Richard G Jones
Biography
Richard won a Drama Desk Award for outstanding lighting design and received an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Sweeney Todd on Braodway. Other award winning productions have included the, West End and UK national tour of Sweeney Todd, the West End and Watermill Theatre production of the Gondoliers and The Railway Children at the London Kings Cross Theatre. Richard has recently worked on lighting designs for The National Tour of Sister Act, Still Game and Gary Tank Commander at the Hydro Glasgow, Kitchen Sink at Stoke, Cinderella at York Theatre Royal, Rock and Roll Sinbad at The New Wolsey Ipswich and The Strictly Come Dancing 2017 Arena Tour for Phil McIntyre and Stage Entertainment. National tours have included Catherine Tate Tour Live, Fiddler on the Roof, Calamity Jane, Diary of Anne Frank, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Beautiful Thing, Wuthering Heights, Rasputin, Candide, Mack and Mabel & Sweeney Todd. West End work includes Sunset Boulevard, The Gondoliers, Mack and Mabel, When Pigs Fly, Female Parts and Sweeney Todd. Repertory theatre work includes Behind the Scenes at the Museum, A Taste of Honey, Piaf, Abandonment, Private Lives and Amadeus for York Theatre Royal; Martin Guerre, The Hot Mikado, Carmen, Fiddler on the Roof, Irma la Douce, and Cabaret for the Watermill Theatre Newbury; The White Album, All Quiet on the Western Front , The Man Who, Satin 'N' Steel and Chicken Soup with Barley for Nottingham Playhouse; Mary Barton and Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf for Manchester Royal Exchange. . He has also designed for The Royal Northern College of Music, The Norwich Playhouse; The Duchy Ballet, Cornwall; Covent Garden Linbury Studio; Culture and Congress Centre Lucerne, Switzerland; The Swan Theatre, Worcester; Library Theatre, Manchester; Everyman Theatres, Liverpool and Cheltenham; Arden Theatre; Manchester, Bolton Octagon Theatre; Birmingham REP; Oxford Playhouse and The Theatre on the Lake, Keswick. Full listing of work and images can be seen at
Specialisms
- West End
- Commercial Tour
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
- West End
- Commercial Tour
- Regional (Main House)
- Large scale
- Large Scale
- Arena Touring
Previous productions
| Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative Team | Opened | |
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| Sister Act | Musical |
Jamie Wilson Productions |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Craig Revel Horwood Set designer: Matthew Wright |
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| Strictly Come Dancing Arena Tour | Theatre |
Barclaycard Arena Birmingham, then touring
Phil McIntyre and Stage Entertainment |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Craig Revel Horwood |
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| Cinderella | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Berwick Kaler and Damian Cruden Set designer: Mark Walters |
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| Sinbad | Theatre |
The New Wolsey Ipswich
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Lighting Designer |
Director: Pete Rowe Set designer: Barney George |
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| The Railway Children | Theatre |
National Railway Museum York
York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Damian Cruden Set designer: Jo Scotcher |
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| In Fog and Falling Snow | Theatre |
National Railway Museum York
York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Damian Cruden Set designer: Richard Foxton |
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| Noises Off | Theatre |
Bolton Octagon Theatre
Bolton Octagon |
Lighting Designer |
Director: David Thacker Set designer: Rauri Murchison |
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| Other Desert Cites | Theatre |
English Theatre Frankfurt |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Tom Littler Set designer: Bob Bailey |
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| Hindle Wakes | Theatre |
Octagon Theatre Boton, then touring
Octagon Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: David Thacker Set designer: Rauri Murchison |
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| Calamity Jane | Theatre |
Plymouth Theatre Royal, then touring
Jamie Wilson Productions |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Nickolai Foster Set designer: Matthew Wright |
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| The Railway Children | Theatre |
London Kings Cross Theatre
Theatre Tracks Limited |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Damian Cruden Set designer: Jo Scotcher |
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| Canterbury Tales | Theatre |
New Vic Stoke, then touring
Northern Broadsides |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Conrad Nelson Set designer: Lis Evans |
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| Behud | Theatre |
Coventry Belgrade, then touring
Soho Theatre London |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Lisa Goldman Set designer: Hannah Clark |
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| A Pair of Pinters | Theatre |
Guildhall Theatre Derby
Derby LIVE |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Esther Richardson Set designer: Dawn Allsopp |
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| Oliver Twist | Theatre |
Octagon Theatre Bolton
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Lighting Designer |
Director: Josette Bushell-Mingo Set designer: Dawn Allsopp |
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| The Hot Mikado | Theatre |
Watermill Theatre Newbury, then touring
Watermill Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Craig Revel Horwood Set designer: Diego Pitarch |
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| The Homecoming | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
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Lighting Designer |
Director: Damian Cruden Set designer: Dawn Allsopp |
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| Death of a Salesman | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Damian Cruden Set designer: Dawn Allsopp |
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| Accidental Death of an Anarchist | Theatre |
Viaduct Halifax, then touring
Northern Broadsides |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Conrad Nelson Set designer: Dawn Allsopp |
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| Horrid Henry Live and Horrid! | Theatre |
Sheffield Lyceum Theatre, then touring
Watershed Productions |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Hannah Chissick Set designer: Pip Leckenby |
