Mark Jonathan

Freelance lighting designer of drama, musicals, opera, ballet, dance, ice in Britain and Worldwide:                Website: www.markjonathan.com

Winner of the 2019 Knight of Illumination Opera Award for 'Vanessa' at Glyndebourne.  Finalist in 2013 World Stage Design. Nominated for Knight of Illumination (Theatre/Opera- WNO Lulu 2013); 2007 Drama Desk Nomination for Most outstanding Lighting Design for Prometheus Bound (Classic Stage, New York). In 2014 he was awarded a  Fellowship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for services to theatre. 

1993-2003: Head of Lighting at the National Theatre. 1978-1992: Glyndebourne Opera lighting department.

Languages English (MT), French (Fluent), German, Italian (Working knowledge)

Drama/Musicals

The Fellowship (Hampstead Theatre); Private Lives (Bath Theatre Royal / National Tour) Sweeney Todd; (Liverpool Everyman), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (National Tour); Blithe Spirit, (London West End, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Toronto); Playmas (Richmond Orange Tree); Our Country's Good, (Nottingham Playhouse and touring); The Revenger's Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, Arcadia, Time and the Conways, Richard lll, (Nottingham Playhouse); Edward ll, Dr Faustus, Pygmalion, The Miser (Royal Exchange, Manchester). Rudy's Rare Records (Hackney Empire), Maurice's Jubilee (Edinburgh Festival and UK tour),  A British Subject (Edinburgh Festival/ New York, London West End). My Mother Said I Never Should, Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian, Cinderella, Aladdin (Palace Theatre, Watford). Othello (RSC/ tour).The Miser, Babylone (Belgrade Coventry). Collaboration, Taking Sides (Chichester Festival and Westend); Nicholas Nickleby, (Chichester Festival, National Tour, West End and Toronto) Office Suite, Hobson's Choice (Chichester Festival and touring) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Lady's not for Burning, Babes in Arms (Chichester Festival); Denis the Menace (South Bank); Rudy's Rare Records, Uncle Vanya, The Life of Galileo, Wizard of Oz, The Witches, The Norman Conquests, Neville's Island, The Crucible, Jumpers (Birmingham Rep); Monkey, Wizard of OZ (West Yorkshire); Shadowmouth, The Clean House (Crucible Studio, Sheffield); Tejas Verdes (The Gate); Free Outgoing, Clubland, Breathing Corpses, In the Blood, Class Enemy, (Royal Court). Paradise Lost (Headlong); Hamlet (Royal Theatre,Northampton); Prometheus Bound (Sound, London, & Classic Stage, New York); Marlene, (UK Tours, Ireland, West End, Paris and Broadway);

London/ West End: Private Lives (Ambassadors); Blithe Spirit, (Gielgud); Nicholas Nickleby (Gielgud); The Witches (Wyndhams); Skylight (NT Cottesloe, Wyndhams/Vaudeville/touring); The Adventures of the Stoneheads (NT Lyttelton); Titus Andronicus (NT Cottesloe/WYP) Peggy Sue got Married (Shaftesbury,); Sweet Charity (Victoria Palace); Honk! (NT Olivier); The Waiting Room (NT Cottesloe); Collaboration, Taking Sides (Duchess); Marlene (Lyric);

Earlier in career many productions for the NYT, Shaw Theatre, Soho Poly, Stratford East.

Dance/Ballet 

The Tales of Beatrix Potter, The Sleeping Beauty, Sylvia, La Sylphide, Napoli Divertissements, Cinderella (The Royal Ballet, ROH/BBC); Aladdin, Cyrano, Sylvia, Beauty & the Beast, Protecting Veil, The Seasons, Far from the Madding Crowd, Powder, Dante Sonata, Enigma Variations, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, The Two Pigeons, Scenes de Ballet, The Prospect before Us, (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Casse Noisette (Ballet Capitole de Toulouse); The Nutcracker (Northern Ballet); The Two Pigeons (Scottish Ballet); Cinderella, (Finnish National Ballet); Aladdin, Sylvia (National Ballet of Japan); Aladdin (Houston Ballet); Landschaft und Erinnerung, Exilium (Stuttgart) Sylvia (American Ballet Theatre, the Met, St Petersburg, Buenos Aires, StaatsBallett Berlin) Anne of Green Gables, Ballet Shoes, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Snow White, Nanny McPhee, The Secret Garden, Jane Eyre, A Little Princess (London Children's Ballet); Up from the Waste (Antonia Franchesci); Ashton Festival at the Met:- Cinderella (Royal Ballet) Enigma Variations, Dante Sonata, Two Pigeons (BRB), Cinderella on Ice, Sleeping Beauty on Ice (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Imperial Ice stars)

Opera 

2024: Così fan tutte (Welsh National Opera); Götterdämmerung (LPO, South Bank); Tosca (Grange Festival); Edgar, I Pagliacci, Il segretto di Susanna (Opera Holland Park); Suor Angelica, The Elixir of Love (English National Opera)

