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Lee Curran

awards and nominations

Nominated for a Knight of Illumination Award 2017 for Jesus Christ Superstar at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park.

Nominated for a Olivier Award 2017 for Jesus Christ Superstar at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. 

Nominated for Knight of Illumination Award 2016 for Orphée et Eurydice at the Royal Opera House.

Nominated for Olivier Award 2013 for Best Lighting Designer for Constellations at the Royal Court and Duke of York’s Theatre.

Nominated for WhatsOnStage Award 2013 for Best Lighting Designer for Constellations at the Royal Court and Duke of York’s Theatre.

Productions

2024

CYCLES

Choreo: Michael 'Mikey J' Asante
Boy Blue

TOSCA

Director: Edward Dick
Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne & Sydney Opera House

PLAYER KINGS

Director: Robert Icke
Wimbledon Theatre, Manchester Opera House, Noël Coward Theatre, UK Tour

KING LEAR

Director: Yaël Farber
Almeida Theatre

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Director: Tim Sheader
International Tour

2023

THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA

Director: Rebecca Frecknall
National Theatre

THE LIMIT

Director: Ed Madden
Royal Opera House

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Director: Tim Sheader
UK Tour

NEXT TO NORMAL

Director: Michael Longhurst
Donmar Warehouse

ROMEO AND JULIET

Director: Rebecca Frecknall
Almeida Theatre

 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

Director: Rebecca Frecknall
Phoenix Theatre

AIDA

Director: Annabel Arden
Royal Danish Theatre

FIDELIO

Director: John Fulljames
Nederlandse Reisoper

JULIUS CAESAR

Director: Atri Banerjee
Royal Shakespeare Company

2022

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

Director: Rebecca Frecknall
Almeida Theatre 

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Director: Tim Sheader
US Tour

ENOWATE

Dickson Mbi
Sadler's Wells

THE GLASS MENAGERIE 

Director: Atri Banerjee
Manchester Royal Exchange

BRITANNICUS

Director: Atri Banerjee
Lyric Hammersmith

THE WIDER EARTH

Director: David Morton
Australian Tour/Broadcast

HENRY V

Director: Max Webster
Donmar Warehouse

DON QUIXOTE

Director: Nikolaj Hübbe
Royal Danish Theatre

2021

FIDELIO (REVIVAL)

Director: John Fulljames
Polish National Opera 

WE ARE AS GODS

Choreo: James Cousins
Battersea Arts Centre

THE SONG PROJECT

Royal Court Theatre

CONSTELLATIONS

Director: Michael Longhurst
Vaudeville Theatre, West End 

THE TWO CHARACTER PLAY

Director: Sam Yates
Hampstead Theatre

HARM

Director: Atri Banerjee
Bush Theatre

IL COMBATTIMENTO

Shobana Jeysaingh Dance

ENOWATE

Dickson Mbi
Dance East & Barbican Centre

2020

UPRISING

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Royal Danish Theatre

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR: THE CONCERT

Director: Tim Sheader
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

THE BEAUTY PARADE
 

Director: Kaite O’Reilly
Wales Millennium Centre

WEST SIDE STORY Director: Sarah Frankcom
Manchester Royal Exchange
 
RARE EARTH METTLE

Director: Hamish Pirie
Royal Court

FIDELIO

Director: John Fulljames
Royal Danish Theatre

NORA: A DOLL'S HOUSE
 
Director: Elizabeth Freestone
Young Vic Theatre
 
THE WELKIN

Director: James Macdonald
National Theatre

POLITICAL MOTHER UNPLUGGED

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Hofesh Shechter Company Tour

CLOWNS

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Hofesh Shechter Company Tour

2019

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Director: Tim Sheader
US Tour

THE SON Director: Michael Longhurst
Duke Of Yorks Theatre
 
ENOWATE
 
Director: Dickson Mbi
The Lowry
 
BLACK MEN WALKING
 
Director: Tim Sheader
UK Tour: Dawn Walton
 
SPIRAL PASS/OPUS 131

Choreographer: Russell Maliphant
Opéra National de Lyon

PETER PAN

Director: Liam Steel
Birmingham Repertory Theatre

PHAEDRA

Director: Noa Naamat
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House

PLENTY

Director: Kate Hewitt
Chichester Festival Theatre

BURGERZ

Director: Sam Curtis Lindsay
Revival and Tour

MR GUM AND THE DANCING BEAR

Director: Amy Hodge
National Theatre

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Director: Tim Sheader
Barbican
 
