Luca Panetta

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    Biography

    Luca is a freelance lighting designer, video designer and lighting programmer and associate. He won a Profile Award in 2025 for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.

     

    Recent Lighting Design Credits include 

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    Maria de Rudenz  (Battersea Arts Centre) for which he won a Profile Award;  If Operas 2022, 2023, 2025 Seasons (Multiple Venues);   Polko (Paines Plough Roundabout);   Edith (The Lowry / Theatr Clwyd);   Cendrillon and Albert Herring (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire);    Diary of a Somebody (Seven Dials Playhouse) for which he was nominated for an Offie in Lighting Design;   The Faction’s Triple Bill of Medea/Worn, Douglass, and Duende (Wilton’s Music Hall, & Stephen Joseph Theatre);   A Double Bill of The Wardrobe Ensemble's Education, Education, Education and The Last of the Pelican Daughtersdirected by Sarah Frankcom (ArtsEd ALWF Theatre)​

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    Credits as Associate Lighting Designer and LX Programmer include:

     

    Associate :   Pride (National Theatre); A Christmas Carol / Mary Page Marlowe (The Old Vic - ITR); Barcelona (West End); Why Am I So Single? (West End);  The Merchant of Venice 1936 (RSC, & UK Tour);   Macbeth (Liverpool, Edinburgh, London, Washington DC);   The Real & Imagined History of The Elephant Man (UK Tour);  The Children (Nottingham Playhouse);  Barnum (Watermill);   

    Credits as Video Associate include:  Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (Mischief Theatre UK Tour, & Virgin Voyages);     Carousel (RAM) 

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    Programmer : Much Ado About Nothing  (West End);  Fear of 13 / The Maids (Donmar);   All is But Fantasy (Royal Shakespeare Company);  Little Foxes / The Homecoming / Passing Strange /  A Face In The Crowd (Young Vic);   Jesus Christ Superstar (Watermill);    A View From The Bridge (Chichester Festival Theatre & Rose Theatre);   Richard My Richard (Shakespeare North Playhouse);    My Fathers Fable  /  Playlist for a Revolution (Bush Theatre);   Sons of the Prophet /  The Apology /  The Fellowship /  Mary (Hampstead Theatre);  The Apology (Arcola Theatre);   

    Website - lucapanetta.com

    Specialisms

    Theatre:
    • West End
    • Commercial Tour
    • Regional (Main House)
    • Small Scale Touring
    • Education Establishment
    • Touring relights
    • Projection / Video Design
    Opera:
    • 'Country House'
    • Education Establishment
    • Projection / Video Design

