Joe Price
Biography
Joe is a professional theatre maker, lighting designer and ETC Eos programmer based in Bristol and London, and was the recipient of the 2015 Francis Reid Award for Lighting Design.
Joe studied MA Theatre Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and previously received a first class BA (Hons) in Performance Management from the University of Winchester.
He has a variety of experience including Opera, New Writing, Dance, Musicals, Comedy, Spoken Word, Live Music Events and Children's Theatre. He has worked in both fringe and commercial situations, from small to large scale, and has toured around the UK as well as transferring work to New York and Shanghai. Furthermore, he has worked as an associate, assistant and relighter for a number of reputable lighting designers including Peter Mumford, Elliot Griggs, Jack Knowles, Mark Dymock, Kate Bonney and Ace McCaron.
Joe also has training and background in a range of stage management and technical theatre roles. He has extensive relight experience and is a proficient user of Vectorworks, AutoCAD, WYSIWYG, Photoshop/Premiere Pro/After Effects, Lightwright, Qlab, Isadora, Sketchup and a wide range of lighting consoles and other technology. Joe has a full clean UK driving and has previously undertaken first aid training.
Lighting Design credits include: Louisa (Pleasure Dome Theatre Company, UK Tour); Haydn The Creation (Bristol Bach Choir, St Georges Bristol); The Turn of the Screw (Richard Burton Theatre Company, RWCMD); Outlier (Bristol Old Vic); What Songs May Do (Rendez Vous, Dance City); Sammy & The Beanstalk (Opera Up Close, Digital Tour); Peter Pan (The Barn Theatre); Quality Street (Northern Broadsides, UK Tour); In My Lungs The Ocean Swells (No More Superheroes, VAULT Festival); Rapunzel (The Egg Christmas Show, Theatre Royal Bath); The Remains of Logan Dankworth (Luke Wright, UK Tour); Gulp (The Bones Ensemble, UK Tour); Resurrecting Bobby Awl (Avalon & BBC Arts, Summerhall); The Waiting Room (Fourth Floor, The Egg); Ask Me Anything (The Paper Birds, Live Theatre Newcastle); Baba's Song (In Our Hands, UK Tour); Our House is on Fire (Bath Theatre Academy, The Egg); Killymuck & Box Clever (W14 Productions, Bunker Theatre); Father Figurine (Body Politic, UK Tour); The New Romantic (VAULT Festival); Kite (The Wrong Crowd, UK & China Tour); Redefining Juliet (Storme Toolis, Barbican); You Are Here! (The Occasion, UK Planetarium Tour); Mrs Dalloway (Forward Arena, Arcola Theatre); Breathe (Athenaeum, Bunker Theatre); Legacy (Theatre Royal Bath Theatre School, The Egg); This Perfect World (Hive, The Egg); Conditionally (Oxford School of Drama, Soho Theatre); The World's Wife (Mavron Quartet/WNO, Welsh Tour); Heather (Dancing Brick, Bush Theatre); Goldfish Bowl (The Paper Birds, Canada Water Theatre); My Name Is Rachel Corrie (JMK Award, Young Vic); Gate (Deadpan, Cockpit Theatre); Box Clever (nabokov, Paines Plough Roundabout); Frankie Vah (Luke Wright, UK Tour); The Long Trick (Bucket Club, UK Tour); This Must Be The Place (Poleroid, VAULT Festival); It's A Wonderful Life (Blue Apple, Tower Arts Centre); Love Steals Us From Loneliness (Chippy Lane Productions, Chapter Arts Centre); Let The Right One In (Arts Educational Schools); Magnificence (Fat Git, Finborough Theatre); Launch Party (Bucket Club/Farnham Maltings, UK Tour); Heads Will Roll (Told By An Idiot, UK Tour); How To Date A Feminist (Laundry Productions, Arcola Theatre); Some Girl(s) (Buckland, Park Theatre); Around The World in 80 Days (Blue Apple, Theatre Royal Winchester); Fossils (Bucket Club, UK Tour/Brits off Broadway); Daughter of the Forest (Komola Collective, UK Tour); The Love I Feel Is Red (Tobacco Factory, Zion Community Space); Some People Talk About Violence (Barrel Organ, Camden People's Theatre); Dry Land (Damsel Productions, Jermyn Street Theatre); Hitchhiker's Guide to the Family (Ideas Tap, Edinburgh Fringe & UK Tour); Plastic (Poleroid, Latitude Festival); A Third (Fat Git, Finborough Theatre); Alternative Routes (National Dance Company Wales, Dance House WMC); The Duchess of Malfi (Richard Burton Theatre Company, RWCMD); Animal (Royal Court/Richard Burton Theatre Company, Gate Theatre); The Endless Ocean (National Theatre Wales/Richard Burton Theatre Company, Gate Theatre); Y Twr (Invertigo, UK Tour); I Feel Fine (Fat Git, New Diorama Theatre); The Snowqueen (Blue Apple, Tower Arts Centre); West Side Story (SJ Theatre Productions, Theatre Royal Winchester).
