Hugh Vanstone
Hugh Vanstone is a leading British lighting designer whose freelance career began in 1991. He won the 1999,[1] 2001[2] and 2004[3] Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design and was nominated for a Tony Award in 2005, 2009, 2012, and won a Tony Award in 2013. He has designed lighting for plays, musicals and operas in London, New York and around the world as well as concerts, industrial theatre and architectural lighting projects.
Career
Hugh Vanstone trained at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter.
He has designed lighting for numerous London productions, including Desperately Seeking Susan; Howard Katz (Royal National Theatre) and The Caretaker (Comedy Theatre), both directed by Patrick Marber; Mouth To Mouth, directed by Ian Rickson (Royal Court and Albery Theatres); The Graduate, directed by Terry Johnson (Gielgud Theatre); Dr Dolittle (Apollo, Hammersmith) and Antony and Cleopatra (Royal Shakespeare Company), both directed by Steven Pimlott; Orpheus Descending (Donmar Warehouse) and The Lady In the Van (Queen’s Theatre), both directed by Nicholas Hytner; The Cherry Orchard directed by Trevor Nunn (Royal National Theatre); Juno and the Paycock directed by John Crowley (Donmar Warehouse); Art (Wyndham’s and Whitehall Theatres), The Unexpected Man (RSC, Duchess Theatre) and The Winter’s Tale (RSC at The Roundhouse) all directed by Matthew Warchus; Blast! (Apollo, Hammersmith); and The Blue Room, directed by Sam Mendes (Donmar Warehouse). He also designed Dance of the Vampires, directed by Roman Polanski in Vienna (1997 and 2009) and the European tour starting in Berlin in 2006.
His opera productions have included Dialogues des Carmélites (English National Opera), Carmen (Opera North) both directed by Phyllida Lloyd; and The Bartered Bride, directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff (Glyndebourne).
He has received three Olivier Awards for his work in London, including for Pacific Overtures (Donmar Warehouse) in 2004, for The Cherry Orchard and The Graduate in 2001, and for The Unexpected Man and The Blue Room in 1999.
His New York credits include:
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1993 on Broadway)
- Art (1998 on Broadway, Royale Theater)
- The Blue Room (1998 on Broadway, Cort Theater)
- Closer (1999 on Broadway, Music Box Theatre)
- Follies (2001 revival on Broadway at the Belasco Theater)
- Blast! (2001 on Broadway)
- The Unexpected Man (Promenade Theater)
- The Graduate (2002 on Broadway)
- Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night and Hamlet (BAM)
- Life (x) 3 (2003 on Broadway, Circle in the Square)
- Bombay Dreams (2004 on Broadway)
- Spamalot (2005 on Broadway, for which his lighting was nominated for a Tony Award)[4]
- Shrek the Musical (2008 on Broadway)
- A Steady Rain (2009 on Broadway)
- Ghost the Musical (2012 on Broadway, for which his lighting was nominated for a Tony Award)
- Matilda the Musical (2013 on Broadway, for which his lighting has won a Tony Award)
He has also designed lighting for plays in Los Angeles, Australia and elsewhere.
Vanstone is scheduled to design lighting for several 2008 productions including Yasmina Reza's play, The God of Carnage and Peter Gill's Small Change (London); Boeing Boeing (revivals on Broadway and in Australia); and "Shrek the Musical" (Broadway).
Personal life
Hugh Vanstone was born in Exeter. He lives in London with his partner George Stiles.
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