2023: L'elisir d'amore (Longborough Festival Opera); Il barbiere di Siviglia (Scottish Opera); Ruddigpre (Opera Holland Park/ Charles Court Opera);

2022:Don Giovanni (Scottish Opera) director Sir Thomas Allen,

2021: Giulio Cesare (Theatre an der Wien) director Keith Warner 2019: Dead Man Walking, The Prisoner, The Consul, Fidelio act 2, (Welsh National Opera)  Iolante, Il Segreto di Susanna (Opera Holland Park), Magic Flute (Scottish Opera) A Midsummer's Night Dream (Guildhall School). 2018: Madama Butterfly, Vanessa (Glyndebourne), Die Zauberflöte, (Garsington), Idomeneo, Alzira, La Fille du Regiment (Buxton Festival)     I Puritani (Lyceu, Barcelona). In 2017:  Zàza (Opera Holland Park); Semele, Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Turco in Italia (Garsington); Jenufa (Royal Swedish Opera);The Tale of Januarie (Guildhall); Dead Man Walking (Royal Danish Opera);   2016: The Rape of Lucretia, (GSMD); Pelléas et Melisande (Royal Swedish Opera); The Mikado,  (Scottish Opera); Madama Butterfly (Glyndebourne); I Puritani, Askepot (Danish National Opera). Previously:   Lulu, Pelléas et Melisande (Dir David Pountney, Des Johan Engels, Costume Marie-Jeanne Lecca) I Puritani (Director Annilese Miskimmon, Des Leslie Travers) at Welsh National Opera. Don Quichotte, Jenufa (Dir Annilese Miskimmon, Des Nicky Shaw) at Danish National Opera. L'amour dei tre re, Barbiere di Siviglia, The Turn of the Screw, Pecheurs de Perles, Cavaleria Rusticana, Pagliacci,  L'amico Fritz, Don Pasquale, La Forza del Destino, Francesca da Rimini  at Opera Holland Park. Owen Wingrave (GSMD/ Banff Festival) The Rape of Lucretia, Cherubin (GSMD). Gianni Schicchi (Teatro Real, Madrid and Spoletto Festival- dir Woody Allen). Il Trittico: Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica- (director William Friedkin) Gianni Schicchi (Director Woody Allen)  (Los Angeles Opera)   Der Freischutz (Finnish National Opera). Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro (Director Sir Thomas Allen, des Simon Higlett- Scottish Opera); Jenufa, (Director Annilese Miskimmon, Des Nicky Shaw Scottish Opera and Danish National Opera) La Traviata (Dir Annilese Miskimmon, Des Nicky Shaw) Orfeo ed Euridice (Dir/ Chor Ashley Page, Des Johan Engels) Scottish Opera; Salome, Das Gehege (Bayerischer Staats Oper, Munich- Director William Friedkin, Stage Designer Hans Schavernoch); Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Gianni Schicci (Washington National Opera- Director William Friedkin); Hansel and Gretel, (dir: Doug Fitch), Ariadne auf Naxos (Dir: William Friedkin), Don Pasquale, Falstaff, (Dir: Stephen Lawless), Peter Grimes (Dir: John Schlesinger) for Los Angeles Opera; Samson et Deliah (Dir: William Friedkin), Carmen, (dir: Stephen Lawless) (Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv); Venus & Adonis, Dido and Aenaes (Dir Stephen Lawless), (Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp/Ghent); Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Strasbourg & Caen); La Finta Semplice (Potsdam Sansoucci); Cosi Fan Tutte, Rigoletto, Betley, Il Pagliacci, Gianni Schicci, Cavaleria Rusticana, Barber of Seville (Holland Park, London) Cosi Fan Tutte, Idomeneo, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, The Rake's Progress, Albert Herring (Glyndbourne Touring opera). Exibited work at World stage Design 2013, Collaborators, Time & Space, 2D3D, Prague Quadrennial (99) British Entry, World Stage Design 2005, 2013.

Other: Deputy Chair /Director of the ALPD formally ALD, formally professionals Rep, Member of British Equity and United Scenic Artists.

He has Lectured for: Rose Bruford, (BA lighting and BA Stage Design), RADA,  Wimbledon UAL (MA designers), LIPA, Central School of Speech and Drama, (Post Grad Lighting), LAMDA, The National Theatre Studio Directors' Course, for the NT Studio residencies in London, South Africa, Belfast and Edinburgh Festival and NT Education and the NYT. Chaired Platforms with Richard Pilbrow (NT Lyttelton), David Hersey (NT Oliver) Nichola McAulliffe (NT Cottesloe), The annual Lighting Christmas Lunch since 2003, Presenter for the KOI 2014 and 2015 and various events for the ALD, PLASA, ABTT, The Linbury Prize, the National Theatre, the SBTD and the V&A. Published articles in FOCUS, the Stage, contributor to 'The Right Light' (Nick Moran); Foreword to Nigel Morgan's book 'Lighting for Designers'. Presented the ABTT Fellowship to Francis Reid, Richard Pilbrow and Jason Barnes.  Website: www.markjonathan.com