Relight credits include: Kite (Wrong Crowd/Soho Theatre, UK Tour); Much Ado About Nothing (Blue Apple Theatre Company, UK Tour), Symphony (nabokov/Soho Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe & UK Tour); The Taking of Zena Charbonne (Occasional Cabaret, UK Tour); Blink (nabokov/Soho Theatre, UK Tour & Brits off Broadway); Living Without Fear (Blue Apple Theatre, UK Tour); Wasted (Paines Plough, UK Tour); Miss Julie (UK Touring Productions, UK Tour); Some Like It Hotter (Fresh Glory Productions, UK Tour); Hamlet (Blue Apple Theatre Company, UK Tour).
Other notable credits include: The Deluge - Technical Stage Manager (Lila Dance Company, UK Tour), I'm Not Here Right Now - Production Manager (Dancing Brick/Soho Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe), Reasons To Be Pretty - Lighting Programmer (Richard Burton Theatre Company, Caird Studio) The Trial - Lighting Programmer (Music Theatre Wales, Linbury Studio Royal Opera House); Leaving Home Party - Stage Manager (Farnham Maltings, Edinburgh Fringe); Grease - Deputy Stage Manager (High Storrs School, The Crucible); Bare: A Pop Opera - Deputy Stage Manager (Total Theatre, Loughborough Town Hall); Aladdin - Technician (Theatre Royal Winchester); Made in Winchester Youth Festival - Production Manager (Theatre Royal Winchester)
Specialisms
- International
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
- Small Scale Touring
- Fringe / Pub Theatre
- Touring relights
- Projection / Video Design
- Regional (Main House)
- Small Scale / Fringe
- Pantomime
- Large scale
- Small scale
- Projection / Video Design
- UK National Company
- Small Scale
- Festival
- Educational Establishments
- Leisure & Entertainment
Previous productions
| Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative Team | Opened | |
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| A Woman Walks Into A Bank | Theatre |
Theatre503
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Lighting Designer |
Director: Roxy Cook Set designer: David Allen |
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| Machinal | Theatre |
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath
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Associate Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Adam Silverman Director: Richard Jones Set designer: Hyemi Shin |
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| Shock Horror | Theatre |
Churchill Theatre Bromley, then touring
Thunder Road Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Ryan Simons Set designer: Ethan Cheek |
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| Bitcoin Boi | Theatre |
Riverfront Theatre, then touring
|
Lighting Designer |
Director: Hannah McPake Set designer: Mari Hullett |
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| The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | Theatre |
The Watermill Theatre
|
Lighting Programmer |
Lighting designer: Katy Morison Director: Kate Budgen Set designer: Amy Jane Cook |
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| Dinosaurs & All That Rubbish | Theatre |
The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
Roustabout Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Toby Hulse Set designer: Maria Terry |
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| Quality Street | Theatre |
New Vic Theatre, then touring
Northern Broadsides and New Vic Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Laurie Sansom Set designer: Jessica Worrall |
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| Merboy | Theatre |
Omnibus Theatre
Campfire Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Scott Le Crass Set designer: Ica Niemz |
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| Songs Across The Sueniverse | Musical |
Sherman Theatre Studio
National Theatre Wales |
Lighting Designer | |||
| Five Children And It | Theatre |
The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath
Bucket Club |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Nel Crouch Set designer: Rebecca Wood |
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| Youth's The Season | Theatre |
Tobacco Factory Theatres
Bristol School of Acting |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Evan Lordan Set designer: Charlotte Cooke |
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| Revealed | Theatre |
Tobacco Factory Theatres
Tobacco Factory Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jay Zorenti-Nakhid Set designer: Amanda Mascarenhas |
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| Carmen | Opera |
Arcola Theatre
Baseless Fabric |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Joanna Turner Set designer: Marina Hadjilouca |
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| Dinosaurs & All That Rubbish | Theatre |
Assembly Studio Two, Edinburgh, then touring
Roustabout Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Toby Hulse Set designer: Maria Terry |
