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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 has also worked for many years at Bristol's Tobcco Factory Theatres - lighting 6 shows - most recently 'Oliver Twist' and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'. He has recently lit gig-theatre for maker Dom Coyote, opera for Opera Project, family shows for Pins and Needles and Anitomical, and designs for dance companies New Movement Collective, Renaud Wiser Dance, Fertile Ground, Sophie Nuzel, and TrashDollys.
Chris has toured widely as a re-lighter and production manager both nationally and internationally - working with Rambert, Sadler's Wells, Headlong, Kneehigh, Wise Children, Bristol Old Vic, Protein, Gandini, and Mark Bruce, amongst many others over almost 20 years.
Chris is a visiting lecturer at Bristol Old Vic Theatre school, where he works with the students on their own lighting designs, supervises technical workshops and fit-ups, and provides lighting design for the school's own productions.
Chris is particularly interested in working on devised productions, and productions where movement is an integral part of the piece - physical theatre, dance and circus.