Ben Ormerod
Lighting Designer
Lighting designs include:
For Edward Hall’s Propeller Company HENRY V, THE WINTER’S TALE, RICHARD III, COMEDY OF ERRORS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Watermill/ UK and International tour), TAMING OF THE SHREW, TWELFTH NIGHT (Watermill/ UK tour/ Old Vic), A WINTER’S TALE, ROSE RAGE and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Watermill/ USA/ UK tours). Other theatre includes FIT AND PROPER PEOPLE (Soho Theatre); THE HERESY OF LOVE (RSC); LOYALTY (Hampstead); KING LEAR (Glasgow Citz); THE PHOENIX OF MADRID, IPHIGENIA and THE SURPRISE OF LOVE (Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath); THE CRUCIBLE (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); ONASSIS (Derby Plahouse); THE SANCTUARY LAMP (B*spoke Theatre, Arcola/Cork/Dublin); BALLET SHOES (London Children’s Ballet); ZORRO The Musical (Tokyo/Holland/West End/Paris/UK tour); LA TRAVIATA (Danish National Opera); DIMETOS (Donmar Warehouse); CARMEN (Pimlico Opera at HMP Wandsworth); TREASURE ISLAND (Rose Kingston); TWO MEN OF FLORENCE (Huntingdon Theatre Co. Boston); FRAME OF VIEW (Cedar Lake Ballet, New York); THE LAST DAYS OF THE RELUCTANT TYRANT, BIG HOUSE, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Abbey Theatre); THE LEENANE TRILOGY, LEAVES (Druid Theatre/ Royal Court/ New York); MACBETH and all four plays in the Spanish Golden Age season (RSC); CINDERELLA (Gothenburg); JEANNE D’ARC au BÛCHER (Academia Santa Cecilia, Rome); FALSTAFF (Scottish Opera); For Bath Theatre Royal LEGAL FICTIONS (and Savoy) and THE RIVALS (and UK tour); LAST EASTER (Birmingham Rep); AN IDEAL HUSBAND (Theatr Clwyd); THE BEST OF FRIENDS (Hampstead/UK tour); MACBETH, SEE HOW THEY RUN and THE CONSTANT WIFE (West End); LA TRAVIATA (ENO); SWEENEY TODD (Royal Festival Hall, Semi-staged); TENDERHOOKS (Skanes Dansteater); SEE BLUE THROUGH (Introdans & Phoenix Dance); OUTSIGHT (Ballet Gulbenkian, Lisbon); Ben also directed MEPHISTO and FOUR TALES FROM THE DECALOGUE for E15 Drama School.