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| The Sweet Science of Bruising | Theatre |
The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath
Bath Theatre Academy |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Julia Head Set designer: Cat Fuller |
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| South Western | Theatre |
Brewhouse Theatre
The Wardrobe Ensemble |
Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Original design by Matt Graham Director: Tom Brennan Set designer: Anna Orton |
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| Petula | Theatre |
Sherman Cymru, then touring
National Theatre Wales |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Mathilde Lopez Set designer: Jean Chan |
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| Five Children And It | Theatre |
The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath
Bucket Club |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Nel Crouch Set designer: Rebecca Wood |
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| Louisa | Theatre |
Lynton Town Hall, then touring
Pleasure Dome Theatre Company |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Scott Le Crass Set designer: Lizzie Watts |
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| I Stand For What I Stand On | Theatre |
Tobacco Factory, Bristol, then touring
Strike a Light |
Touring Re-Lighter |
Lighting designer: Will Monks Director: Anna Himali Howard Set designer: Grace Venning |
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| Haydn The Creation | Concert |
St George's Bristol
Bristol Bach Choir |
Lighting & Projection / Video Designer |
Director: Christopher Finch (Conductor) |
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| The Turn of the Screw | Opera |
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
|
Lighting Designer |
Director: Martin Constantine Set designer: Mollie Cheek |
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| Outlier | Theatre |
Bristol Old Vic
|
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jenny Davies Set designer: Rebecca Wood |
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| What Songs May Do (Live Stream) | Dance |
Dance City, Newcastle
Rendez Vouz Dance |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Mathieu Geffre |
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| Peter Pan | Theatre |
Barn Theatre, Cirencester
|
Lighting Designer |
Director: Kirk Jameson Set designer: Gregor Donnelly |
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| Quality Street | Theatre |
Viaduct Halifax, then touring
Northern Broadsides |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Laurie Sansom Set designer: Jessica Worrall |
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| In My Lungs The Ocean Swells | Theatre |
Vault Festival, London
No More Superheroes |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Natasha Hyman Set designer: Grace Venning |
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| Ask Me Anything | Theatre |
Live Theatre, Newcastle - Then UK Tour, then touring
The Paper Birds |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jemma McDonnell Set designer: Rebecca Wood |
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| Rapunzel | Theatre |
The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath
Theatre Royal Bath |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Nik Partridge Set designer: Rosanna Vize |
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| Luke Wright - The Remains of Logan Dankworth | Theatre |
Norwich Arts Centre, then touring
|
Lighting Designer |
Director: Alex Thorpe |
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| Father Figurine | Dance |
The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol, then touring
Body Politic |
Lighting Designer | |||
| Resurrecting Bobby Awl | Theatre |
Summerhall, Edinburgh
Avalon Arts |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Josh Roche Set designer: Sophie Thomas |
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| The Waiting Room | Theatre |
The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath
Fourth Floor |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jenny Davies Set designer: Rebecca Wood |
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| Baba's Song | Theatre |
Camden People's Theatre, then touring
In Our Hands |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Emma Williams |
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| Our House Is On Fire | Theatre |
The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath
Theatre Royal Bath Theatre School |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Julia Head Set designer: Molly Hawkins |
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| Killymuck | Theatre |
The Bunker Theatre
W14 Productions |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Caitriona Shoobridge Set designer: Minglu Wang |
