Chuma Emembolu

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Biography

An experienced freelance Lighting Designer, Chuma has enjoyed a great deal of professional success for his innovative and electrifying work in theatre both round the UK

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Specialisms

Theatre:
  • International
  • West End
  • Commercial Tour
  • Regional (Main House)
  • Regional (Studio)
  • Small Scale Touring
  • Fringe / Pub Theatre
  • Education Establishment
  • Touring relights
  • Projection / Video Design
Musical:
  • International
  • West End
  • Commercial Tour
  • Regional (Main House)
  • Regional (Studio)
  • Small Scale / Fringe
  • Pantomime
  • Education Establishment
  • Touring relights
  • Projection / Video Design
Opera:
  • International
  • Large scale
  • Small scale
  • Education Establishment
  • Projection / Video Design
Dance:
  • International
  • UK National Company
  • Large Scale
  • Medium Scale
  • Education Establishment
  • Projection / Video Design
Concert:
Corporate:
  • Conferences
  • Exhibition Stands
  • Fashion Shows
  • Product Launches
  • Award Ceremonies
  • Open Air Events
  • Projection / Video / Content Design
Architectural:
Non-professional:
Education:
  • Lectures
  • Workshops
  • Training

Previous productions

Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
The great Pravitaion Theatre Theatre 503, London
Theatre 503 		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Chuma Emembolu
Director: Kalungi Ssebandeke
Set designer: Ruth Badila
Icarus Theatre Tobacco Factory Theatres
Bristol School of Acting 		Lighting Designer Director: Nancy Medina
Sir John In Love Opera Opera Holland Park
British Youth Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Harry Fehr
Set designer: Nate Gibson
The Throne Theatre Charing Cross Theatre
Throne Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Biggs
Set designer: Gregor Donnelly
Bold Girls Theatre Gielgud Theatre, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) 		Lighting Designer Director: Ola Ince
Set designer: Adam Nee
The Dwarfs Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Flying Colours Presents 		Lighting Designer Director: Harry Burton
Set designer: Isabella Van Braeckel
The Aspern Papers Opera Royal Academy of Music, Susie Sainsbury Theatre
Pegasus Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Simone Ibbett-Brown
Man of Mode Theatre The Mack
Mountview Presents 		Lighting Designer Director: Barney McElholm & Bethany West
Set designer: Tina Torbey
The Night Woman Theatre The Other Palace, London
Emma Blackman Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Martina Laird
Here's What She Said To Me Theatre Belgrade 2 - Coventry
Utopia Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Mojisola Elufowoju
Set designer: Emma Williams
For Black Boy Who Considered Suicide When the Hue Got to Heavy Theatre New Diarama Theatre, London
New Diorama Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu
Set designer: Anna Reid
LOVE, GENIUS AND A WALK Theatre Theatro Technis, Camden
Bringing Up The House 		Lighting Designer Director: Leah Townley
Set designer: CONSTANCE VILLEMOT
POISON, PASSION AND PURIFICATION Opera Royal Academy of Music, Susie Sainsbury Theatre
Pegasus Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Harry Fehr
Set designer: Flavio Graff
L'ENFANT PRODIGUE Opera Royal Academy of Music, Susie Sainsbury Theatre
Pegasus Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Harry Fehr
Set designer: Flavio Graff
Invisibe Me Theatre New Wimbledon Studio Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Su Gilroy
Maggie and Ted Theatre The Garrick Theatre London
Honourable Man Productions 		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jack Weir
Director: Michael Kingsbury
ILLUSIONS OF LIBERTY Theatre Kings Head Theatre, Angel
It Taste Like Home Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Raquel Grela
Invisible Me Theatre Conway Hall
Lighting Designer Director: Nicky Allpress
THE GOOD DAD Theatre The Old Red Lion Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Shrubsall
We Will Rock You Musical ARK BORLINGBROKE
ARK BORLINGBROKE Production 		Lighting Designer
The Maids Theatre Hen and Chickens Theatre
Theatre East N Bull 		Lighting Designer Director: Boris Celiloglu
Great Expectations Theatre The Playground Theatre
Theatre Labs Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Anastasia Revi
Set designer: Eirini Kariori
THE EXCEPTIONAL CASE OF WHIZZ AND DREX Theatre The Old Red Lion Theatre
SANTAMANA PRODUCTIONS 		Lighting Designer Director: Fred Kelly
A BOY CALLED PORRO Musical Pleasance Theatre London
Tricolore Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Shrubsall
Set designer: Alys Whitehead
EDRED THE VAMPYRE Theatre The Old Red Lion Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Shrubsall
Set designer: Alys Whitehead
DISSOCIATED Musical Etcetera Theatre, Camden
Skitzoid Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: David Bain
Macbeth - The Musical Musical The White Bear Theatre
Stage Splinters 		Lighting Designer Director: Chuma Emembolu
Set designer: Sally Hardcastle
This Play Will Solve Climate Change Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Reusable Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Laura Baggaley
Blue Tights, Red Knickers and an ‘s’ On her vest Theatre The Lion & Unicorn Theatre
Thematic Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Liam Ashmead
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Opera Greenwood Theatre, Kings College London
Fulham Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Paul Higgins
Set designer: Jessica Staton
Nostalgia Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Nomadic Theatrical Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Clive Moffatt
Conversation With Ed Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Evangeline Osbon
The Fear Theatre Bunker Theatre
Mountview 		Lighting Designer Director: Lekan Lawal
King Charles III Theatre Barnes Community Centre
Wild Duck Theatre and Barnes Players 		Lighting Designer Director: Susan Coates
Gravel Heart Theatre Bunker Theatre
Mountview 		Lighting Designer Director: Richard Vincent
Jumping the Shark Theatre The White Bear Theatre
White Bear Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Michael Kingsbury
Avalon Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Savage Kid 		Lighting Designer Director: Peter Craze
The Key Keepers of Kabul Theatre Tara Arts, London
Lighting Designer Director: Kamaal Hussain
LUCREZIA THE SINNER, LUCREZIA THE SAINT Theatre The Oxford Playhouse
Theatre Lab Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Anastasia Revi
Set designer: Valentina Sanna
The Project Theatre The White Bear Theatre
RedNeedles Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Shrubsall
Set designer: Sarah Baker
Connecting... Theatre The Chapel Playhouse
All Terrain Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Lucie Regan
Boomerang Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Ivana Mazza-Coates and Madeleine Shenai
some birds never return Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
