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Robbie Butler

Originally from Ireland and based in the UK, Robbie is one of only a handful of people to have been awarded a lifetime membership of the Association for Lighting and Production Design.

He was a leading figure in the 2018 #SaveStageLighting campaign: an international drive which sought to safeguard the accessibility to the lighting instruments and equipment that are most commonly used in theatres across Europe from proposed changes to EU law.

Having trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he has won an Off West End award for Best Lighting Design and was the winner of the 2015 ETC Award.

Productions

2024

PUNCH

Director: Adam Penford
Nottingham Playhouse

DEATH IN VENICE Director: Olivia Fuchs
Welsh National Opera
 

2023

BAROQUE & CONTEMPORARY SCENES National Opera Studio 

CINDERELLA

Director: James Williams
Watford Palace Theatre

INGENTING
(As Associate Lighting Designer)

Director: Martin Lyngbø
Lighting Designer: Lee Curran
Den Norske Opera & Ballet

SPIN

Director: Sarah Jane Schostack
The Hope Theatre & Edinburgh Festival

BOY OUT THE CITY

Director: Nancy Sullivan
Edinburgh, Underbelly

NUCLEAR CHILDREN

Director: Seàn Linnen
Ladbroke Hall, Roundhouse & Edinburgh Festival

THEY DON'T PAY? WE WON'T PAY!

Director: Ryan McBryde
Mercury Theatre

DISRUPTION

Director: Hersh Ellis
Park Theatre

THE DRY HOUSE

Director: Eugene O'Hare
Marylebone Theatre

GIANNI SCHICCHI
(As Co-Lighting Designer)

Director: John Fulljames
Greek National Opera

WINDFALL

Director: Mark Bell
Southwark Playhouse

2022

AN EDINBURGH CHRISTMAS CAROL
(As Remount Lighting Designer)

Director: Tony Cownie
Edinburgh Lyceum

THE CROWN LIVE

Director: Owen Lewis
US Tour

THE MAKROPULOS AFFAIR

Director: Olivia Fuchs
Welsh National Opera

GODSPELL

Director: Alexandra Spencer-Jones
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

LITTLE WOMEN

Director: Ken Alexander
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

ARE YOU BEING MURDERED?

Director: James Callàs Ball
Seabright Productions

YIPPIE KI YAY

Director: Hal Chambers 
Seabright Productions & UK Tour

SONDHEIM: BEFORE & AFTER

Director: Keith Warner
National Opera Studio

THE GUNPOWDER PLOT

Director: Hannah Price
Tower Hill Vaults 

OUR MAN IN HAVANA

Director: Abigail Pickard-Price
Watermill Theatre

BLOWHOLE

Director: Tom Wright
Soho Theatre

COULD IT BE MAGIC?

Director: Owen Lewis
Wiltons Music Hall

2021

CONSENT

Director: Julia St. John
Central St Martins

RAGE

Director: David Mumeni
Central Saint Martins

FIDELIO
(As Associate Lighting Designer)

Director: John Fulljames
Polish National Opera 

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Director: Derek Anderson
English Theatre Frankfurt

THE GLAD GAME

Director: Tessa Walker
Nottingham Playhouse

BLOWHOLE

Director: Tom Wright
Pleasance Theatre

WOLVES ARE COMING FOR YOU
(Offie winner)

Director: Kate Bannister
Jack Studio Theatre

DAWN OF MAN

Director: Drew Taylor-Wilson
Sanctuary Queer Arts

HAIR

Director: Danielle Tarento
Associated Studios

2020

THE ANGEL ESMERALDA

Director: Martin Lloyd Evans
Silk Street Theatre, Guildhall School of Music & Drama 

VAGABOND MATTER

Director: Jackson Barnard
UK Tour

COPS

Director: Andy Jordan
Southwark Playhouse 

2019

THE WOLF, THE DUCK AND THE MOUSE

Director: Jack McNamara
Unicorn Theatre & UK Tour

SINATRA RAW

Director: Richard Shelton
Wiltons Music Hall

POTTED PANTO
 

Director: Richard Hurst
Southwark Playhouse

IL TROVATORE
(As Associate)

