Sherry L Coenen

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Sherry Coenen (Lighting Designer)

Award winning lighting designer Sherry Coenen works across the UK and US. She has a BFA in Lighting Design from the University of Miami and is a member of APLD.

Theatre includes: XXXMas Carol (Wales Millennium Centre), Spitlip’s Operation Mincemeat (New Diorama Theatre, Southwark Playhouse and Riverside Studios – nominated for Knights of Illumination award 2019), Frankenstein (Beatbox Academy at BAC, Knights of Illumination winner 2019), The Singing Mermaid (Little Angel Theatre), Izindava (UK Tour), Brigitte Aphrodite’s Parakeet (Paines Plough Roundabout, Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Christopher Brett Bailey’s This is How We Die (UK Tour), The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch),  Skin Tight (Park90), CELL (UK Tour), Conquest of the South Pole (Arcola), These Trees are Made of Blood (Arcola), Brrr! (UK Tour), 5 Guys Chillin’ (Kings Head Theatre), Anton Chekhov (Hampstead Theatre).

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Specialisms

Theatre:
  • Regional (Main House)
  • Regional (Studio)
  • Small Scale Touring
  • Fringe / Pub Theatre
  • Touring relights
Musical:
  • Regional (Main House)
  • Regional (Studio)
  • Small Scale / Fringe
  • Pantomime
Opera:
  • Small scale
Dance:
  • Large Scale
  • Medium Scale
  • Touring relights
Concert:
  • Stage Touring
  • Club
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Previous productions

Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
THREE Theatre BEAM, Hertford, then touring
Smoking Apples 		Lighting Designer Director: Matt Lloyd and Molly Freeman
Set designer: Matt Lloyd
Overheard in a Tower Block Theatre Little Angel Studios
Little Angel 		Lighting Designer Director: Samantha Lane
Set designer: Oliver Hymans & Dan Southwell
Krafty the Urban Fox: Tales from the Tower Block Theatre Little Angel Studios
Little Angel 		Lighting Designer Director: Samantha Lane
Set designer: Oliver Hymans
Rupture Theatre Live Theatre, Newcastle, then touring
Open Clasp 		Lighting Designer Director: Rachel Glover
Set designer: Natalie Johnson
The Pea and the Princess Theatre Polka Theatre
Polka Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Jemma Last
Set designer: TK Hay
A Squash and a Squeeze Theatre Little Angel Studios, then touring
Little Angel Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Samantha Lane
Set designer: Kate Bunce
Scruff's Christmas Adventure Theatre Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead
Little Angel Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Charlotte Irwin and Alice Bravery
Set designer: Daniel Southwell
Northbound Boy Theatre Kings Head Theatre
Northbound Boy Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Alex Jackson
Set designer: Cory Shipp
When It Happens to You Theatre Park Theatre - Park200
Park Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Jez Bond
Set designer: Zahra Mansouri
Prince Charming Musical Little Angel Theatre
Little Angel Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Elgiva Field
Set designer: Oliver Hymans
Persephone Theatre Little Angel Studios
Little Angel Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Samantha Lane
Set designer: Ash Appadu
Boxville Theatre Tabacco Factory, then touring
Cardboard Adventures 		Lighting Designer Director: Sam Wilde and Ian Nicholson
Set designer: Sam Wilde
Broken Water Theatre Arcola Studio 2
Lightbox Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Nicola Samer
Set designer: Sorcha Corcoran
The First XXXMas Theatre Weston Studio Wales Millennium Centre
A Wales Millennium Centre and Duncan Hallis Production 		Lighting Designer Director: Duncan Hallis
Set designer: Brad Caleb Lee
Charlie Cook's Favourite Book Theatre Little Angel Studios, then touring
Little Angel Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Samantha Lane
Set designer: Ellie Mills
Mycelial Theatre Northern Stage 2
Open Clasp 		Lighting Designer Director: Laura Lindow
Set designer: Amanda Mascarenhas
LIGHT Dance Swanage
Landance 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Devised by the Company
Set designer: Ella Huhne
SALT: A Community Play for Poole Theatre Lighthouse Poole - Concert Hall
