Joseph Ed Thomas

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Biography

Joseph Ed Thomas, Lighting Designer.

Joseph trained at The ArtsEducational Schools London and RADA.

Joseph has designed shows in London and throughout the UK and Asia. Highlights include…

International Lighting Design Credits:                                                                                                                                                                                                         ONCE (Tokyu Theatre, Tokyo, Japan), ONCE (China Tour).

West End and Touring Lighting Design Credits: 

Carrie Hope Fletcher, An Open Book (UK Tour), Dr.Zhivago, Annie Get Your Gun, ONCE (London Palladium), Collabro, The Farewell Tour (UK Tour), Tango After Dark (Co-Design with Charlie Morgan Jones, Peacock Theatre), The Secret Garden, CAMELOT (London Palladium), John Owen Jones - Music of the Night Tour and Lucie Jones at Christmas (Her Majesty's Theatre, St Davids Hall Cardiff), Collabro, Greatest Hits Tour (London Palladium, Lowry Theatre, Birmingham Symphony Hall and more... UK TOUR), Julius "Call Me Caesar" Caesar (Arts Theatre, West End).

Lighting Design Credits:

Possession (Arcola Theatre), HELEN (Theatre503), Under the Black Rock*** (Arcola Theatre), CRACKED (The Vaults, Waterloo), Cabaret Havana, Why the Whale Came (The Mack, Mountview), Little Voice (UK Tour) as Associate Lighting Designer for Nic Farman, The Pleasure Garden (Above The Stag), 39 and Counting (PARK Theatre 200), Well-Behaved Women (Cadogan Hall), Our Girls Our Game (Alhambra Theatre, Bradford), Wind in the Willows (Theatre Royal Norwich, Turbine Theatre and LATITUDE), EVITA, Moments in Time and The Liberators (Eve Lyons Studio Theatre, PPA), John Owen Jones Celebrating his 50th Birthday - Live at Cadogan Hall, Lucie Jones and David Hunter LIVE! (Cadogan Hall), Rock Choir (Birmingham REP), Collabro, Christmas is Here (Cadogan Hall), Rags (PARK Theatre) as Associate Lighting Designer for Derek Anderson, LOST BOYS (Unity Theatre/Tour), Fight Like A Girl (Mountview), A Million Dreams (O2 Indigo). Amongst others…

​***Offie Nominated Best Lighting Design 2023

​**Offie Nominated Best Lighting Design 2021

​*Offie Nominated Best Lighting Design 2019

@JosephEdThomas

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Specialisms

Theatre:
  • West End
  • Commercial Tour
  • Regional (Main House)
  • Regional (Studio)
  • Small Scale Touring
  • Fringe / Pub Theatre
  • Education Establishment
  • Touring relights
Musical:
  • West End
  • Commercial Tour
  • Regional (Main House)
  • Regional (Studio)
  • Small Scale / Fringe
  • Pantomime
  • Education Establishment
  • Touring relights
Opera:
  • 'Country House'
Dance:
  • Large Scale
  • Medium Scale
Concert:
  • Arena Touring
  • Stage Touring
  • Club
  • Festival
  • Touring relights
Corporate:
  • Product Launches
  • Award Ceremonies
  • Open Air Events
Architectural:
  • Commercial & Retail
  • Leisure & Entertainment
Non-professional:
  • Dance
  • Musicals
  • Opera
  • Plays
  • Projection / Video Design
Education:

Availability

Company:

