K.J
Biography
K.J (they/them)
UK based Lighting Designer.
Professional Member of the Association for Lighting Production and Design
ALPD Lumierè 20:20
Website: www.kjlightingdesign.com
Previous productions
Forthcoming productions
Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative team | Opens |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Black Sabbath: The Ballet | Dance |
Nieuwe Luxor Theatre, Rotterdam Birmingham Royal Ballet |
Lighting Designer | 12 Jun 2024 | |
Tender | Theatre |
Derby Theatre, then touring Phosphoros Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Pavlos Christodoulou Set designer: Jida Akil |
29 Apr 2024 |
Previous productions
Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative Team | Opened |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
On The Nature of Rabbits | Dance |
Joyce Theater Pontus Lidberg Dance |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Pontus Lidberg |
Mar 2024 |
Lines | Theatre |
Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, Sheffield, then touring Roots Mbili |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Junaid Surieddeen Set designer: Kevin Jenkins |
Feb 2024 |
The F*****s and their Friends Between Revolutions | Opera |
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Manchester International Festival |
Associate Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Bertrand Couderc Director: Ted Huffman Set designer: Rosie Elnile |
Jan 2024 |
Jockstrap | Concert | Barbican Concert Hall | Lighting Designer | Dec 2023 | |
FLIP! | Theatre |
Soho Theatre Fuel Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Emily Aboud Set designer: Anna Robinson |
Nov 2023 |
Traces Through Time | Dance |
Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House Fallen Angels Dance Theatre |
Lighting Designer | Nov 2023 | |
Black Sabbath: The Ballet | Dance |
Birmingham Hippodrome, then touring Birmingham Royal Ballet |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Pontus Lidberg , Choreographer: Raul Reinoso & Cassi Abranches Set designer: Alexandre Arrechea |
Sep 2023 |
On The Nature of Rabbits | Dance |
Teatro alle Tese Venice Biennale |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Pontus Lidberg |
Jul 2023 |
F*****s And Their Friends Between Revolutions | Theatre |
HOME Manchester, then touring Manchester International Festival |
Associate Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Bertrand Couderc Director: Ted Huffman Set designer: Rosie Elnile |
Jun 2023 |
Applause | Musical |
PATS Studio Theatre Guildford School of Acting |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Stewart Nicholls Set designer: Roger Ness |
Mar 2023 |
Company | Musical |
PATS Studio Theatre Guildford School of Acting |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Alison Pollard Set designer: Roger Ness |
Mar 2023 |
My Brother’s Keeper | Theatre | Theatre503 | Lighting Designer |
Director: Robert Awosusi Set designer: Amanda Ramasawmy |
Feb 2023 |
Who’s Holiday | Theatre |
HOME Manchester Tuckshop |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Kirk Jameson |
Nov 2022 |
Shed | Dance | Lighting Designer | Oct 2022 | ||
Hotel | Dance |
Birmingham Hippodrome, then touring Birmingham Royal Ballet |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Morgann Runacre-Temple Set designer: Sami Fendall |
Oct 2022 |
Dogs | Theatre | Liverpool Playhouse Studio | Lighting Designer |
Director: Nathan Powell |
Oct 2022 |
Happy Meal | Theatre |
Traverse Theatre, then touring Roots/Theatre Royal Playmouth/ETT |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jamie Fletcher Set designer: Ben Stones |
Aug 2022 |
Masters Showcase | Theatre |
Bellairs Theate Guildford School of Acting |
Lighting Designer | Jul 2022 | |
Knot of the Heart | Theatre |
The Lab, Birmingham Conservatoire Birmingham Conservatoire |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Chris White |
Jun 2022 |
Smile | Musical |
The Mack Mountview |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Julia Locascio Set designer: Rhyannon Richardson |
Jun 2022 |
Celebrated Virgins | Theatre |
Theatr Clwyd Theatr Clwyd |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Eleri B. Jones Set designer: Holly Pigott |
May 2022 |
Coming to England | Musical |
Birmingham Rep Birmingham Rep |
Assistant Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Bretta Gerecke Director: Omar Okai Set designer: Bretta Gerecke |
Mar 2022 |
As You Like It | Theatre |
New Vic Theatre Northern Broadsides |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Laurie Sansom Set designer: E.M.Parry |
Feb 2022 |
