Andy Purves
Biography
Lighting designer, re-lighter and creative technician working primarily in visual and movement-based theatre, circus and on projects in found space.
Andy trained in sound and lighting engineering at the University of Derby and has an MA in lighting design and theatre-making from Central School of Speech and Drama, where he also tutors in lighting.
Lighting design projects include: Love Song (Frantic Assembly); The Arrival (Tamasha); Beautiful Burnout (Frantic Assembly/National Theatre of Scotland; Stockholm (Sydney Theatre Company/Frantic Assembly); Babel (Stan Won't Dance); The Erpingham Camp (Hydrocracker/Brighton Festival); Ida Barr and Office Party (Barbican); Frankenstein (Northampton Royal); Home Inverness (National Theatre of Scotland); Outre and Ren-Sa (Array).
He has toured extensively with Propeller, Spymonkey, Frantic Assembly and The National Theatre of Scotland and has worked for Circus Space, Brighton Festival, Company FZ, Tangere Arts, Greenwich and Docklands Festival and on La Clique/La Soiree at The Roundhouse and in the West End.