Aaron J Dootson
Lighting Designer

Aaron graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in 2009 where he studied Lighting Design and Practice qualifying with a distinction. Aaron is freelance lighting designer specialising in theatre, based mainly in London.

Romeo & Juliet

Upstairs at the Gatehouse

One Stop Arts

'This was joined with colourfully moody lighting and brought a well-deserved thoughtful and reflective mood to the room'

By Heather Deacon

Broken News

New Wimbledon Studio

A Younger Theatre

'Helen Coyston and Aaron J Dootson’s design and lighting for Broken News work perfectly at creating atmosphere and picking out the details within Whyment’s direction'

By Jake Orr

Not About Heroes

Lion & Unicorn Theatre

The British Theatre Guide

'partly no doubt to emphasise Aaron J Dootson's often dim and always atmospheric lighting which helps take the action from a Scottish hillside to the muddy trenches'

By Howard Loxton

Remotegoat

'This is a brilliant and very moving play and is sympathetically directed by Alex Brown and susperbly lit by Aaron J Dootson'

By Aline Waites

Only

Bristol Old vic Studio

Guide To Bristol

'The lighting is sharp and effective; it adds a visual element to Peck’s warm or cold memories'

By Beth Glanvill

The Wall

New End Theatre

The British Theatre Guide

'aided by Aaron J Dootson's gently modulated lighting, helps conjure up the heat that troubles David'

Death Of A Nightingale

New End Theatre

Extra Extra

'Aaron J Dootson’s lighting was spot-on throughout, sympathetically bringing the mood up and subduing it whenever required'

By Alex Harrod

74 Georgia Avenue

Northern Outlet Theatre Company

The New Current

'Aaron J Dootson’s lighting echoed the cold, unreality of the past through the siluets of the dead. It put across its sinister lifelessness'

By Patrick Wheatley

Tape

Northern Outlet Theatre Company

Whats on stage Manchester reviewer

'a pillar in the Downstairs Theatre at the Taurus Bar is incorporated into the set of a shabby hotel room and Aaron J Dootson lights the limited space so as to indicate changes in time and place'

Dave Cunningham

Siren

Chilling Out Theatre

Fringe Report

'The set is simple – bed, chair, window, a few other bits and pieces – but it’s stylishly done, and the lighting too, with the single spot highlighting the Venetian blind gave a point of focus where too often in small theatre spaces (where sets have to be changed quickly) this is overlooked.'

The British Theatre Guide

'Designer Aaron J. Dootson has set it with elegant simplicity, a hanging louvered blind, a big pristine bed, one white table for champagne and glasses and an expensive looking chair, and he lights it attractively.'

Review by Howard Loxton