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Biography

West End Design includes:
Sign of the Times (The Duchess); Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train (Trafalgar Studios); Tiger that came to Tea (The Vaudeville); We are going on a Bear Hunt (The Duchess); Stop Messing About (Leicester Square Theatre); Ying Tong – A Walk with the Goons (The Ambassadors); Bat Boy - The Musical (The Shaftesbury & West Yorkshire Playhouse); Members Only (Trafalgar Studios); Missing Persons: Four Tragedies and Roy Keane (Trafalgar Studios & Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh); Berkoff’s Women (The Ambassadors); Cooking with Elvis (The Whitehall); Round The Horne …Revisited and Round The Horne …Revisited 2 (The Venue & UK Tours) and Under the Doctor (The Comedy).

Other Design Includes:
Mr Stink (UK Tour); Every Coin & The Archbishop and the Anarchist (Soho Studio); Sign of the Times (Windsor Theatre Royal & UK No.1 Tour); Romeo & Juliet (Exeter Northcott / Ludlow Festival); Tiger That Came to Tea (No.1 UK Tour); Going On a Bear Hunt (No.1 UK Tour & Duchess Theatre West End); Girls Behind (No.1 UK Tour); Stop Messing About (The Rose Theatre, Kingston); Steptoe & Son (Plymouth & No.1 UK Tour); Blue Orange (Watford Palace); The Flu Season, Habitats (The Gate); The Man Who (Orange Tree Theatre); Peter Pan (Churchill Theatre, Bromley); Falstaff, Hansell and Gretel (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London); Tuesday’s Child (Hampstead Theatre Studio); The Way of The World (Royal Theatre , Northampton / Wiltons Music Hall); The Weir, Waiting for Godot, Arcadia (Royal Theatre Northampton); Master Harold…and the Boys, Burn, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Southwark Playhouse); The Long Road (Soho); On The Waterfront (Wimbledon Studio); Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Opera House Jersey & Gaiety Theatre, Isle of Man); Many Roads To Paradise (The Finborough); Bleach/Hostage (Theatre 503); Girls Night (UK Tour); The Lesson, The Merchant of Venice (Arcola Theatre); Small Miracle, Death of a Salesman, She Stoops to Conquer, Miss Julie, Blue Sky State, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Betrayal, Brass Balls, Our Country’s Good, (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Souterrain (Wildworks in Colchester); Romeo and Juliet (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton/Arundel Festival); The Emperor and the Nightingale (The Watermill, Newbury); Snow Shoes (The Drum, Plymouth / UK Tour); La Traviata (Duchy Opera).

Tony has worked extensively as an Associate Lighting Designer in London and on tour, productions including the National Theatre’s Life x 3 and An Inspector Calls (both West End & various No.1 UK Tours); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (West End); Amadeus (West End, No.1 UK Tours, New York & Los Angeles); The Woman in Black (various No.1 UK Tours); The Weir (Royal Court No.1 UK Tours, Sicily & Australia); The Shape of Things (West End); Patsy Cline – The Musical (West End and No.1 UK Tours)Peter Pan – The British Musical (West End); Tapping Harlem ( UK No.1 Tour) and most recently Hobson’s Choice (Chichester & No.1 UK Tour). Tony has also toured with the RSC, Welsh National Opera and the Royal Opera House.

Tony is a professional designer member of the Association of Lighting Designers and spent 5 years as a Lighting Designer and lecturer for Central School of Speech and Drama and is currently a lecturer for Birkbeck, University if London. He is also a review committee member for the National Council for Drama Training and served for eight years on the British Actors Equity Theatre Designers Committee.

Tony is currently working for English National Opera.

Representation: Tony is represented by Giles Smart at United Agents
www.unitedagents.co.uk/tony-simpson