About

I’m a freelance lighting designer and associate lighting designer based in London, working primarily in theatre. I enjoy working in close collaboration with a creative team, and firmly believe in the idea of the designer as dramaturge. My work relies on a close relationship with the rest of the creative team and utilises close scrutiny of text & source material combined with a constructive, active contribution to the rehearsal process.

I trained in Lighting Design at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and am a member of the Association of Lighting Designers. I have worked as Associate Lighting Designer with Paule Constable and Jon Clark among others and work as a visiting professional at RCSSD.

Awards

Salome - Southwark Playhouse - Offie Win - Best Lighting 2022

Evita - Parque Villa-Lobos, Sao Paulo - E Sobre Musicais Win - Best Lighting 2022

Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Jack Studio Theatre - Offie Win - Best Lighting 2018

Carmen 1808 - Union Theatre - Offie Nom - Best Lighting

Macbeth - Jack Studio Theatre - Offie Nom - Best Lighting

Ben trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and won the 2018 & 2022 Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design.

Lighting design credits include: Oliver! (Chichester Festival Theatre), Salome, Seussical, Bring it On! (Southwark Playhouse), Le Morte D’Arthur (The Scoop), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Wilton’s Music Hall), Caterpillar (Stephen Joseph Theatre), The Sorrows of Satan (Brocket Hall), Sister (Ovalhouse), Maggie & Pierre, Dolphins & Sharks, The Melting Pot (Finborough), Hamlet, Burial at Thebes, Secret Circus (RCSSD), Nora: A Doll’s House, Imagine This, Privates on Parade, Carmen 1808, Twang!, HRAitch (Union Theatre), NoMad, Edward II, Lord of the Flies (Greenwich Theatre), In Event of Moone Disaster, Caterpillar, The State We're In, EleXion, (Theatre503), People We Didn't Quite Meet, Red, Are We Stronger Than Winston (The Place), NoMad (Arcola), Cuncrete, Mrs Armitage And The Big Wave (National Tour), The White Rose, The State of Things, Side By Side By Sondheim, Macbeth (OFFIE Nom. Best Lighting Design), Edgar Allen Poe Double Bill, Frankenstein, Wolves of Willoughby Chase (OFFIE Win Best Lighting Design), Adam & Eve, Dracula (Jack Studio), Free Fall (Pleasance London), Jamaica Inn, Fanny And Faggot, The Lost Happy Endings (Tabard Theatre), Macbeth (Bussey Building), When the Dove Returns (Blue Elephant Theatre), Fluxorama (Clifftown Theatre), Citizen Puppet (New Diorama Theatre), Free Fall (Pleasance Theatre), The Greene Card (The Space), Bibs Boats Borders & Bastards (Cockpit Theatre), Lunatic, The League of Youth (Theatre N16), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (LESOCO). 

Associate Lighting: Les Miserables (West End, UK Tour, & International), Dear England (National Theatre Olivier & West End), The Motive and the Cue (West End), Anna (National Theatre Dorfman), Sondheim’s Old Friends (Sondheim Theatre), Project O (Southbank Centre), Crave (Prague Quadrennial), Miss Sarah (ZOO Venues, Edinburgh), Legally Blonde (Watford Palace). 

Assistant Lighting: Mary Poppins (West End), The Lorax (The Old Vic), Out of His Skin (UK Tour), Finding Joy (UK Tour).