Alex Forey
Biography
Alex’s work as lighting designer includes: Polyeucte (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Libuše, Rhapsody, From Here To Eternity (Bloomsbury Theatre), Babel (Lyric Hammersmith), over ten shows for Wimbledon College of Arts including Killology, Network, and Three Sisters; Into The Woods, Exhibition (Shaw Theatre), Daisy Pulls It Off, Written on the Body (Cockpit Theatre), Songs for a New World (Drayton Arms), The Piper of Hamelin (Rose Kingston), Grey Matter, Twelfth Night (Edinburgh Fringe). As associate lighting designer: Quintessential (Peacock Theatre, Sadler’s Wells), Legally Blonde, The Drowsy Chaperone, RENT (Pleasance), Modern Love (Etcetera Theatre). As assistant/relighter: Growl (Curve Leicester, and tour), as assistant: Parade, Legend Trippers, Anything Goes (The Other Palace). He is a graduate from RADA where he specialised in Lighting Design. Previously he studied at University College London before switching to drama full-time. He was awarded the Vectorworks Design Entertainment Scholarship in 2021, and two UCL Design Awards. In between designs, Alex has worked as a technician for Ammonite (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Back To The Future The Musical, The Mirror and the Light), and at Wyndham’s Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Donmar Warehouse, the Lyric Hammersmith, and elsewhere.
Specialisms
- West End
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
- Fringe / Pub Theatre
- Education Establishment
- West End
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
- Small Scale / Fringe
- Education Establishment
- Small scale
- Education Establishment
Previous productions
| Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative Team | Opened | |
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| The Creation | Concert |
St John's Smith Square
Scherzo Ensemble |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Matthew O'Keefe |
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| Hide and Seek | Theatre |
Park Theatre - Park90
Park Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Carlotta Brentan Set designer: Constance Comparot |
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| 21 Round for Christmas | Theatre |
Park Theatre - Park90
Park Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Toby Hampton Set designer: Toby Hampton and Laurel Marks |
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| Sleeping Beauty | Theatre |
Mercury Theatre
Mercury Theatre |
Associate Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Matt Ladkin Director: Ryan McBryde Set designer: Jasmine Swan |
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| The Realness | Musical |
The Big House Theatre
The Big House |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Maggie Norris |
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| Seize the Cheese! | Musical |
New Wimbledon Studio
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Lighting Designer |
Director: Mike Stocks |
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| The Island | Theatre |
Cervantes Theatre
Cervantes Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jessica Lazar |
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| Battersea Bardot | Musical |
New Wimbledon Studio
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Lighting Designer |
Director: Elizabeth Huskisson Set designer: Emily Munt |
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| waiting for a train at the bus stop | Theatre |
Summerhall, Edinburgh
Visual Sauce |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Mwansa Phiri |
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| Oh The Horror! | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
innominate |
Lighting Designer | |||
| Purgatorio: Post-Traumatic Growth in Penge | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
Wimbledon College of Art |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Natasha Harrison Set designer: Anna Williams |
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| Air Time | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
Wimbledon College of Art |
Lighting Designer | |||
| Paradiso: Eden | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
Wimbledon College of Art |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Shane Dempsey Set designer: Anna Williams |
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| Face Down in the Dirt | Theatre |
King's Head Theatre
Take My Word |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Lauren Carter |
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| Kitty in the Lane | Theatre |
Brockley Jack
Studio Perform |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Áine Ryan Set designer: Constance Comparot |
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| Our Father | Theatre |
Barons Court Theatre
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Lighting Designer |
Director: Mo Korede Set designer: Ieva Ievina |
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| Good Day | Theatre |
Network Theatre, Vault Festival
Double Telling |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Marlie Haco Set designer: Justin Nardella |
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| Saint Hildegard | Theatre |
Pit, The Vaults
Bound By Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Kristin Winters |
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| Paddy Goes to Petra | Theatre |
Brockley Jack Theatre
Studio Perform |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Áine Ryan Set designer: Constance Comparot |
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| Ghislaine/Gabler | Theatre |
The Playground Theatre
Bound By Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Kristin Winters |
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| Black el Payaso | Opera |
Cervantes Theatre
Cervantes Theatre |
Associate Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Lucia Sánchez Roldán Director: Paula Paz Set designer: Caitlin Abbott |