NORA: A DOLL'S HOUSE

Director: Elizabeth Freestone
Glasgow Citizens Theatre

WEST SIDE STORY

Director: Sarah Frankcom
Manchester Royal Exchange

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO

Director: Tom Scutt
Donmar Warehouse 

IN YOUR ROOMS

Choreographer: Hofesh Schecter Rambert

WITHIN HER EYES

Choreographer: James Cousins
UK Tour

2018

MIRABEL

Director: Rachel McCutcheon
Ovalhouse

BURGERZ
(With Lauren Woodhead)

Director: Sam Curtis Lindsay
Hackney Showroom

RAMBERT 2:NEW BENOIT-SWAN POUFFER/E2 7SD

Choreographer: Benoit-Swan Pouffer
Rambert/ Rafael Bonachela

THE WIDER EARTH

Director: David Morton
Natural History Museum

DANCE NATION

Director: Bijan Sheibani
Almeida Theatre

ORPHEE ET EURIDICE

Director: John Fulljames
La Scala, Italy

TOSCA

Director: Edward Dick
Opera North

CLOWNS

Choreographer: Hofesh Schecter Tour

JUBILEE 

Director: Chris Goode
Lyric Hammersmith

NABUCCO

Director: John Fulljames
Opéra et Orchestre National de Montpellier

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

Director: Chelsea Walker
Nuffield Theatre & UK Tour 

WOYZECK

Director: Roxana Silbert
Birmingham Repertory Theatre

AS YOU LIKE IT

Director: Max Webster
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

SUMMER AND SMOKE

Director: Rebecca Frecknall
Almeida Theatre/Duke of York's Theatre

BLACK MEN WALKING

Director: Dawn Walton
Royal Exchange Theatre, UK Tour

GUNDOG

Director: Vicky Featherstone
Royal Court

2017

JUBILEE
 
Director: Chris Goode
Royal Exchange Theatre
 

LADY FROM THE SEA
 

Director: Kwame Kwei-Armah
Donmar Warehouse

UNTOUCHABLE

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Royal Opera House

THE WEIR Director: Adele Thomas
English Touring Theatre
 
ROAD Director: John Tiffany
Royal Court
 
KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT Artist: Christopher Brett Bailey
UK Tour
 
COVER MY TRACKS Director: Max Webster
Old Vic
 
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Director: Timothy Sheader
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Director: Timothy Sheader
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park

DEPART

Director: Yaron Lifschitz
Lift Festival & UK Tour

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Director: Timothy Sheader
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
NUCLEAR WAR

Director: Imogen Knight
Royal Court

LOVE

Director: Debbie Tucker Green 
Royal CourtL

ROSALIND

Director: James Cousins Company
The Place

A PROFOUNDLY AFFECTIONATE, PASSIOANTE DEVOTION TO SOMEONE (-NOUN)

Director: Debbie Tucker Green
Royal Court

THE WINTERS TALE

Director: Max Webster
Lyceum, Edinburgh

FANTASTIC MR FOX

Director: Maria Aberg
Lyric Hammersmith

BLAK/WHYTE/GRAY

Choreography: Kenrick Sandy & Michael Asante
Boy Blue Entertainment

 

2016

 
FANTASTIC MR FOX

Director: Maria Aberg
Nuffield Theatre

 

KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT

Artist: Christopher Brett Bailey
UK Tour

 

IMOGEN

Director: Mathew Dunster
Shakespeare’s Globe

 

DOCTOR FAUSTUS

Director: Maria Aberg
Barbican Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company

 
THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN

Director: Blanche McIntyre
Swan, Royal Shakespeare Company

 
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Director: Timothy Sheader
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park

 
BOYS WILL BE BOYS

Director: Amy Hodge
Bush Theatre

 
DEPART Director: Yaron Lifschitz
LIFT
 

THE SPOILS

Director: Scott Elliot
ATG, Trafalgar Studios

 

