Photo: Bonnie Hewson
Chris is a lighting designer based in Bristol.
He has worked extensively with Gecko over 15 years, becoming a key member of their devising creative team. Lighting design for the company includes 'Kin', 'a little space', ‘The Dreamer’, ‘Time of Your life’, ‘Institute’, & 'Missing'. He is part of the Creative Team for newly formed immersive theatre company Dream Awake, whose first show 'The Deal' opened in Shenzhen, China in the Summer of 2025
In the last couple of years he has lit theatre for the Belgrade Theatre and the Wardrobe Ensemble, dance for Arthur Pita and Holly Thomas, gig-theatre for maker Dom Coyote, opera for Opera Project, family shows for Pins and Needles and Anitomical.
Chris has toured widely as a re-lighter both nationally and internationally - working with Rambert, Sadler's Wells, Headlong, Kneehigh, Wise Children, Bristol Old Vic, Gandini, Dan Daw, and Mark Bruce, amongst many others over almost 20 years.
Chris is a visiting lecturer at Bristol Old Vic Theatre school.
Chris is particularly interested in working on devised productions, and productions where movement and music are integral part of the piece - physical theatre, dance and circus.