The Collective Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Theodor Spiridon
Nor Woman Neither Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Stephen Doolan
104 days with you Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Luna Rose Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Luna Rose
The Empire Has Fallen Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Umbra Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: David Fenne
Valhalla Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Allix James
Apparatus Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Blue Devil Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Ross Dinwiddy
Cinderella :Pantomime Theatre Ye Olde Rose & Crown
Whats in a name productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Law
An Honourable Man Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Honourable Man Productions 		Assistant Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Joseph Ed Thomas
Director: Jolly Gosnold
Set designer: Mike Lees
As You Like It Theatre Ye Olde Rose & Crown
Controlled Chaos Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Michael J. Ansley
Tainted - A New Musical Musical The Vaults Theatre
Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Joseph Ed Thomas
Director: Bryan Hodgson
Set designer: Mike Lees
It Taste Like Home Musical The Bread and Roses Theatre
Divergence Theatre Collective 		Lighting Designer Director: Roman Berry
Set designer: Geraldine Cooper
Cabaret Theatre The Other Palace
Konstantin Kamenski Productions 		Lighting Designer
Clapham Fringe Festival Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
The Bread and Roses Theatre 		Lighting Designer
THE SWORD OF ALEX Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Beyond the Pale theatre company 		Lighting Designer Director: Brian Woolland
Set designer: Alys Whitehead
Chaos Volume III Theatre Katzpace theatre
Controlled Chaos Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer
Richard II Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Open the Vault productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Joshua Jewkes
Trying to be her Theatre Etcetera Theatre
The Writing Network 		Lighting Designer Director: Paula David
Fleeced Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Matipo Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Georgia Hardcastle
Set designer: Sally Hardcastle
SUNFLOWER Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
New Dreams Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Joe Miller
TELO Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
New Dreams Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Laurel Marks
Bandit Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
New Dreams Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Daisy Milner
SUNNY SIDE UP Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
New Dreams Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Tess Agus
In the Wake of Theatre The Lion and Unicorn Theatre
WooHoo Debbie Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Matt Shrachan
No Exit Theatre Bread & Roses Theatre
The Rose Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: James Sheppard
Metamorphosis 2 Theatre Waterloo East Theatre, London
Off The Cliff Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Kasia Różycki
Blue Tights, Red Knickers and an ’S’ on Her Vest Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Thematic Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Liam Ashmead
Romeo and Juliet Theatre Waterloo East Theatre, London
Controlled Chaos Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Paul Anthony
Last one here Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Tripped Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Georgia Leanne Harris
Set designer: Sally Hardcastle
Dare to Do Theatre The Space
Ka Zimba Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Jeffery Kissoon
Set designer: Alfie Heywood
Gift of the Gab Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Shiny Pin Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Simon David Eden
Set designer: Sim E. Sigh
The Buzz Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
The Bread and Roses Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Velenzia Spearpoint
Set designer: Sally Hardcastle
Don Juan Theatre Hoxton Hall Theatre
Theatre Lab Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Anastasia Revi
Set designer: Valentina Sanna
Frankenstein: Live Audio Drama Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Cyborphic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Richard Hand
In the Year 2125 Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Cyborphic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Brooke DeBettignies
Fixed Action Pattern Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Cyborphic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Evi Stamatiou
Close Encounters Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Cyborphic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Darren Tunstall
Dark King Kills Unicorn Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Cyborphic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Stella Keramida
Been on the Job Too Long Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Cyborphic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Simone Giustinelli
For the Living Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Cyborphic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Jay Head
Homo Superior Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Cyborphic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Tess Agus
Paper Doll Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Cyborphic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Katherine Sturt-Scobie
Last Tragedy Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Cyborphic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Sokratis Synitos
RIP Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Cyborphic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Edward Einhorn
The Tempest Theatre The Brockley Jack Theatre
Controlled Chaos Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Dylan Lincoln
Set designer: Dylan Lincoln
Little Did I Know Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
The Bread and Roses Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Roman Berry
Set designer: Reiko Moreau
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich Theatre The Brockley Jack Theatre
Aequitas Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Rachael Bellis
What's your Issue Theatre The Cockpit Theatre - London
Aequitas Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Sophia Start
The Merchant Of Venice Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Aequitas Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Sophia Start
Measure for Measure Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
Aequitas Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Sophia Start
Scars Theatre Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury
Lighting Designer Director: Matthew Woods
Contact method Details
Email address chumald@icloud.com
Agent email nicky@33ltd.com
Website https://www.chumald.com