Rob Halliday
Biography
Rob began his lighting career with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
As a lighting designer, his recent work includes The Wizard of OZ on tour in the US (with Bob Bonniol), Daddy Cool in the West End and Berlin, Titanic at the Shaw Theatre, the recent UK and current US tours of My Fair Lady (with David Hersey and Oliver Fenwick; winner of the Touring Broadway 2008 award for Best Production), the UK tour of Equus (with David Hersey, nominated for the 2008 TMA Lighting Award), the Russian Romance concerts in London and St Petersburg, and The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Neuss Festival in Germany.
He has lit the Royal Academy of Music's showcase musicals for the most of the last decade, productions there including A My Name Is Alice, A Chorus Line, Cabaret, A Little Night Music, The Baker's Wife, The Wiz, Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods, Happy End, City of Angels, Jane Eyre, Oh What A Lovely War and Sweet Charity.
For LAMDA, he has lit Candide, Kiss Me Kate, Maggie May, The Fix, City of Angels and Hair.
Other designs include Our Country's Good for Guildhall, The Recruiting Officer in Colchester, Hamlet in Neuss, Is There Life After High School at the Bridewell and Groping For Trouts In A Peculiar River at BAC, which was nominated for the London Fringe Lighting Award.
Rob also works as a Lighting Programmer, translating other lighting designer's visions into the practicalities of modern day automated lighting rigs; in this role his shows have included the Tony-award nominated Equus, Footloose, Guys and Dolls, Mary Poppins, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Anything Goes, Ragtime, Oklahoma!, Oliver! and many others in the UK and around the world.
Rob has lectured at trade shows including PLASA and LDI, and drama colleges including LAMDA, NIDA and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.
He writes regularly for a range of lighting industry publications, including Lighting+Sound International, Lighting+Sound America, Lighting Dimensions and Live Design. His first books, Entertainment in Production vols 1 & 2, collect together the best of these articles from 1994-1999 and 2000-2006; they are available now from Entertainment Technology Press.