Chris Davey
Lighting Designer
Biography
Previously at the Châtelet chris has designed 42nd Street
He has designed extensively for The National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company,
Recent Designs include Touching the Void (Tour and Duke of York’s Theatre, London), Witness for the
Prosecution (County Hall, London), Switzerland (Bath Theatre Royal, Ambassadors Theatre, London),
Nightfall (Bridge Theatre, London), Rhinoceros (Edinburgh International Festival), Vamos Cuba!(Sadler’s
Wells), Sweeney Todd (La Monnaie, Brussels), Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man; Lord of the Flies (Royal
Albert Hall, Sadler’s Wells, national and international tours), The Driver’s Seat (National Theatre of Scotland),
Carlos Acosta’s Classical Selection (Coliseum, Royal Albert Hall and world tour), Footloose,The Crucible,
The Shawshank Redemption, Wonderful Town, The History Boys, High Society, Dr Dolittle, Dial M for
Murder (national tours).
Opera includes Madame Butterfly (Oslo), A Little Night Music, The Magic Flute, Queen Of Spades (Opera
North), Romeo et Juliette (Opera Ireland), L’Heure Espagnole, La Voix Humaine, Hippolyte et Aricie
(Nationale Reisopera Netherlands), L’Arbore di Diana (Valencia), I Capuleti E I Montecchi (Opera North,
Melbourne, Sydney Opera House), Skellig (The Sage Gateshead), Aida (Houston), Bird of Night (Royal Opera
House London), Bluebeard (Bregenz), Jephtha (Copenhagen / English National Opera/Welsh National Opera),
The Magic Flute, Sweeney Todd (Welsh National Opera), eight seasons for Grange Park Opera, Les
Illuminations, The Turn of the Screw, The Rake’s Progress (Aldeburgh Festival), The Picture of Dorian
Gray (Monte Carlo).