    Previous productions

    Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
    Pride Musical Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Hugh Vanstone
    The Maids Theatre St Ann's Warehouse
    Donmar Warehouse     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jon Clark
    Pride Musical Sherman Theatre
    National Theatre     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Hugh Vanstone
    Midnight Musical Sadler's Wells East Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Rory Beaton
    Barnum Musical BKL Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    All is But Fantasy Musical Royal Shakespeare Theatre,The Other Place
    Crossroads Pantomimes     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Ryan Day
    Robin Hood Theatre New Wimbledon Theatre
    Crossroads Pantomimes     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Rory Beaton
    A Christmas Carol Theatre The Old Vic, London Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Hugh Vanstone
    Die Rheinnixen Opera Battersea Arts Centre - Grand Hall
    Gothic Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Max Hoehn
    The Maids Theatre Donmar Warehouse Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jon Clark
    Mary Page Marlowe Theatre The Old Vic, London Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Hugh Vanstone
    Get Down Tonight Musical Charing Cross Theatre
    ATG Productions     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    Not Your Superwoman Theatre Bush Theatre Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    Rigoletto Opera Church Farm
    If Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Nina Brazier
    Saving Mozart Musical The Other Palace Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Ben Jacobs
    Hyundai 6 N Launch Corporate & Industrial Goodwood Festival of Speed
    Hyundai N // Collaborate     		Lighting Designer
    Jesus Christ Superstar Musical Watermill Theatre Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Rory Beaton
    Traplord Dance Sadler’s Wells East Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Simisola Majekodunmi
    Much Ado about Nothing Theatre Theatre Royal Drury Lane
    Jamie Lloyd Co.     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jon Clark
    Director: Jamie Lloyd
    Albert Herring Opera Gas Street Central Lighting Designer Director: Rebecca Meltzer
    The Little Foxes Theatre The Young Vic Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Lucy Carter
    Maria de Rudenz Opera Battersea Arts Centre - Grand Hall
    Gothic Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Lysanne van Overbeek
    Barcelona Theatre Duke of York's Theatre, West End
    ATG Productions     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    The Fear of 13 Theatre Donmar Warehouse Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jon Clark
    A Face In The Crowd Musical The Young Vic Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jackie Shemesh
    Why Am I So Single? Musical Garrick Theatre, West End Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    Into The Woods Musical LAMDA - The Sainsbury Theatre Lighting Designer
    Sam Wu Is Not Afraid of Ghosts Theatre Polka Theatre Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Gillian Tan
    Barnum Musical Watermill Theatre Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    My Father's Fable Theatre Bush Theatre Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Simisola Majekodunmi
    Passing Strange Theatre The Young Vic Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Richard Howell
    Birthmarked Theatre Lowry / Stratford East / Brighton ACCA, then touring Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    The Children Theatre Nottingham Playhouse Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jamie Platt
    Richard My Richard Theatre Shakespeare North Playhouse / Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds
    Shakespeare North Playhouse     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Philip Gladwell
    Cendrillon Opera Gas Street Central Lighting Designer Director: Matthew Eberhardt
    Macbeth Theatre Wessex Grove / Underbelly Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    Director: Simon Godwin
    The Homecoming Theatre Young Vic Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Sally Ferguson
    A View from the Bridge Theatre Chichester Festival Theatre // Rose Theatre Kingston
    Headlong     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Alex Fernandes
    Death Trap Dance Rambert Dance Company Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jackie Shemesh
    Sputnik Sweetheart Theatre Arcola Theatre Video / Projection Programmer
    The Merchant of Venice 1936 Theatre RSC : Swan Theatre Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Rory Beaton
    The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man Theatre Nottingham Playhouse Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    Iolanta Opera Wiltshire Music Centre
    If Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Lysanne van Overbeek
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Opera Belcombe Court
    If Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Lysanne van Overbeek
    Fedora Opera Belcombe Court
    If Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: John Wilkie
    Birthmarked Theatre Bristol Old Vic // Edinburgh Assembly Ballroom
    Horizon Showcase / Bristol Old Vic     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    Polko Theatre Paines Plough Roundabout @ Summer Hall
    RJG Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Emily Ling Williams
    A Playlist for the Revolution Theatre Bush Theatre Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Gillian Tan
    Accidental Death of an Anarchist Theatre Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
    Playful Productions     		Draftsperson Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    Broken Toys Theatre Cervantes Theatre
    Spanish Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer
    Worth Theatre Arcola, London / Storyhouse, Chester
    New Earth Theatre / Storyhouse, Chester     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    Insides Theatre Pleasance Theatre, London
    Seagull Theatre     		Lighting Designer
    The Merchant of Venice 1936 Theatre HOME Manchester, T1
    Watford Palace Theatre, HOME & Trafalgar Theatre Productions     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Rory Beaton
    Director: Brigid Larmour
    Edith Theatre The Lowry, then touring
    Crowded Room     		Lighting & Projection / Video Designer Director: Madelaine Moore
    Set designer: Sascha Gilmour
    Sons of the Prophet Theatre Hampstead Theatre
    Hampstead Theatre     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jack Knowles
    Director: Bijan Sheibani
    Set designer: Samal Blak
    Cinderella Theatre Theatre Royal Stratford East Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Gillian Tan
    Director: Eva Sampson
    Set designer: Charlotte Espiner
    Mary Theatre Hampstead Theatre Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Matt Haskins
    Director: Roxana Silbert
    Set designer: Ashley Martin-Davis
    Education, Education, Education Theatre ALWF Theatre, Arts Ed Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Frankcom
    Set designer: Ruth Badila
    The Last of the Pelican Daughters Theatre ALWF Theatre, Arts Ed Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Frankcom
    Set designer: Ruth Badila
    The Apology Theatre Arcola Theatre
    New Earth Theatre     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Gillian Tan
    Director: Ria Parry
    Set designer: TK Hay
    Il segreto di Susanna Opera Belcombe Court
    If Opera     		Lighting & Projection / Video Designer Director: Daisy Brown
    Set designer: Bettina John
    Rita Opera Belcombe Court
    If Opera     		Lighting & Projection / Video Designer Director: Lysanne van Overbeek
    Set designer: Bettina John
    La Rondine Opera Belcombe Court
    If Opera     		Lighting & Projection / Video Designer Director: Bruno Ravella
    Set designer: Flavio Graff
    The Fellowship Theatre Hampstead Theatre
    Hampstead Theatre     		Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Mark Jonathan
    Director: Paulette Randall
    Set designer: Libby Watson
    Jesus Christ Superstar Musical LAMDA - The Sainsbury Theatre
    LAMDA     		Lighting Designer Director: Annabel Mutale Reed
    Set designer: Amy Jane Cook
    The Wonderful World of Dissocia Theatre LAMDA - The Sainsbury Theatre
    LAMDA     		Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Meadows
    Set designer: Amy Jane Cook
    Diary of a Somebody Theatre Seven Dials Playhouse
    Making Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Nico Rao Pimparé
    Set designer: Valentine Gigandet
    La Forza Del Destino Opera Regents Opera Lighting Designer Director: Rory Fazan
    A Christmas Carol Theatre Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Assistant Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Rory Beaton
    Director: John Terry
    Set designer: Liz Cooke
    Snow White Theatre Hull New Theatre
    Crossroads Pantomimes     		Assistant Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Rory Beaton
    Director: David Burrows
    Cinderella : The AWESOME Truth Musical Polka Theatre Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Gillian Tan
    Director: Sarah Punshon
    Set designer: Oliver Townsend
    60 Miles by Road or Rail Theatre Northampton Royal & Derngate Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Rory Beaton
    Set designer: Lizzy Leech
    Julius Caesar Theatre Sainsbury Theatre, London
    LAMDA     		Lighting & Projection / Video Designer Director: Rachel Valentine-Smith
    Set designer: Valentine Gigandet
    Cymbeline Theatre Sainsbury Theatre, London
    LAMDA     		Lighting Designer Director: Anna Marsland
    Set designer: Valentine Gigandet
    Let The Right One In Theatre Carne Studio Theatre
    LAMDA     		Lighting Designer Director: Matt Hassall
    Set designer: Natasha Jenkins
    Contact method Details
    Email address luca.panetta@outlook.com
    Website www.lucapanetta.com