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| Box Clever | Theatre |
The Bunker Theatre
W14 Productions |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Stef O'Driscoll Set designer: Minglu Wang |
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| You Are Here! | Theatre |
Winchester Planetarium, then touring
The Ocassion |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Peter Clerke Set designer: Ali MacLaurin |
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| Mrs Dalloway | Theatre |
Arcola Theatre
Forward Arena |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Thomas Bailey Set designer: Emma D'Arcy |
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| Exit Number 8 | Theatre |
Kings Head Theatre
|
Lighting Designer |
Director: Ellie Heydon |
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| Breathe | Theatre |
The Bunker Theatre
Athenaeum Productions |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Hannah Hauer-King Set designer: Cindy Lin |
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| Legacy | Theatre |
the egg, Theatre Royal, Bath
Theatre Royal Bath Theatre School |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Lee Lyford Set designer: Eleanor Bull |
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| This Perfect World | Theatre |
the egg, Theatre Royal, Bath
Hive |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jenny Davies & Jesse Jones |
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| Conditionally | Theatre |
Soho Theatre
Oxford School of Drama |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Blythe Stewart Set designer: James Turner-Donnelly |
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| Goldfish Bowl | Theatre |
Battersea Arts Centre
The Paper Birds |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jemma McDonnell Set designer: Rebecca Wood |
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| The World's Wife | Opera |
Weston Studio Wales Millennium Centre, then touring
Welsh National Opera and The Mavron Quartet |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Edward Madden Set designer: Grace Smart |
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| My Name is Rachel Corrie | Theatre |
Young Vic (Clare Studio)
JMK Award |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Josh Roche Set designer: Sophie Thomas |
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| The Golden Dragon | Opera |
Sherman Cymru, then touring
Music Theatre Wales |
Touring Re-Lighter |
Lighting designer: Ace McCarron Director: Michael McCarthy |
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| Gate | Theatre |
Cockpit Theatre
Deadpan Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Sadie Spencer Set designer: Alex Berry |
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| Box Clever | Theatre |
Paines Plough's Roundabout
nabokov |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Stef O'Driscoll Set designer: Lucy McGeown |
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| Frankie Vah | Theatre |
Underbelly, then touring
Paul Jellis |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Joe Murphy |
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| Heather | Theatre |
Bush Theatre, then touring
Talking Brick & Paul Jellis |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Valentina Ceschi Set designer: Lily Arnold |
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| DIGS | Theatre |
Camden People's Theatre, then touring
Theatre With Legs |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jemima James |
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| Fossils | Theatre |
59E59 Theater, NYC
Bucket Club |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Nel Crouch Set designer: Rebecca Wood |
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| Kray Kray | Theatre |
Theatre N16
PND Productions |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Bryan Hodgson |
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| The Long Trick | Theatre |
The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol, then touring
Bucket Club |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Nel Crouch Set designer: Rebecca Wood |
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| Let The Right One In | Theatre |
Arts Educational School, London, UK
Arts Educational Schools |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Dan Bird Set designer: Louie Whitmore |
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| Y Twr | Theatre |
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, then touring
Invertigo Theatre Company |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Aled Pedrick Set designer: Charley Fone |
| Contact method | Details |
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| Email address | |
| Website | www.joepricelighting.co.uk |
| X | www.twitter.com/Joe2DP |