Lighthouse Poole 		Lighting Designer Director: Angel Exit Theatre
Set designer: Sophia Lovell Smith
Rupture Theatre West End Women and Girls Centre, then touring
Open Clasp 		Lighting Designer Director: Rachel Glover
Set designer: Natalie Johnson
Lasagna Theatre Live Theatre, then touring
Open Clasp 		Lighting Designer Director: Laura Lindow
Set designer: Verity Quinn
The Lost Spells Musical Watford Palace Theatre, then touring
Goblin Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Andy Barry
Set designer: Hannah Sibai
Winner's Curse Theatre Park Theatre - Park200
Park Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Jez Bond
Set designer: Isobel Nicolson
The Lion, The B!tch, and The Wardrobe Theatre Weston Studio Wales Millennium Centre
Wales Millennium Centre and Duncan Hallis Production 		Lighting Designer Director: Duncan Hallis
Set designer: Cory Shipp
Operation Mincemeat Musical Riverside Studio 2
SpitLip 		Lighting Designer Director: Rob Hastie
Set designer: Helen Coyston
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ The Musical Musical Queen's Theatre Hornchurch
Queen's Theatre Hornchurch 		Lighting Designer Director: Douglas Rintoul
Set designer: Alfie Heywood
Tempest Musical Mainhouse - Pleasance London
Wildcard Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: James Meteyard
Set designer: Luke W Robson
XXXMas Carol Theatre Wolfson Studio
Wales Millennium Centre and Big Loop 		Lighting Designer Director: Duncan Hallis
Set designer: Petros Kourtellaris
Scrunch Theatre Clore Theatre
The Unicorn Theatre in association with Sarah Argent 		Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Argent
Set designer: Jennifer Taillefer
There May Be a Castle Theatre Little Angel Theatre
Little Angel Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Samantha Lane
Set designer: Ellie Mills
The Sugar House Theatre The Finborough Theatre
A Million Freds 		Lighting Designer Director: Tom Brennan
Set designer: Justin Nardella
A Place for We Theatre Park200
Park Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Michael Buffong
Set designer: Louie Whitemore
Boy's Khaya Dance Theatre Peckham, then touring
Tavaziva 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Bawren Tavaziva
Full English Theatre Kala Sangam
Bent Architect 		Lighting Designer Director: Jude Wright
Where the Bugaboo Lives Theatre Little Angel Theatre Livestream
Little Angel Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Samantha Lane
Set designer: Ellie Mills
Atlantic Theatre The Vaults - Cavern
Emma + pj 		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Clark & PJ Stanley
HOT (Helen of Troy) Theatre The Cockpit Theatre
Pinecone Performance Lab 		Lighting Designer Director: Katharina Reinthaller
Set designer: Ilayda Arden
Beneath the City Theatre Birmingham Repertory Theatre Studio
Upstart Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Tom Mansfield
Set designer: Astrid Behrens
One Million Tiny Plays About Britain Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre
Jermyn Street Theatre/The Watermill 		Lighting Designer Director: Laura Keefe
Set designer: Ceci Calf
Army of Lovers Opera The Playground Theatre
The Playground Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Biggs
Germ Free Adolescent Theatre The Bunker Theatre
Epsilon Productions & The Bunker 		Lighting Designer Director: Grace Gummer
Set designer: Lizzy Leech
IvankaPlay Theatre Belly Dancer - Underbelly
Snowy Owl 		Lighting Designer Director: Rachel Dart
Parakeet Theatre Roundabout - Summerhall
Boundless Theatre and Boom Shakalaka Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Laura Keefe
Set designer: Alex Noble
Operation Mincemeat Musical New Diorama Theatre
SpitLip 		Lighting Designer Director: SpitLip
Set designer: Helen Coyston
Fighter Theatre Stratford Circus
Lighting Designer Director: Julie Addy
Set designer: Helena Goldburg
The Elephant in the Room Dance Camden People's Theatre
Lighting Designer Set designer: Stella Backman
Out of This World Theatre Little Angel Studios
Little Angel Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Slavka Jovanovic
Set designer: Smoking Apples Theatre Company
Rattled Theatre Old Red Lion
Missmanaged Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Jemma Gross