TOMORROW

Choreographer: Lucy Guerin
Rambert Dance Company

 

CLOWNS

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Nederlands Dans Theater

 
X

Director: Vicky Featherstone
Royal Court Theatre

 

DOCTOR FAUSTUS

Director: Maria Aberg
Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre & Barbican

 

 

2015

LINDA

Director: Michael Longhurst
The Royal Court Theatre

THE ORESTEIA

Director: Blanche McIntyre
Home Manchester

WIDE AWAKENING

Joss Arnott Dance
On Tour

FRIEZE ARTIST AWARD

Lighting Designer for Rachel Rose
Frieze Artist Award Winning Commission

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

Director: Zoe Seaton
Big Telly Theatre Company Tour

ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE

Dir/Chor: John Fulljames/Hofesh Shechter
Royal Opera House

SPLENDOUR

Director: Robert Hastie
Donmar Warehouse

A NUMBER

Director: Michael Longhurst
Young Vic

CONSTELLATIONS 

Director: Michael Longhusrt
UK Tour

BASTARD AMBER

Choreographer: Liz Roche
Liz Roche Company/Dublin Dance Festival

LOVE’S SACRIFICE

Director: Matthew Dunster
Royal Shakespeare Company

UNTOUCHABLE

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House

FRAMES

Chor: Alexander Whitely
Rambert

THE RISE AND SHINE OF COMRADE FIASCO

Director: Elayce Ismail
Gate Theatre

CONSTELLATIONS

Director: Michael Longhurst
Manhattan Theatre Club, New York

TRIBUTE ACTS Director: Cheryl Gallacher & Tess Seddon
THEATRESTATE/UK Tour

 

2014

NABUCCO

Director: John Fulljames
Opera National de Lorraine

OTTONE

Director: James Conway
English Touring Opera

LIFE ON THE MOON

Director: Cal McCrystal
English Touring Opera

THE GRIT IN THE OYSTER

Director: Alexander Whitley
The Point

HAMLET

Director: Sarah Frankcom
Royal Exchange Manchester

REGENERATION

Director: Simon Godwin
Royal & Derngate/UK Tour

MAMETZ

Director: Matthew Dunster
National Theatre of Wales

TURFED

Director: Renato Rocha
LIFT Festival

THE MEASURES TAKEN/ ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR

Choreographer: Alexander Whitley
Royal Opera House, Linbury

ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM

Director: Polly Findlay
Royal Shakespeare Company

PUFFBALL

Director: Mark Storer
Roundhouse

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Director: Maria Aberg
Royal Exchange Manchester

A NUMBER

Director: Michael Longhurst
Nuffield Theatre

INTERLOPER

Choreographer: Liz Roche
Ireland Tour

OUR BIG LAND

Director: Amy Hodge
Romany Theatre Company

BLINDSIDED

Director: Sarah Frankcom
Royal Exchange Manchester

 

2013

PROTEST SONG

Director: Polly Findlay
National Theatre Shed

THE JUNGLE BOOK

Director: Liam Steel
West Yorkshire Playhouse

SUN

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Premiere at Melbourne Festival

THE EMPTY QUARTER

Director: Anna Ledwich
Hampstead Studio

BLAM!

Director: Kristján Ingimarsson & Simon K. Boberg
Edinburgh/Sadlers Wells
Glynis Henderson Production/Neander Teater

THE MEASURES TAKEN

Choreographer/Director: Alexander Whitley
Sadler’s Wells

DANCING AT LUGHNASA

Director: Richard Beecham
Royal & Derngate, Northampton

METH & REVERIE

Ivan Blackstock
Sadler’s Wells

CHAPEL STREET

Director: Bryony Shanahan
Scrawl/Richard Jordan Prods/UK Tour

DESOLATE HEAVEN

Director: Paul Robinson

Theatre 503

BORDERLANDS (short)

Dora Frankel Dance
Dance City, Newcastle

 

previous theatre

CONSTELLATIONS

Director: Michael Longhurst
Duke of York’s/Royal Court

LYRIKAL FEARTA REDUX

Choreographer: Jonzi D Dir: Dawn Walton
Sadler’s Wells

THE SACRED FLAME

Director: Matthew Dunster
ETT/Rose Theatre Kingston

THE ROVER

Director: Amy Hodge
Hampton Court Palace

66 MINUTES IN DAMASCUS

Director: Lucien Boujeily
LIFT/Shoreditch Town Hall

CLYTEMNESTRA

Director: Amy Hodge
Hampton Court Palace

THE FAT GIRL GETS A HAIRCUT

Director: Mark Storor
Roundhouse

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Director: Nikolai Foster
Watford Palace/ETT

