
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 | |
DEATH IN VENICE | Director: Olivia Fuchs Welsh National Opera |
2023 | |
BAROQUE & CONTEMPORARY SCENES | National Opera Studio |
CINDERELLA | Director: James Williams |
INGENTING | Director: Martin Lyngbø |
SPIN | Director: Sarah Jane Schostack |
BOY OUT THE CITY | Director: Nancy Sullivan |
NUCLEAR CHILDREN | Director: Seàn Linnen |
THEY DON'T PAY? WE WON'T PAY! | Director: Ryan McBryde |
DISRUPTION | Director: Hersh Ellis |
THE DRY HOUSE | Director: Eugene O'Hare |
GIANNI SCHICCHI | Director: John Fulljames |
WINDFALL | Director: Mark Bell |
2022 | |
AN EDINBURGH CHRISTMAS CAROL | Director: Tony Cownie |
THE CROWN LIVE | Director: Owen Lewis |
THE MAKROPULOS AFFAIR | Director: Olivia Fuchs |
GODSPELL | Director: Alexandra Spencer-Jones |
LITTLE WOMEN | Director: Ken Alexander |
ARE YOU BEING MURDERED? | Director: James Callàs Ball |
YIPPIE KI YAY | Director: Hal Chambers |
SONDHEIM: BEFORE & AFTER | Director: Keith Warner |
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT | Director: Hannah Price |
OUR MAN IN HAVANA | Director: Abigail Pickard-Price |
BLOWHOLE | Director: Tom Wright |
COULD IT BE MAGIC? | Director: Owen Lewis |
2021 | |
CONSENT | Director: Julia St. John |
RAGE | Director: David Mumeni |
FIDELIO | Director: John Fulljames |
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN | Director: Derek Anderson |
THE GLAD GAME | Director: Tessa Walker |
BLOWHOLE | Director: Tom Wright |
WOLVES ARE COMING FOR YOU | Director: Kate Bannister Jack Studio Theatre |
DAWN OF MAN | Director: Drew Taylor-Wilson |
HAIR | Director: Danielle Tarento |
2020 | |
THE ANGEL ESMERALDA | Director: Martin Lloyd Evans |
VAGABOND MATTER | Director: Jackson Barnard |
COPS | Director: Andy Jordan |
2019 | |
THE WOLF, THE DUCK AND THE MOUSE | Director: Jack McNamara |
SINATRA RAW | Director: Richard Shelton |
POTTED PANTO | Director: Richard Hurst |
IL TROVATORE | Director: Francisco Negrin |
A PRAYER FOR WINGS | Director: Sean Mathias |
THE GIRL WHO FELL | Director: Hannah Price |
A PRAYER FOR WINGS | Director: Sean Mathias |
THE HAPPY TRAGEDY OF BEING WOKE | Directors: Clint Dyer & Simon McBurney |
GUARDS AT THE TAJ | Director: Kash Arshad |
THE CHILDREN | Director: Stefan Escreet |
MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD | Director: Katie Posner |
ORAL | Director: Tom Roden Strike A Light Festival |
MUSHY: Lyrically Speaking | Director: Ameet Chana Watford Palace Theatre, Rifco |
THE CROWN DUAL | Director: Owen Lewis |
THE ISLANDER (Associate) | Director: Amy Draper Southwark Playhouse |
2018 | |
CINDERELLA | Director: Omar F Okai |
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND | Director: Tilly Vosburgh |
LADY MACWATA | Director: Clint Dyer |
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ | Director: Ben Occhipinti Octagon Theatre, Bolton |
THE SELFISH GIANT | Director: Adam Fuller |
FOR KING AND COUNTRY | Director: Paul Tomlinson |
DOWN AND OUT | Director: Hannah Price |
ISABEAU | Director: Martin Lloyd-Evans |
DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES | Director: Martin Lloyd-Evans |
THERE OR HERE | Director: Vik Sivalingham |
2017 | |
PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK | Director: Jonny Kelly |
MOTHER COURAGE | Director: Hannah Chissick |
EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION | Director: Jesse Jones, Helena Middleton Wardrobe Ensemble, UK Tour |
BOOM | Director: Katherine Nesbitt |
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 |
INCIDENT AT VICHY | Director: Phil Wilmott |
JEKYLL & HYDE | Director: Danny Wainwright |
DRACULA | Director: Danny Wainwright |
CASTE | Director: Charlotte Peters |
RUN THE BEAST DOWN (Co-Lighting) | Director: Hannah Price |
DUBAILAND | Director: Georgie Straight |
CORNWALL VS CHINA | Director: Danny Wainwright |
2016 | |
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Associate) | Director: Abigail Anderson |
SCAPEGOAT | Director: Abigail Pickard Price |
ODD SHAPED BALLS | Director: Andrew Twyman |
POPPIES : A NEW MUSICAL | Director: Alanna Stone |
BABY | Rhiannon Brace Dance Footprint Dance Festival/Michaelis Theatre |
THE SOCIAL NOTWORK | Director: Adam Wollerton |
DON'T SMOKE IN BED | Director: Andrew Twyman Plane Paper Theatre Company/Finborough Theatre |
2015 | |
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN | Director: Jack Bowman |
INTIMISSIMI ON ICE 2015 (Assistant) | Director: Francisco Negrin |
PRINCESS - A ROCK BALLET | Director: Stuart Saint |
WEST SIDE STORY | Director: Andrew Panton |
2014 | |
THE COUNTRY WIFE | Director: James Robert Carson |
MANNING | Director: Mikey Collins |
FESTEN | Director: Maggie Kinloch & John Kazeck |
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE | Director: Ali De Souza |