Set designer: Florence Hazard
Prince Charming Theatre Little Angel Theatre
Little Angel Theatre & Perth Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Ross MacKay
Set designer: Ross MacKay
Kompromat Theatre Brick Hall, The Vaults
Em-Lou Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Peter Darney
Set designer: Fion Blossom
Paradise Circus Theatre The Playground Theatre
The Playground Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Biggs
Set designer: Cecilia Trono
Women of Aktion Theatre Stage@Leeds, then touring
Bent Architect 		Lighting Designer Director: Mick Martin & Jude Wright
Reflected Theatre Platform Southwark
The Milo Wladek Co. 		Lighting Designer Director: Simon Ryninks
Set designer: Emma Tompkins
High Ridin' Theatre Kings Head Theatre
Em-Lou Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Peter Darney
Set designer: Fin Redshaw
Free and Proud Theatre Theatre503 and Assembly Studio 4
Em-Lou Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Peter Darney
An Evening, A Beginning Dance Blue Elephant Theatre
KAMIENSKI 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Andre Kamienski
Director's Cut Theatre Lowry Studio, then touring
Kill The Beast 		Lighting Designer Director: Clem Garrity
Set designer: Clem Garrity
Shirleymander Theatre Playground Theatre
Playground Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Biggs
Set designer: Gregor Donnelly
Tenome - Eyes on Hand Dance Cockpit Theatre, London, then touring
Edifice Dance Theatre 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Carmine De Amicis
, Choreographer: Harriet Elizabeth Waghorn
Oath Dance Swindon Dance, then touring
Watkins Dance Company 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Anna Watkins
Female Parts: Shorts Theatre Hoxton Hall
Hoxton Hall 		Lighting Designer Director: Karena Johnson
Set designer: Libby Watson
Electra Theatre The Bunker Theatre
DumbWise 		Lighting Designer Director: John Ward
Set designer: Sam Wilde
Arnika Theatre Bridewell Theatre
Theatre Voliere 		Lighting Designer Director: Natasha Wood
This is Not a Safe Space Theatre Contact Theatre Manchester, then touring
Big Feast & Unlimited 		Lighting Designer Director: Jackie Hagan
Set designer: Kat Heath
Virtually Blackfriars Theatre Platform Southwark
The Milo Wladek Co. 		Lighting Designer Director: Simon Ryninks
Set designer: Emma Tompkins
Izindava Dance The Showroom, Chichester, then touring
Tavaziva 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Bawren Tavaziva
These Trees Are Made Of Blood Theatre Arcola Studio 1
Arcola Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Amy Draper
Set designer: Georgia Lowe and Alex Berry
Give Me Your Skin Theatre Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), London, UK, then touring
Lighting Designer Director: Tom Ross-Williams and Oonagh Murphy
The Last Ones Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre
Upstart Theatre Ltd, Jermyn Street 		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Biggs
Set designer: Cecilia Trono
The 'Neath Environmental The Vaults, London
Specifiq 		Lighting Designer Director: Oscar Blustin and Dean Rodgers
Set designer: Kat Heath
What the Circus Theatre The Garage, Norwich
Flight of the Escales 		Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Calver
Set designer: Cate Blanchard
The X Theatre Arcola Studio 2
Queer Collective 		Lighting Designer Director: Rubyyy Jones
The Drag Theatre Arcola Studio 2
Queer Collective 		Lighting Designer Director: Peter Darney
Cinderella Theatre Queen's Theatre Hornchurch
Queen's Theatre Hornchurch 		Lighting Designer Director: Martin Berry
Set designer: Mark Walters
Brrr! Theatre Canada Water Culture Space, then touring
Proteus Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Mary Swan
Set designer: Sam Pine
Muvvahood Theatre Stratford Circus, then touring
Em-Lou Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Julie Addy
Set designer: Emily Harwood
Phone Home Theatre Shoreditch Town Hall
Upstart Theatre Ltd, Pathos Munchen, Highway Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Tom Mansfield
, Director: Yannis Kalavrianos
, Director: Michael Sommer
Set designer: Hannah Sibai
A Well Remembered Voice Theatre OSO Community Arts Centre, then touring