Director: Francisco Negrin
Royal Danish Opera and Teatro Real, Madrid

A PRAYER FOR WINGS

Director: Sean Mathias
The Kings Head

THE GIRL WHO FELL

Director: Hannah Price
Trafalgar Studios 2

A PRAYER FOR WINGS

Director: Sean Mathias
Volcano Theatre Swansea

THE HAPPY TRAGEDY OF BEING WOKE

Directors: Clint Dyer & Simon McBurney
Edinburgh International Festival

GUARDS AT THE TAJ

Director: Kash Arshad
Theatre By The Lake, Keswick

THE CHILDREN

Director: Stefan Escreet
Theatre By The Lake, Keswick

MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD

Director: Katie Posner
Theatre By The Lake, Keswick

ORAL Director: Tom Roden
Strike A Light Festival
 
MUSHY: Lyrically Speaking Director: Ameet Chana
Watford Palace Theatre, Rifco
 
THE CROWN DUAL

Director: Owen Lewis
King's Head Theatre & Edinburgh Festival Fringe

THE ISLANDER
(Associate)
Director: Amy Draper
Southwark Playhouse
 

2018

CINDERELLA

Director: Omar F Okai
MTA, Tower Theatre

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND

Director: Tilly Vosburgh
MTA, Tower Theatre

LADY MACWATA

Director: Clint Dyer
Cockpit Theatre

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ

Director: Ben Occhipinti
Octagon Theatre, Bolton

THE SELFISH GIANT

Director: Adam Fuller
UK Tour

FOR KING AND COUNTRY

Director: Paul Tomlinson
Southwark Playhouse

DOWN AND OUT

Director: Hannah Price
Chancellor's Hall, Senate House

ISABEAU

Director: Martin Lloyd-Evans
Opera Holland Park

DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES

Director: Martin Lloyd-Evans
Guildhall School of Music and Drama

THERE OR HERE

Director: Vik Sivalingham
Park Theatre

2017

PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK

Director: Jonny Kelly
Finborough Theatre

MOTHER  COURAGE

Director: Hannah Chissick
Southwark Playhouse

EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION
(Touring Relighter)

Director: Jesse Jones, Helena Middleton
Wardrobe Ensemble, UK Tour
BOOM

Director: Katherine Nesbitt
Theatre 503

THE PROVOKED WIFE
 
Director: Hannah Boland Moore
The Hope Theatre
WINDOWS Director: Geoffrey Beevers
Project One/Finborough Theatre
 
JUST TO GET MARRIED Director: Melissa Dunne
Papercut/Finborough Theatre
 
1984: LIVE

Director: Hannah Price
Libby Brodie Productions

INCIDENT AT VICHY

Director: Phil Wilmott
Finborough Theatre

JEKYLL & HYDE

Director: Danny Wainwright
Pleasance Theatre

DRACULA

Director: Danny Wainwright
The Warren, Brighton Fringe Festival

CASTE

Director: Charlotte Peters
Project One Theatre/Finborough Theatre

RUN THE BEAST DOWN
(Co-Lighting)

Director: Hannah Price
Marlowe Theatre & Finborough Theatre

DUBAILAND

Director: Georgie Straight
Flux Theatre Company/Finborough Theatre

CORNWALL VS CHINA

Director: Danny Wainwright
Vaults Festival

 

2016

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
(Associate)

Director: Abigail Anderson
Jermyn Street Theatre

SCAPEGOAT

Director: Abigail Pickard Price
St. Stephen's Church

ODD SHAPED BALLS

Director: Andrew Twyman
Plane Paper Theatre Company/Old Red Lion

POPPIES : A NEW MUSICAL

Director: Alanna Stone
Music Box Theatre/The Space

BABY Rhiannon Brace Dance
Footprint Dance Festival/Michaelis Theatre
THE SOCIAL NOTWORK

Director: Adam Wollerton
Lion and Unicorn Theatre

DON'T SMOKE IN BED Director: Andrew Twyman
Plane Paper Theatre Company/Finborough Theatre

 

2015

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

Director: Jack Bowman
LOST Theatre

INTIMISSIMI ON ICE 2015
(Assistant)

Director: Francisco Negrin
Verona Arena

PRINCESS - A ROCK BALLET

Director: Stuart Saint
LOST Theatre

WEST SIDE STORY

Director: Andrew Panton
New Athenaeum Theatre, RCS

 

2014

THE COUNTRY WIFE

Director: James Robert Carson
Chandler Studio, RCS

MANNING

Director: Mikey Collins
Chandler Studio, RCS

FESTEN

Director: Maggie Kinloch & John Kazeck
Tron Theatre & Cockpit Theatre

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

Director: Ali De Souza
Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival, Taiwan