Previous productions

Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
Diana the Musical Musical Hammersmith Apollo
Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson 		Lighting Designer Director: Owen Horsley
The Overtones - Good Times Tour Concert Indigo O2 + UK Tour
Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Co-Lighting Designer: Craig Greenhalgh
Director: The Overtones
Set designer: Craig Greenhalgh
Hans Zimmer in Concert Concert Cheltenham Race Course
The Studio Orchestra 		Lighting Designer Director: Jack Campey
Loose Women Live Concert London Palladium + UK Tour
Cuffe&Taylor/ LiveNation/ LambertJackson 		Lighting Designer Director: ITV
Set designer: JET STREAM and Jonny Dickie
The Trials Theatre Marlowe Theatre Canterbury
Marlowe Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: David Gilbert and Deborah Shaw
Set designer: Tara Usher
ONCE (Japan Transfer) Musical Tokyu Theatre Orb
LambertJackson and Kyodo Tokyo 		Lighting Designer Director: Dean Johnson
Set designer: JET STREAM and Jonny Dickie
Possession Theatre Arcola Studio 1
Arcola Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Oscar Pearce
Set designer: Sarah Beaton
Carrie Hope Fletcher - An Open Book Concert London Palladium + UK Tour
Cuffe&Taylor/ LiveNation/ LambertJackson 		Lighting Designer Set designer: JET STREAM
Dr Zhivago Musical London Palladium
Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson 		Lighting Designer Set designer: JET STREAM
WILD TANGO Dance European Tour
German Cornejo's Dance Company 		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Co-Lighting Designer: Charlie Morgan Jones
Annie Get Your Gun Musical London Palladium
Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson 		Lighting Designer Set designer: JET STREAM
Once Musical London Palladium
Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson 		Lighting Designer Director: Dean Johnson
Set designer: JET STREAM
Under The Black Rock Theatre Arcola
Bluebird Productions Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Ben Kavanagh
Set designer: Ceci Calf
COLLABRO, Farewell Tour Concert The Adelphi Theatre, London + UK Tour, then touring
Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson 		Lighting Designer Director: Matt Pagan
Set designer: JET
Darknet Theatre Chroma Q Theatre
Leeds Conservatoire 		Lighting Designer Director: Yusuf Khamisa
Set designer: Lu Herbert
Tango After Dark Dance The Peacock Theatre, London
Sadlers Wells 		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Co-Lighting Designer: Charlie Morgan Jones
Choreographer: German Cornejo
John Owen Jones - Music of Night Tour Concert Her Majesty’s London
Lighting Designer Director: John Owen Jones
The Secret Garden the Musical Musical The London Palladium
Cuffe&Taylor/ LambertJackson 		Lighting Designer Director: Nick Winston
Cabaret Havana Musical The Mack, Mountview
BYMT 		Lighting Designer Director: Tiffany King
Set designer: Abi Brown
Why The Whales Came Musical The Mack, Mountview
BYMT 		Lighting Designer Director: Simon Kane
Set designer: Lu Herbert
The Convert Theatre Above The Stag Theatre, Main House
Above The Stag 		Lighting Designer Director: Gene David Kirk
Set designer: David Shields
Little Voice Theatre MAST- Southampton, then touring
Aria Entertainment 		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Nic Farman
Director: Bronagh Lagan
Set designer: Sara Perks
Jewish Hollywood Musical Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Aria Entertainment 		Lighting Designer Director: Cressida Carrè
Camelot Musical London Palladium
Lambert Jackson 		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Butler
Lucie Jones at Christmas Concert Her Majesty’s London
Lambert Jackson 		Lighting Designer Director: Eliza Jackson
Cinderella - Pantomime Dance Millfield Theatre
Platinum Performing Arts 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Various
Collabro, Greatest Hits Tour Concert UK tour
SJM 		Lighting Designer Director: Collabro
Set designer: JET and Robins Audio
The Pleasure Garden Musical Above The Stag Theatre, Main House
Above The Stag 		Lighting Designer Director: Fenton Gray
Set designer: David Shields
39 and Counting Theatre The Park Theatre, 200
Oxford School of Drama 		Lighting Designer Director: Gemma Aked-Priestley
Set designer: Natalie Johnson
Well Behaved Women Musical Cadogan Hall
Lambert Jackson 		Lighting Designer Director: Julie Atherton
Tommy On Top Theatre Above The Stag Theatre, Main House
Above The Stag 		Lighting Designer Director: Bryan Hodgson
Set designer: David Shields
Baskerville Theatre Mercury Colchester
Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jo Town
PLATINUM TRENDING Dance Millfield Theatre
Platinum Performing Arts 		Lighting Designer
The Wind in the Willows Musical Norwich Theatre Royal
Paul Taylor-Mills and Turbine Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Sasha Regan
Set designer: David Shields
Evita Musical Eve Lyons Studio Theatre
PPA 		Lighting Designer Director: Lizzi Gee
Moments In Time Musical Eve Lyons Studio Theatre
PPA 		Lighting Designer
The Liberators Theatre Eve Lyons Studio Theatre
PPA 		Lighting Designer Director: Michelle Payne
John Owen Jones - Celebrating his 50th Birthday Concert Cadogan Hall
Lambert Jackson 		Lighting Designer
Lucie Jones and David Hunter Live Concert Cadogan Hall
Lambert Jackson 		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lambert
, Director: David Hunter
, Director: Lucie Jones
Rock Choir, Comic Relief Concert Musical Birmingham Rep
Rock Choir 		Lighting Designer
Collabro Christmas is Here Concert Cadogan Hall
Lambert Jackson 		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lambert
Robes Charity Sleep In Live from Southwark Cathedral Television Southwark Cathedral
Robes Charity 		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Co-Lighting Designer Will Alder
Guys and Dolls Theatre Rose Theatre, Ascot
