set designer: Lu Herbert
    The Convert Theatre Above The Stag Theatre, Main House
    Above The Stag     		Lighting Designer Director: Gene David Kirk
    Set designer: David Shields
    Little Voice Theatre MAST- Southampton, then touring
    Aria Entertainment     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Nic Farman
    Director: Bronagh Lagan
    Set designer: Sara Perks
    Jewish Hollywood Musical Upstairs at the Gatehouse
    Aria Entertainment     		Lighting Designer Director: Cressida Carrè
    Camelot Musical London Palladium
    Lambert Jackson     		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Butler
    Lucie Jones at Christmas Concert Her Majesty’s London
    Lambert Jackson     		Lighting Designer Director: Eliza Jackson
    Cinderella - Pantomime Dance Millfield Theatre
    Platinum Performing Arts     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Various
    Collabro, Greatest Hits Tour Concert UK tour
    SJM     		Lighting Designer Director: Collabro
    Set designer: JET and Robins Audio
    The Pleasure Garden Musical Above The Stag Theatre, Main House
    Above The Stag     		Lighting Designer Director: Fenton Gray
    Set designer: David Shields
    39 and Counting Theatre The Park Theatre, 200
    Oxford School of Drama     		Lighting Designer Director: Gemma Aked-Priestley
    Set designer: Natalie Johnson
    Well Behaved Women Musical Cadogan Hall
    Lambert Jackson     		Lighting Designer Director: Julie Atherton
    Tommy On Top Theatre Above The Stag Theatre, Main House
    Above The Stag     		Lighting Designer Director: Bryan Hodgson
    Set designer: David Shields
    Baskerville Theatre Mercury Colchester Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jo Town
    PLATINUM TRENDING Dance Millfield Theatre
    Platinum Performing Arts     		Lighting Designer
    The Wind in the Willows Musical Norwich Theatre Royal
    Paul Taylor-Mills and Turbine Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Sasha Regan
    Set designer: David Shields
    Evita Musical Eve Lyons Studio Theatre
    PPA     		Lighting Designer Director: Lizzi Gee
    Moments In Time Musical Eve Lyons Studio Theatre
    PPA     		Lighting Designer
    The Liberators Theatre Eve Lyons Studio Theatre
    PPA     		Lighting Designer Director: Michelle Payne
    John Owen Jones - Celebrating his 50th Birthday Concert Cadogan Hall
    Lambert Jackson     		Lighting Designer
    Lucie Jones and David Hunter Live Concert Cadogan Hall
    Lambert Jackson     		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lambert
    , Director: David Hunter
    , Director: Lucie Jones
    Rock Choir, Comic Relief Concert Musical Birmingham Rep
    Rock Choir     		Lighting Designer
    Collabro Christmas is Here Concert Cadogan Hall
    Lambert Jackson     		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lambert
    Robes Charity Sleep In Live from Southwark Cathedral Television Southwark Cathedral
    Robes Charity     		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Co-Lighting Designer Will Alder
    Guys and Dolls Theatre Rose Theatre, Ascot
    St Mary’s Ascot     		Lighting Designer
    39 Degrees Theatre The Vaults - Cage
    RedBellyBlack     		Lighting Designer Director: Alistair Wilkinson
    Who Cares Theatre The Vaults - Cage
    JustAddMilk     		Lighting Designer Director: Tom Bellerby
    Set designer: Justin Williams
    Welcome to Shangri-La Theatre Hope Mill Theatre
    Broken Biscuits     		Lighting Designer Director: Joel Parry
    Set designer: Abby Clarke
    The Spark of Creation Concert Park Theatre
    Aria Entertainment     		Lighting Designer
    RAGS the Musical Musical Park Theatre 200
    Aria Entertainment, Knockhardy Productions and Park Theatre     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Derek Anderson
    Director: Bronagh Lagan
    Set designer: Gregor Donnelly
    The Love of The Nightingale Theatre The Tower Theatre
    The MTA     		Lighting Designer Director: Tilly Vosburgh
    Set designer: Stewart J Charlesworth
    Dick Whittington Musical The Tower Theatre
    The MTA     		Lighting Designer Director: Howard Samuels
    Set designer: Stewart J Charlesworth
    I Do, I Do Musical Upstairs at the Gatehouse
    Joseph Hodges Entertainment     		Lighting Designer Director: Joe Hodges
    Set designer: Emily Bestow
    Now & Then Musical Above The Stag Theatre
    Above The Stag     		Lighting Designer Director: Harry Blumenau
    Set designer: David Shields
    Lost Boys Theatre Unity Theatre, Liverpool, then touring
    National Youth Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Zoe Lafferty
    Set designer: Jasmine Swan
    Fight Like A Girl Musical Mountview Main House
    British Youth Music Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Nick Stimson