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| Message in a Clay River | Theatre |
Cockpit Theatre
Imagiphoria Studios |
Lighting Designer | Set designer: Ieva Ievina | ||
| Ghislaine/Gabler | Theatre |
The Coronet Theatre
Bound By Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Kristin Winters |
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| Till Death Do We Part | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
SnapFuse Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jodie Leigh Armstrong & Lara van Huyssteen |
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| Killology | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
KMT Productions |
Lighting Designer | |||
| Mums | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
Psychonaut Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Karola Kosecka |
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| Honey Badger | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
Wimbledon College of Art |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Juraj Benko |
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| Cry-Baby | Musical |
Avondale Theatre
Italia Conti |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Benji Sperring |
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| Carrie | Musical |
Avondale Theatre
Italia Conti |
Lighting Designer |
Director: David Willoughby |
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| Footloose | Musical |
Avondale Theatre
Italia Conti |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Dean Johnson |
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| Three Sisters | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
Wimbledon College of Art / Lyric Hammersmith |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Alessandra Davison Set designer: Sonya Smullen |
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| Electra | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
Wimbledon College of Art / Lyric Hammersmith |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Mo Korede Set designer: Ieva Ievina |
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| The Importance of Being Earnest | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
Wimbledon College of Art / Lyric Hammersmith |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Samara Gannon Set designer: Fiona Wagstaff |
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| Yerma | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art
Wimbledon College of Art / Lyric Hammersmith |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jessica Mensah Set designer: Raffi Philcox |
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| Julius Caesar | Theatre |
Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre (RADA)
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Che Walker Set designer: Anita Gander |
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| Wonders Beyond Numbers | Theatre |
Bloomsbury Theatre
|
Lighting Designer |
Director: Johnny Ball |
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| Monster | Theatre |
John Gielgud Theatre (RADA)
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Dadiow Lin Set designer: Isabel Nellie Walters |
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| Daisy Pulls It Off | Theatre |
Cockpit Theatre
The Bridge TTC |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jasmine Teo |
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| Red Velvet | Theatre |
Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre (RADA)
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
Lighting Programmer |
Lighting designer: Roberto Esquenazi Alkabez Director: Anni Domingo Set designer: Natalie Pryce |
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| Graduate Tree | Theatre |
Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre (RADA)
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) |
Lighting Designer | |||
| Manifestos | Theatre |
RADA Studios, London
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) |
Lighting Designer | |||
| Growl | Musical |
Curve Theatre Leicester
NYMT |
Assistant Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Zoe Spurr Director: Richard Fitch Set designer: Richard Cooper |
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| Libuše | Opera |
Bloomsbury Theatre
UCOpera |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Cecilia Stinton Set designer: Holly Muir |
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| Songs For A New World | Musical |
The Drayton Arms Theatre
UCLMTS |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Suriyah Rashid |
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| Rhapsody | Concert |
Bloomsbury Theatre
UCL Live Music |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Björn Franke |
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| Polyeucte | Opera |
Theatre Royal Stratford East
UCOpera |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Thomas Guthrie Set designer: Raphaé Memon |
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| Into The Woods | Musical |
Shaw Theatre
UCLMTS |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Olivia Burgin Set designer: Arya Bhomick |
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| Babel | Theatre |
Lyric Hammersmith Studio
SPASM |
Lighting Designer | |||
| Written on Skin | Theatre |
Cockpit Theatre
Rich Creative |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Emily Warren et al |
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| A Sexual Odyssey | Theatre |
Cockpit Theatre
Rich Creative |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Emily Warren et al |
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| Grey Matter | Theatre |
C venues (Edinburgh)
SPASM |
Lighting Designer |
| Contact method | Details |
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| Email address | hello@alexforey.com |
| X | @alexforey |