West Side Story Symphonic Dances | Dance |
Leeds Grand Theatre, then touring Opera North |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Dane Hurst Set designer: Charles Edwards |
Oct 2021 |
Halfway and Beyond | Dance |
Leeds Grand Theatre, then touring Opera North |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Dane Hurst Set designer: Charles Edwards |
Oct 2021 |
Decades | Theatre |
Leeds Playhouse Leeds Playhouse |
Lighting Designer |
Director: James Brining , Director: Sameena Hussain , Director: Amanda Huxtable , Director: Amy Leach , Director: Evie Manning , Director: Tess Seddon Set designer: Amanda Stoodley |
May 2021 |
EBO | Dance |
Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre Phoenix Dance Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Miguel Altunaga |
May 2021 |
Head Above Water | Dance |
Dance East, Ipswich, then touring Joss Arnott Dance |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Joss Arnott |
Oct 2020 |
Khepri | Dance |
Dance East, Ipswich, then touring Joss Arnott Dance |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa |
Oct 2020 |
Black Waters | Dance |
Leeds Playhouse, then touring Phoenix Dance Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Sharon Watson , Choreographer: Shambik Ghose and Dr Mitul Sengupta |
Feb 2020 |
Infra | Dance |
Finnish National Opera, Helsinki Finnish National Ballet |
Touring Re-Lighter |
Lighting designer: Lucy Carter Choreographer: Wayne McGregor Set designer: Julian Opie |
Sep 2019 |
Innocent Children | Dance |
Riley Theatre, Leeds Northern School of Contemporary Dance |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Sade and Kristina Alleyne |
Jul 2019 |
Rust | Theatre |
Bush Theatre, then touring HighTide / Bush Theatre |
Associate Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Jess Bernberg Director: Eleanor Rhode Set designer: Max Johns |
Jun 2019 |
the sea tells a story | Dance |
Riley Theatre, Leeds, then touring Verve Dance Company |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Ben Wright |
Feb 2019 |
Songlines | Theatre |
HighTide Festival, then touring Hightide/DugOut Theatre |
Associate Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Jess Bernberg Director: George Chilcott Set designer: Lizzy Leech |
Sep 2018 |
FIM | Dance |
None/R&D Theo TJ Lowe |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Theo TJ Lowe |
Jul 2018 |
Waves | Dance |
Laban Theatre Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Joss Arnott |
Jul 2018 |
HE-SHA | Dance |
Laban Theatre Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Theo 'TJ' Lowe |
Jul 2018 |
Everything Between Us | Theatre | Finborough Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Neil Bull Set designer: Laura Cordery |
Apr 2017 |
In The Land of Invented Languages | Dance | Laban Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Jessica Wright |
Oct 2016 |
Wasted | Theatre | Kings Head Theatre, Islington | Lighting Designer |
Director: Kat Woods |
Sep 2016 |
Location availability:
- Worldwide
Contact method | Details |
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Website | www.kieronjohnsonlighting.com |
Theatre:
- Commercial Tour
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
- Small Scale Touring
- Fringe / Pub Theatre
Musical:
- Commercial Tour
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
- Small Scale / Fringe
- Pantomime
Opera:
- Large scale
Dance:
- International
- UK National Company
- Large Scale
- Medium Scale
- Small Scale
- Education Establishment
- Touring relights
Non-professional:
- Dance
- Musicals
- Plays
News
Appearing here soon... a collection of articles from the Focus magazine archives.
Press quotes
Decades
The six disparate plays are held together by Amanda Stoodley’s flexible set design: a series of oddly beautiful scaffolding structures, elegantly lit by Kieron Johnson, suggestive of the changing structures of the city around the Playhouse.
Catherine Love, The Guardian 24/05/2021
Black Waters
The dancers also have the benefit of Kieron Johnson's stunning lighting design. This skillfully evokes everything from a stage full of cramped cells to the moving seas.
Jonathan Cash, Reviews Hub
The lighting (by Kieron Johnson) plays a huge part in the piece. Haze hangs over the whole stage, through which narrow side-lighting is able to pick out even the smallest of details: at one point all that is being illuminated is a hand - but that hand was so expressive! The absolute precision of the lighting is a major contributor to the overall effect.
Peter Lathan, British Theatre Guide
Kieron Johnson's lighting design is outstanding.
Mike Dixon, Dance Europe