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Biography

Ben Payne – Lighting Designer

Ben trained with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, joining in 1995 as one of its youngest ever technical members.

Design credits include: Cymbeline (Dir Sir Trevor Nunn), Depot (Mercury Theatre, Colchester) A Chorus of Disapproval (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich), Waters Edge (Arcola Theatre) Peter Pan (First Family/Manchester Opera House/Sunderland Empire), Yours Abundantly (Oval House Theatre, London), Rent (Pleasance Theatre, Islington) Lucky Stiff (Greenwich Theatre), London Studio Centre’s Intoto Dance and Jazz Company 2006 - 2009 (Royal Opera House/Peacock Theatre/National Tours), Dance Overtures (Wimbledon & Peacock Theatre), Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Mother Goose (Gaiety, Dublin), Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk, 12th Night(Stafford Gatehouse), Waiting for Godot, A Dolls House (Horseshoe Theatre Company), Ask for the Moon (Mountview Theatre School), Medea, The Tempest, The Duchess of Malfi, Aladdin, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Oedipus the King, Jack and the Beanstalk (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Here we are again (Players Theatre), Paul Bunyan (Anglia Opera), Macbeth (Creation Theatre Company), Tommy (YAC), Green for Danger, Crooked Wood, Gaslight, Murder Mistaken, The Lady Vanishes, Private Lives, Dick Barton, The Browning Version, Outside Edge, Dames at Sea, Funny Money, Wait until Dark, Don't Look now, Double Double, I'll be back before midnight, The Old Ladies, Time and Time again, (Jill Freud & Company)

Production Electrician and Associate Lighting Designer work includes: Havanna Rakatan (Australia Tour/UK West End) Othello (Trafalgar Studios) Treasure Island (Haymarket, West End), Margurite (Haymarket, West End), The Hobbit (National Tour), Hay Fever, The Contractor (Oxford Stage Company/National Tours), Mack and Mabel (National Tour/ Criterion, West End) My Fair Lady (Esplanade, Singapore), Tracy Beaker (Nottingham Playhouse/National Tour), Vincent in Brixton, Angel House (New Wolsey, Ipswich/National Tour), Henri Oguike Dance Company (National Tour)

Ben is also Lighting Consultant to the London International Festival of Theatre, Production Manager for Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company and runs Illuminate Design Ltd, a company specialising in production management for dance in the UK. More details can be found at www.benpayne.net