Guy Hoare

Lighting Design

Guy designs lighting for dance, theatre and opera.

He designed the lighting for Arthur Pita’s The Metamorphosis and Mark Bruce’s Dracula which won the South Bank Award for Dance in 2012 and 2014 respectively. Other designs for dance include pieces for Rafael Bonachela, Mayuri Boonham, Christopher Bruce, Theo Clinkard, James Cousins, Dan Daw, Laila Diallo, Robin Dingemans, Shobana Jeyasingh, Henri Oguike, Seeta Patel, Ben Wright, and Akram Khan Company.

Theatre credits include Strange Interlude (National Theatre); Clarence Darrow (Old Vic), A Doll’s House (Young Vic, West End and New York); In Basildon (Royal Court); Roots (Donmar Warehouse); Waste (Almeida); The Father (Theatre Royal Bath); Faith Healer (Bristol Old Vic); Othello (Northern Broadsides); Going Dark (Sound & Fury).

Opera credits include Jakob Lenz for English National Opera; The Firework Maker’s Daughter for The Opera Group and eight seasons for English Touring Opera, including the Olivier award-winning season of King Priam and Paul Bunyan in 2014.

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