Io Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Delyth Jones
Set designer: Florence Hazard
The Northern School Theatre Bradford Playhouse
Bent Architect 		Lighting Designer Director: Mick Martin & Jude Wright
Til Death Do Us... Dance Cockpit Theatre, London
Edifice Dance Theatre 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Harriet Elizabeth Waghorn
, Choreographer: Carmine De Amicis
Set designer: Andy Pilbeam-Brown
Lights Out Theatre Rose Theatre Kingston Studio
Page One Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Chloe Stephens
Set designer: Helen Coyston
Happy to Help Theatre Park Theatre, Park 90
Celia Dugua 		Lighting Designer Director: Roxy Cook
Set designer: Emma Tompkins
CAUTION: Safety Goggles Required Theatre Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury, then touring
Daredevil Labs 		Lighting Designer Director: Delyth Jones
Set designer: Emma Bailey
Your Last Breath Theatre The Little - Southwark Playhouse
Curious Directive 		Lighting Designer Director: Jack Lowe
Set designer: Cai Dyfan
In a Vulnerable Place Theatre The Bush Theatre
Bush Theatre and Steve Waters 		Lighting Designer Director: Boz Temple-Morris
Set designer: Georgia Lowe
10,000 Litres Dance The Place Theatre, London
Evangelia Kolyra 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Evangelia Kolyra
Set designer: Sisters From Another Mister
The State vs John Hayes Theatre King's Head Theatre
Epsilon Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Jemma Gross
Nobody's Business Theatre King's Head Theatre
King's Head 		Lighting Designer Director: John Adams
Set designer: Jamie Simmons
Pierrot Lunaire Dance Bridewell Theatre
Theatre Voliere 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Mick Wood and company
Set designer: Rūta Irbīte
Consolation Theatre Bridewell Theatre
Theatre Voliere 		Lighting Designer Director: Natasha Wood
Set designer: Rūta Irbīte
Easy for You to Say Theatre Cambridge Junction, then touring
Lighting Designer Director: Daniel Pitt
The State vs John Hayes Theatre The Main Space (Brighton Fringe)
Epsilon Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Jemma Gross
Speech Acts Opera Courtyard Theatre
Shadwell Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Jack Furness
Set designer: Georgia de Gray
These Trees Are Made Of Blood Theatre The Little - Southwark Playhouse
Theatre Bench 		Lighting Designer Director: Amy Draper
Set designer: Georgia Lowe
Lab Rat Theatre Little Angel
Genius Sweatshop 		Lighting Designer Director: Kaveh Rahnama & Alison Alexander
Set designer: Alison Alexander
This Room Theatre Battersea Arts Centre, then touring
Laura Jane Dean 		Lighting Designer Director: Laura Jane Dean & Daisy Orton
Set designer: Alison Neighbor
The Archivists Theatre Battersea Arts Centre
BAC & Edith Tankus 		Lighting Designer Director: Edith Tankus
Set designer: Sarah Mills
Dickens' Ghosts Theatre Cheltenham Playhouse
Io Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Delyth Jones
Set designer: Florence Hazard
A Christmas Carol Theatre Cheltenham Playhouse
Io Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Delyth Jones
Set designer: Florence Hazard
Faraway, So Close Theatre Old Fire Station
Tug of War Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Amy Hailwood
Set designer: Isobel Power Smith
England, Arise! Theatre Lawrence Batley Theatre, then touring
Bent Architect 		Lighting Designer Director: Jude Wright
Set designer: Barney George
Home Sweet Home Theatre Ukrainian Centre, then touring
Freedom Studios 		Lighting Designer Director: Tom Wright
Set designer: Hannah Sibai
Chicken Shop Theatre Park90
Epsilon Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Jemma Gross
Set designer: Florence Hazard
Crystal Springs Theatre Park90
Epsilon Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Jemma Gross
Set designer: Mike Lees
A Well-Remembered Voice Theatre Weston Auditorium
Io Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Delyth Jones
Set designer: Florence Hazard
Home Sweet Home Theatre Ukrainian Centre
Freedom Studios 		Lighting Designer Director: Tom Wright
Set designer: Hannah Sibai
Cat in the Cupboard Theatre Little Angel Theatre
Tiny Light 		Lighting Designer Director: Anna Tolputt
Set designer: Amy Honour
The Snow Spider Theatre Cheltenham Playhouse, then touring
