Katy is a Lighting Designer based in Cardiff who has designed for many theatre companies in South Wales, London and beyond. She has recently worked on Woof at Sherman Theatre, which follows her Christmas season at the venue lighting both Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood/Yr Hugan Fach Goch; Exodus, which was her second design for Wales-based company Motherlode and follows from the success of The Good Earth, which received 5-star reviews and enjoyed an off-Broadway run in New York to critical acclaim. She also designed three shows as part of National Theatre Wales’ NHS70 season.

Her work has also included associate roles and touring as a Re-lighter for other designers, as well as Lighting Designer for Venue 13 at the Edinburgh Fringe, and also as a Production Supervisor and lighting tutor at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

She was a member of the Production Team at Sherman Cymru for over 7 years.

Lighting Design/Cynllun Goleuadau

Woof, Alice in Wonderland, Little Red Riding Hood /Yr Hugan Fach Goch (Sherman Theatre); Exodus, The Good Earth(Motherlode); Peggy’s Song, For All I Care, Come Back Tomorrow, The Big Democracy Project (National Theatre Wales); Crouch,Touch, Pause, Engage (NTW & Out of Joint); Seanmhair, Play/Silence, Sand, St Nicholas, Constellation Street, A Good Clean Heart (The Other Room); Escape the Scaffold (The Other Room & Theatre 503); Sinners Club (The Other Room, Gagglebabble & Theatr Clwyd); 35 Times (Mercury Theatre Wales); Looking Through Glass (difficult|stage); Birdsong (Sinfonia Cymru/Kizzy Crawford/Gwilym Simcock); The Island Nation (Ice & Fire); The Terrible Things I've Done (Invisible Ink); Kommilitonen (WNO Youth); Barnbow Canaries (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Play/Silence, Sand, St Nicholas, Constellation Street (The Other Room); Yuri (August 021); The Good Earth (Motherlode); A Good Clean Heart (The Other Room); Crouch, Touch, Pause...Engage (National Theatre Wales & Out of Joint); The Frozen Scream (WMC & Birmingham Hippodrome); Roberto Zucco (August012); Sue the Second Coming (Dafydd James Company); Diary of a Madman, Sexual Perversity in Chicago (also Production Manager/Stage Manager, Living Pictures), Miss Julie (Living Pictures); Corina Pavlova and the Lion's Roar, The Snow Tiger/Teigr yr Eira (Sherman Cymru); Pornography, Serious Money (Waking Exploits); Last Christmas, After the End (Dirty Protest); Unbuttoned (also Production Manager, Sinfonia Cymru); Snow Child/Plentyn yr Eira (Sherman Cymru/Theatr Iolo).

Associate Designer

Jekyll & Hyde (Drew McOnie Company at The Old Vic. Associate to Lighting Designer Richard Howell.)

Touring Relighter/Ail-oleuwr Teithiol

Jane Wenham, The Witch of Walkern (Out of Joint, Des: Richard Howell); Our Country's Good (UK and international tour, Out Of Joint, Des: Johanna Town); The Epic Adventures of Nhamo the Manyika Warrior and His Sexy Wife Chipo (Tiata Fahodzi, Des: Paul Keogan); Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (Talawa Theatre/National Theatre, Des: Johanna Town); The Bloody Ballad (also Stage Manager, Gagglebabble Theatre, Des: Jane Laljee); Tiddler and other Terrific Tales, Stick Man (Scamp Theatre, Des: Elanor HIggins); Mission to Mars (also Production Manager, Unlimited Theatre, Des: Ben Pacey); Gadael Yr Ugeinfed Ganrif, Yr Argae (Sherman Cymru, Des: Elanor Higgins)