Jake Wiltshire
Biography
Lighting Credits.
Don Giovanni for Opera Faber at Teatro Diego Bernardes, Portugal, revived for Vigo Opera at Caixanova Cultural Centre, Spain ; Hansel Und Gretel, La Calisto, The Rape of Lucretia, Rinaldo and The Choice of Hercules for Royal Academy Opera; Carmen for ENO Baylis; Don Giovanni for Amersham Festival of Music; Opera Tableaux (RAO); Nudge for Underhand Productions (Canal Café Theatre, Pleasance London, Cockpit Theatre and Edinburgh); Shamlet (Canal Cafe, Edinburgh); Swallow for Wicked Theatre (Edinburgh Fringe First nominee); Lucky Stiff (Canal Cafe); The Consultants (Perrier Award winner 2002) Gary Le Strange (Perrier Award winner 2003);The Bing Show (Canal Café and Edinburgh) and NewsRevue (2000 - 2003, including the 25th anniversary Guinness World Record gala performance.
For the Royal Academy of Music: Sets of Vocal Faculty Opera Scenes with excerpts from Fedora, Billy Budd, L'egisto, Hamlet, Faust, Giulio Cesare, Don Pasquale, Il Barbiere di Seviglia directors including John Copley, Jamie Hayes,John Ramster, Mark Hathaway, Rob Kearley; Royal Academy’s Musical Theatre Showcase; Peter Maxwell Davis Festival including Missa super l'Homme Arme and Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire directed by Karen Rabinowitz; Johnny Berliner and RAMSU Orchestra (Duke’s Hall) Maxim Vengerov's Ferdinand the Bull and Tango from Yusupov's concerto.
Jake has lit extensively for Tigco Productions including the critically acclaimed Tuesdays (Albany); Plat du Nuit (London, Norwich, Edinburgh); Square Balls (Canal Café, Hen and Chickens); Sword of Maximum Damage (Albany) ; Victor (Pleasance Edinburgh) and most recently, Alpha Males and Rogue males (Wimbledon studio and Pleasance Edinburgh)
Jake also works as the Technical Theatre Manager for RAO and RAM and has overseen all technical aspects of the Academy’s recent productions including A Night at the Chinese Opera, Cendrillon, Dardanus, Il Mondo Della Luna, Into the Woods, La Finta Giardiniera, Magic Flute, Figaro, Grand Hotel and Sweeney Todd.
Jakes recently became an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (HonARAM)
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