St Mary’s Ascot 		Lighting Designer
39 Degrees Theatre The Vaults - Cage
RedBellyBlack 		Lighting Designer Director: Alistair Wilkinson
Who Cares Theatre The Vaults - Cage
JustAddMilk 		Lighting Designer Director: Tom Bellerby
Set designer: Justin Williams
Welcome to Shangri-La Theatre Hope Mill Theatre
Broken Biscuits 		Lighting Designer Director: Joel Parry
Set designer: Abby Clarke
The Spark of Creation Concert Park Theatre
Aria Entertainment 		Lighting Designer
RAGS the Musical Musical Park Theatre 200
Aria Entertainment, Knockhardy Productions and Park Theatre 		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Derek Anderson
Director: Bronagh Lagan
Set designer: Gregor Donnelly
The Love of The Nightingale Theatre The Tower Theatre
The MTA 		Lighting Designer Director: Tilly Vosburgh
Set designer: Stewart J Charlesworth
Dick Whittington Musical The Tower Theatre
The MTA 		Lighting Designer Director: Howard Samuels
Set designer: Stewart J Charlesworth
I Do, I Do Musical Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Joseph Hodges Entertainment 		Lighting Designer Director: Joe Hodges
Set designer: Emily Bestow
Now & Then Musical Above The Stag Theatre
Above The Stag 		Lighting Designer Director: Harry Blumenau
Set designer: David Shields
Lost Boys Theatre Unity Theatre, Liverpool, then touring
National Youth Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Zoe Lafferty
Set designer: Jasmine Swan
Fight Like A Girl Musical Mountview Main House
British Youth Music Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Nick Stimson
Set designer: Talia Sanz, Set designer: Asst. Annie Cross
Woyzeck Theatre Greenside Infirmary Street - Forest Theatre
Missing Cat Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Joshua Silverlock
Set designer: Fran Jones
Making P*rn Theatre Above The Stag Theatre
Above The Stag 		Lighting Designer Director: Andrew Beckett
Set designer: Andrew Beckett
Julius "Call Me Caesar" Caesar Theatre Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh
Andrew Maxwell 		Lighting Designer Director: Russell Bolam
Set designer: Maeve Black
Woyzeck Theatre Quirkspace
Missing Cat Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Joshua Silverlock
Set designer: Fran Jones
PROM! the Musical Musical Oldham Coliseum
Oldham Theatre Workshop 		Lighting Designer Director: James Atherton
Perfectly Ordinary - A New Musical Musical Hope Mill Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Matthew Rankcom
Set designer: Frankie Gerrard
Julius "Call Me Caesar" Caesar Theatre The Arts Theatre, West End
Andrew Maxwell 		Lighting Designer Director: Russell Bolam
Set designer: Maeve Black
A Million Dreams Dance Indigo at the O2
Make Believe 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Various
Boy Toy Dance Above The Stag Theatre
Above The Stag 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: William Spencer
Set designer: Andrew Beckett
The Psychic Project Theatre The Vaults, London
David Narayan Magic 		Lighting Designer Director: David Narayan
Sister Act the Musical Musical The Vaults, London
Associated Studios 		Lighting Designer Director: Cameron Menzies
Ad Libido Theatre Soho Theater, London
Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Peter Small
PURGE Theatre The Lowry, Manchester
Lighting Designer Director: Kayleigh Hawkins
PURGE Theatre Oldham Coliseum
Lighting Designer Director: Kayleigh Hawkins
Digging Deep Theatre The Vaults, London
JustAddMilk 		Lighting Designer Director: Alistair Wilkinson
Set designer: Emily Nobel
MYDIDAE Theatre Hope Mill Theatre
Wonderhouse 		Lighting Designer Director: Laura Woodward
Set designer: Natalie Johnson
Of Our Own Making Theatre Tara Arts, London
Something Underground 		Lighting Designer Director: Jonathan Brown
Set designer: Sorcha Corcoran
AISHA Theatre Tristan Bates Theatre
AILIA UK 		Lighting Designer Director: AJ
Set designer: Alys Whitehead
AISHA Theatre Old Red Lion
AILIA UK 		Lighting Designer Director: AJ
Set designer: Alys Whitehead
Proof Theatre Hope Mill Theatre
Hope Mill Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Joseph Houston
Set designer: Frankie Gerrard
An Honourable Man Theatre The White Bear Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Jolly Gosnold
Set designer: Mike Lees
Tainted - A New Musical Theatre The Vaults Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Bryan Hodgson
Set designer: Mike Lees
Lost Boys New Town Theatre The Hope Theatre
National Youth Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Zoe Lafferty
Set designer: Jasmine Swan
Closets the Musical Musical Hope Mill Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Lloyd Eyre-Morgan
Perfectly Ordinary - A New Musical Theatre GLive Guilford
Lighting Designer Director: Matthew Rankcom
Set designer: JT
The 43 Club Theatre The Other Palace
Lighting Designer Director: Leah Fogo
Set designer: JT
The Jury Musical The Brindley
Ashley Walsh Productions Ltd. & Josh Hankey 		Lighting Designer Director: Joseph Meighan
Shakespeare's Sister Theatre The Courtyard Theatre
The Courtyard Theatre Co. 		Lighting Designer Director: Jake Smith
Set designer: Jamie Simmons
A Chorus Line Theatre ArtsEd - London
ArtsEd 		Lighting Designer Director: Mark Ferrington
The Blue Electric Wind Theatre Bush Theatre, London
ArtsEd Extra 		Lighting Designer Director: Jonathan Goodwin
Drowned or Saved Theatre Drayton Arm Theatre - Kentish Town
StormBlast 		Lighting Designer Director: Geoffrey Williams
Lobster Theatre Theatre503
Snapper Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Kayla Feldman
Set designer: Jamie Simmons
Down The Hatch Theatre GBS Theatre, RADA
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) 		Lighting Designer Director: Vivian Munn
Set designer: Eleanor Field
Miracle on 34th Street Theatre BridgeHouse Theatre SE20
Climar Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Guy Retallack
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