AN EVENING WITH NICK CAVE

Director: Iain Forsythe & Jane Pollard
Palace Theatre London

UNBROKEN

Director: Natalie Abrahami
The Gate

 

previous dance

REVOLVER

Choreographer: Darren Ellis
The Place/Darren Ellis Dance

THERE WE HAVE BEEN /EVERYTHING AND NOTHING

Choreographer: James Cousins
Sadler’s Wells/ James Cousins Dance
TANK

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
U Dance Ensemble/Youth Dance England/Queen Elizabeth Hall

THE PERFORMANCE

Choreographer: John Ross and Siobhan Maguire-Swartz
Dance United

OMI

Choreographer: Tony Adigun
Breakin’ Convention, Sadler’s Wells

THE IMPENDING STORM

Choreographer: Mark Storer
International Dance Festival Birmingham

MOMENTUM

Choreographer: Darren Ellis
Darren Ellis Dance

THE SELFISH GIANT

Choreographer: Steve Stickley Chor: Darren Ellis
Springs Dance Company/Epsom Playhouse

POLITICAL MOTHER (Choreographer’s Cut)

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Hofesh Shechter Company

POLITICAL MOTHER

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Hofesh Shechter Company

FROM THE WAIST UP

Choreographer: Darren Ellis
Darren Ellis Dance

TOUCH WOOD

The Place, London

THE ART OF NOT LOOKING BACK

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Hofesh Shechter Company, Brighton Dome

STICKS AND BONES

Choreographer: Darren Ellis
Darren Ellis Dance

UPRISING/IN YOUR ROOMS (Choreographer’s Cut)

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Hofest Shechter Company, Roundhouse

THE PERFECT HUMAN

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Hofesh Shechter Company, The Point, Eastleigh

SOLO

Choreographer: Alex Whitley
Rambert Dance Company/ Queen Elizabeth Hall.

IN YOUR ROOMS

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Hofesh Shechter Company, Developed at The Place/Queen Elizabeth Hall/Sadler’s Wells

AEQUUS/DIAGOLO

Choreographer: Jean Abreu
New Wolsey Theatre

VOICES + SET BOUNDARIES

Choreographer: Rafael Bonachela
Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham

UPRISING

Choreographer: Hofesh Shechter
Hofesh Shechter Company

DEVI

Choreographer: Mavin Khoo
Linbury Studio Theatre, ROH

CURIOUS CONSCIENCE

Choreographer: Rafael Bonachela
Rambert Dance Company/The Lowry Salford

HAVE WE MET SOMEWHERE BEFORE

Choreographer: Mark Bruce/Lea Anderson/Rafael Bonachela
PROBE/Hextable Dance 2005

SOLEDAD

Choreographer: Rafael Bonachela
PROBE/Rep Bonachela Dance Company 2007/ Rep Sydney Dance Company 2010

LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME

Choreographer: Rafael Bonachela
Danceworks Rotterdam

PSYCHE

Sankalpam, Artsdepot, London

21 TALES

Fionnbarr Factory, The Lighthouse Poole

E2 7SD

Choreographer: Rafael Bonachela
The Place Theatre, London

HYPNOS

Choreographer: Tom Sapsford
ICA, London

SINGING

Choreographer: Jonathan Burrows

JUICE

Choreographer: Jeremy James

 

opera

TOUJOURS ET PRES DE MOI

Choreographer: Patrick Eakin-Young
Opera Erratica, The Print Room

LIEBESLIED/MY SUICIDES

Choreographers: Duttmann/Clark/Sapsford
Rut Blees Luxembourg/ICA London

 

miscellaneous

DIG LAZARUS DIG!

Iain Forsythe and Jane Pollard
Music Video filmed at Pinewood Studios.

MAIYET Fashion Event

Laura Holmes Prods
The Zabludowicz Collection