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| The Railway Children | Theatre |
National Railway Museum
York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Damian Cruden Set designer: Joanna Scotcher |
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| Sunset Boulevard | Theatre |
Watermill Theatre Newbury
Watermill Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Craig Revel Horwood Set designer: Diego Pitarch |
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| Man For All Seasons | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Paul Shelly Set designer: Nigel Hook |
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| Three Men in a Boat | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
Riding Lights and York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Paul Burbridge Set designer: Sean Cavanagh |
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| Secrets | Theatre |
Polka Theatre, then touring
Polka |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Vicky Ireland |
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| The Secret Garden | Theatre |
Electric Theatre Guildford
Guildford School of Acting |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Gerry Tebbutt Set designer: Colin Mayes |
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| Twinkle Little Star | Theatre |
Lakeside Theatre Nottingham, then touring
Lakeside Theatre Nottingham and York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Damian Cruden and Matt Aston Set designer: Mark Walters |
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| Sinbad The Sailor | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Berwick Kaler & Damian Cruden Set designer: Phil R Daniels |
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| Celebrating Christmas with the Salvation Army | Concert |
Royal Albert Hall
Salvation Army |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Graham Hubard Set designer: Richard G Jones |
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| Martin Guerre | Theatre |
Watermill Theatre Newbury
Watermill Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Craig Revel Horwood |
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| Spongebob Squarepants | Theatre |
Singapore Expo Centre, then touring
Broadway Asia |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Gip Hoppe Set designer: David Gallo |
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| Whisky Galore | Theatre |
Nottingham Playhouse, then touring
Nottingham Playhouse |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Giles Croft Set designer: Helen Davies |
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| Cinderella | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
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Lighting Designer |
Director: Damian Cruden & Berwick Kaler Set designer: Nigel Hook |
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| Beauty and the Beast | Theatre |
Clwyd Theatr Cymru |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Pete Rowe |
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| ART | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Damian Cruden |
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| Mary Barton | Theatre |
Manchester Royal Exchange |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Sarah Frankcom Set designer: Liz Ascroft |
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| Hot Mikado | Musical |
Watermill Theatre Newbury |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Craig Revel Horwood |
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| The Lad Aladdin | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
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Lighting Designer |
Director: Berwick Kaler&Damian Cruden Set designer: Nigel Hook |
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| Sweeney Todd | Musical |
Eugene O'neill Theatre New York, then touring
Richard Frankel Productions |
Lighting Designer |
Director: John Doyle |
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| Steptoe and Son | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
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Lighting Designer |
Director: Roger Smith Set designer: Nigel Hook |
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| Sweeney Todd | Musical |
New Ambassadors London
Watermill Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: John Doyle Set designer: John Doyle |
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| Mack and Mabel | Musical |
Watermill Theatre Newbury
Watermill Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: John Doyle Set designer: Mark Bailey |
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| Twelfth Night | Theatre |
Bolton Octagon Theatre
Octagon Theatre Company |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Mark Babych Set designer: Patrick Connellan |
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| Pinafore Swing | Musical |
Watermill Theatre Newbury
Watermill Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: John Doyle Set designer: Sarah Jane McClelland |
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| Northanger Abbey | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Tim Luscombe Set designer: Mark Bailey |
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| A Taste Of Honey | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Damian Cruden Set designer: Dawn Allsopp |
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| Sweeney Todd | Musical |
Watermill Theatre Newbury
Watermill Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: John Doyle Set designer: John Doyle |
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| Kafka's Dick | Theatre |
York Theatre Royal
York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Damian Cruden Set designer: Nigel Hook |
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| Club Tropicana | Musical |
Arts Educational Theatre
Arts Ed |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Michael Vivien Set designer: Colin Mayes |
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| Ten Cents a Dance | Theatre |
Watermill Theatre Newbury
Watermill Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: John Doyle Set designer: Mark Bailey |
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| The Man Outside | Theatre |
Arden Theatre
Arden Theatre School |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Graham Geigenmueller |
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| Into The Woods | Musical |
York Theatre Royal
York Theatre Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: John Doyle Set designer: Mark Baily |
| Contact method | Details |
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| Agent name |
Clare Fox Associates |
| Agent phone |
020 7328 7494 |