Io Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Delyth Jones
Set designer: Florence Hazard
Much Ado about Nothing Theatre Park90
ACS Random 		Lighting Designer Director: Andrew Shepherd
Set designer: Zahra Mansouri
Arvoles Lloran Por Lluvia Dance Battersea Mess and Music Hall
Sefiroth 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Katarzyna Witek
Set designer: Maya Angeli
Skin Tight Theatre Park90
Epsilon Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Jemma Gross
Set designer: Jessamy Willson-Pepper
Githa Theatre York Theatre Royal Studio
The Flanagan Collective 		Lighting Designer Director: Peter Darney
After the Rainfall Theatre The Garage, then touring
Curious Directive 		Lighting Designer Director: Jack Lowe
Set designer: Georgia Lowe
Moby-Dick Theatre Arcola Studio 1
Simple8 		Lighting Designer Director: Sebastian Armesto
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Theatre Arcola Studio 2
Simple8 		Lighting Designer Director: Dudley Hinton & Sebastian Armesto
Steve and Then It Ended Theatre Theatre503
Paulden Hall Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Oscar Blustin
Set designer: Ian Latimer
The Shakespeare Conspiracy Theatre The Chelsea Theatre
ACS Random 		Lighting Designer Director: Jack Bowman
Set designer: Zahra Mansouri
TRAILER/trash Theatre Hen and Chickens
Slippery When Wet 		Lighting Designer Director: David Verrey
Set designer: Jacob Corn
ENTER Theatre Embassy Theatre
TYPT:12 		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Ekundayo Lennon
Set designer: Christopher Giles
After the Rainfall Theatre Pleasance King Dome
Curious Directive 		Lighting Designer Director: Jack Lowe
Set designer: Georgia Lowe
Camille Claudel Theatre Pleasance Beside
Footprint Project 		Lighting Designer Director: Gael le Cornec
Set designer: Sophie Mosberger
A Midsummer Night's Dream Theatre Chelsea Theatre
ACS Random 		Lighting Designer Director: Andrew Shepherd
Set designer: Zahra Mansouri
Goodnight Mrs Calabash Musical Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Ovation 		Lighting Designer Director: Racky Plews
Set designer: Simon Anthony Wells
Conquest of the South Pole Theatre Arcola Studio 1
Arcola Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Stephen Unwin
Set designer: Hayden Griffin
Tristan and Yseult Theatre Oval House
BADA 		Lighting Designer Director: Lynn Farleigh
Set designer: Becky Gunstone
Yerma Theatre Oval House
BADA 		Lighting Designer Director: Jake Murray
Set designer: Yole Lambrecht
Spring Awakening Theatre Oval House
BADA 		Lighting Designer Director: Leonie Kubigsteltig
Set designer: Signe Beckmann
Your Last Breath Theatre Ustinov Studio, then touring
Curious Directive 		Lighting Designer Director: Jack Lowe
Oh What A Lovely War Theatre Oval House
BADA 		Lighting Designer Director: Rania Jumaily
Set designer: James Turner
99% Theatre Oval House
BADA 		Lighting Designer Director: Guy Retallack
Set designer: Katie Bellman
Christmas is Miles Away Theatre Hen and Chickens
Tremers Theatre Co 		Lighting Designer Director: Tom O'Brien
Set designer: Emily Revell
Othello Theatre Chelsea Theatre
ACS Random 		Lighting Designer Director: Andrew Shepherd
Set designer: Zahra Mansouri
Bernarda Alba Musical Union Theatre
Triptic Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Katherine Hare
Set designer: Hilary Statts
Your Last Breath Theatre Pleasance King Dome
Curious Directive 		Lighting Designer Director: Jack Lowe
Snap.Catch.Slam Theatre Pleasance Beneath
Aslan Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Ben Caplan
Set designer: Beck Rainford
The Shakespeare Conspiracy Theatre Chelsea Theatre
ACS Random 		Lighting Designer Director: Chris Hislop
Set designer: Zahra Mansouri
Where the Flowers Grow Theatre Warehouse Theatre
Prussia Lane Productions Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Jeffrey Kissoon
Set designer: Heike Scharrer
Edges Musical Landor Theatre
Notion Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Katherine Hare
Set designer: Hilary Statts
Mysterious Skin Theatre Theatre 36 & Drill Hall
Em-Lou Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Peter Darney
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07929 777961
Email address

sherrycoenen@gmail.com