Hansjorg Schmidt

Biography

Image from Beautiful Octopus Club
Lighting by Hansjorg Schmidt
Beautiful Octopus Club, Heart 'n Soul, October 2006

Hansjorg lights for a wide variety of fields and clients. He particularly enjoys creating and developing new work, often for non-theatre audiences.

Recent credits:

West End: The Next Big Thing (New Players Theatre), Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (The Venue).

Off-West End: Performances (Wilton’s Music Hall), The Death of Gogol and the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest (Drill Hall), Children of Hercules (The Scoop), Misery (Kings Head), Measure for Measure (Riverside Studios).

Regional and touring: Red Ladies (clod ensemble), Billy Liar, Around the World in 80 Days (Liverpool Playhouse), The Dreaming Place (The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath), Hospitalworks (theatre-rites, London and Theater der Welt, Stuttgart), Master Harold…and the boys (Liverpool Everyman), Pat and Margaret (Salisbury Playhouse), A Perfect Ganesh (Watford Palace), Pal Joey (Nottingham Playhouse), Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (English Shakespeare Company).

Other projects: Light Sculpture and exterior lighting commissions for Goldsmiths College, University of London. Jessica Ogden Collection SS06, for London Fashion Week at Sunbeam Studios, The Beautiful Octopus Club and Lizzie Emeh, for Heart ’n Soul at the Deptford Albany.

More info on www.hansjorgschmidt.com