    Set designer: Talia Sanz, Set designer: Asst. Annie Cross
    Woyzeck Theatre Greenside Infirmary Street - Forest Theatre
    Missing Cat Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Joshua Silverlock
    Set designer: Fran Jones
    Making P*rn Theatre Above The Stag Theatre
    Above The Stag     		Lighting Designer Director: Andrew Beckett
    Set designer: Andrew Beckett
    Julius "Call Me Caesar" Caesar Theatre Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh
    Andrew Maxwell     		Lighting Designer Director: Russell Bolam
    Set designer: Maeve Black
    Woyzeck Theatre Quirkspace
    Missing Cat Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Joshua Silverlock
    Set designer: Fran Jones
    PROM! the Musical Musical Oldham Coliseum
    Oldham Theatre Workshop     		Lighting Designer Director: James Atherton
    Perfectly Ordinary - A New Musical Musical Hope Mill Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Matthew Rankcom
    Set designer: Frankie Gerrard
    Julius "Call Me Caesar" Caesar Theatre The Arts Theatre, West End
    Andrew Maxwell     		Lighting Designer Director: Russell Bolam
    Set designer: Maeve Black
    A Million Dreams Dance Indigo at the O2
    Make Believe     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Various
    Boy Toy Dance Above The Stag Theatre
    Above The Stag     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: William Spencer
    Set designer: Andrew Beckett
    The Psychic Project Theatre The Vaults, London
    David Narayan Magic     		Lighting Designer Director: David Narayan
    Sister Act the Musical Musical The Vaults, London
    Associated Studios     		Lighting Designer Director: Cameron Menzies
    Ad Libido Theatre Soho Theater, London Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Peter Small
    PURGE Theatre The Lowry, Manchester Lighting Designer Director: Kayleigh Hawkins
    PURGE Theatre Oldham Coliseum Lighting Designer Director: Kayleigh Hawkins
    Digging Deep Theatre The Vaults, London
    JustAddMilk     		Lighting Designer Director: Alistair Wilkinson
    Set designer: Emily Nobel
    MYDIDAE Theatre Hope Mill Theatre
    Wonderhouse     		Lighting Designer Director: Laura Woodward
    Set designer: Natalie Johnson
    Of Our Own Making Theatre Tara Arts, London
    Something Underground     		Lighting Designer Director: Jonathan Brown
    Set designer: Sorcha Corcoran
    AISHA Theatre Tristan Bates Theatre
    AILIA UK     		Lighting Designer Director: AJ
    Set designer: Alys Whitehead
    AISHA Theatre Old Red Lion
    AILIA UK     		Lighting Designer Director: AJ
    Set designer: Alys Whitehead
    Proof Theatre Hope Mill Theatre
    Hope Mill Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Joseph Houston
    Set designer: Frankie Gerrard
    An Honourable Man Theatre The White Bear Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Jolly Gosnold
    Set designer: Mike Lees
    Tainted - A New Musical Theatre The Vaults Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Bryan Hodgson
    Set designer: Mike Lees
    Lost Boys New Town Theatre The Hope Theatre
    National Youth Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Zoe Lafferty
    Set designer: Jasmine Swan
    Closets the Musical Musical Hope Mill Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Lloyd Eyre-Morgan
    Perfectly Ordinary - A New Musical Theatre GLive Guilford Lighting Designer Director: Matthew Rankcom
    Set designer: JT
    The 43 Club Theatre The Other Palace Lighting Designer Director: Leah Fogo
    Set designer: JT
    The Jury Musical The Brindley
    Ashley Walsh Productions Ltd. & Josh Hankey     		Lighting Designer Director: Joseph Meighan
    Shakespeare's Sister Theatre The Courtyard Theatre
    The Courtyard Theatre Co.     		Lighting Designer Director: Jake Smith
    Set designer: Jamie Simmons
    A Chorus Line Theatre ArtsEd - London
    ArtsEd     		Lighting Designer Director: Mark Ferrington
    The Blue Electric Wind Theatre Bush Theatre, London
    ArtsEd Extra     		Lighting Designer Director: Jonathan Goodwin
    Drowned or Saved Theatre Drayton Arm Theatre - Kentish Town
    StormBlast     		Lighting Designer Director: Geoffrey Williams
    Lobster Theatre Theatre503
    Snapper Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Kayla Feldman
    Set designer: Jamie Simmons
    Down The Hatch Theatre GBS Theatre, RADA
    Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)     		Lighting Designer Director: Vivian Munn
    Set designer: Eleanor Field
    Miracle on 34th Street Theatre BridgeHouse Theatre SE20
    Climar Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Guy Retallack
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