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England, United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

Design Lead on major international lighting projects, and exploring the integration of light art, live event design & magic into the built environment.

Worldwide

International tour. Lighting & Projection Design for Scored in Silence, a dance piece about the hidden perspectives of deaf hibakusha – the survivors of the atom bombs that fell in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

London, England, United Kingdom

Mark of A Woman: a piece about female tattooing, integrating movement, light, projection, sound & vibration. Developed at The Southbank Centre, The Place and Pavilion Dance South West

Using magic as a therapeutic tool for people living with a variety of physical and mental health conditions.

London, England, United Kingdom

Patrick McDowell x Guildhall
London Fashion Week AW24

Creative Director: Patrick McDowell
Art Director & Stylist: Jaime Moreno
Pianist, Conductor & Arranger: Gavin Roberts
Lighting Design: Jon M Armstrong & Rob Pell-Walpole
Sound designer: Ben Collins
Production Management: Clare Partington & Dylan Bate

Scarborough, England, United Kingdom

Light art installation: the spaces in between

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Design & exhibition of 4 new pieces of installation art

New York, United States

Delivered a workshop on the integration of lighting design and magic

Barbican, England, United Kingdom

Lighting Designer for OrchestRAM 2, transferring to the world-famous Barbican Hall, London.

Utrecht, Netherlands

the spaces in between. A light art installation commissioned for an international festival.

The Place, London

Lighting design for an R&D project involving BSL, visual vernacular, projection, sound & vibration design.

Rochester

Lighting design for The Making of Mr Dickens, a permanent exhibition at Guildhall Museum, Rochester.

Working on a large-scale permanent intervention for English Heritage.

Tower Bridge, London

Tower Bridge: 125 Years of London's Defining Landmark
An architectural installation deep within Tower Bridge, merging video and lighting technologies.

London, United Kingdom

Providing over-dinner entertainment and insights into attention, suspense & play for senior corporate and banking clients.

LD for film version of Scored in Silence.

Museum Of London

Beasts of London: A 10-month long immersive exhibition, charting the history of London as told by its animals. It is told across 10 spaces, merging projection mapping, scenic design, light and storytelling.

**** Evening Standard
**** Londonist
**** Daily Telegraph
**** Culture Whisper

London, United Kingdom

A full-day workshop, playfully investigating the links between magic and communication.

Leipzig Area, Germany

Lighting the re-mount of Remnants for Euro Scene Leipzig theatre festival.

Four singers and a solo dancer lead the audience in an extraordinary auditory excavation, unearthing the songs and stories of love and loss, buried in the soil of post-war Bosnia.

Director: Patrick Eakin Young
LD: Burke Brown

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Toujours et Pres Des Mois, a Pepper’s Ghost opera

Tower Bridge

Blackout - a site specific installation taking place in the chambers below Tower Bridge.

Barbican Estate

Architectural & performance lighting for a site specific performance around the Barbican estate.
Dir. Brodie Ross

London, United Kingdom

Design and build of a time travelling microwave for a touring production.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Simply Told's work combines theatre, installation, magic and storytelling. The company is an Associate Artist of Greenwich Theatre, and its work has been supported by the Arts Council England, Battersea Arts Centre, British Science Festival, Canterbury International Festival and Brighton & Hove Council, amongst many others.

Worldwide

Roles include Lighting Designer and Programmer, Production & Technical Stage Manager, Sound Recordist, AV Designer.

I have worked in theatre, film and corporate, in places including America, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Switzerland.

Various

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

LD and projection mapping for Passages of Time, a new piece of dance commissioned by the Brighton Digital Festival.

London, United Kingdom

PM for Cargo, premiering at the Arcola Theatre

London, United Kingdom

Facilitating workshops for young people. Subjects have included presentation skills, devising, magic and stage management.

London, United Kingdom

Touring with Ada Ada Ada, a show about Ada Lovelace, inventor of modern computing, told with the help of dress made from 4,400 LEDs.

Pavilion Theatre, Worthing

Immersive musical theatre production across multiple spaces.

Creating magic effects for Medea: An Electronica Musical

Brighton, United Kingdom

Devising and running Magic School, a course for 7-9 and 9-11 year olds.

Co-running workshops on digital theatre making.

The Devil Speaks True: an immersive one-man Macbeth, premiering at the Vault Festival, London.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Devising and performing Seance - An Evening of Spiritual Delights. A recreation of a Victorian Seance deep within the heart of the 200-year old Theatre Royal.

Kew Gardens

Co-running the NYT Technical Course

Creating bespoke interactive seance experiences for a product launch.

Designing magic effects for the touring production of Roald Dahl and the Imagination Seekers

NT Connections festival

Bristol, United Kingdom

Series of experimental solo performances.

London, United Kingdom

Teaching magic to children and helping them devise a piece of Halloween theatre based on these skills.

Saudi Arabia

Technical Director for first piece of site specific theatre in Saudi.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Delivering Everyday Life unit for Music, Film & Media undergraduates.

London, United Kingdom

Devising immersive psychological magic effects for Better Than Life; a NESTA-funded R&D project exploring agency in live and online audiences. Illusions included a live and streamed disappearance, and a manifestation of automatic writing.

More info at http://coneyhq.org/2013/10/30/better-than-life/

Natural History Museum

Speaking about Magic, Suggestion and Experience Design at the AHRC's SciCulture event.

Lectures include:
History of stage architectures
Theatre's changing relationship to its audience
The strange and entwined history of stage technology and magic.

Designing magic effects for Dissolve Theatre’s Spark, performed at the Vault Festival Feb 2014.

London, United Kingdom

Illusion design for the pantomime Puss in Boots

London, United Kingdom

Illusion design for the pantomime Robin Hood

Manchester, United Kingdom

Creating a bespoke immersive performance entitled Inside The Memory Palace for the Dark Matters event, part of the Wellcome Collection's touring exhibition Brains: The Mind as Matter. The experience allowed participants to build their own memory palaces and possibly inhabit another person’s memories.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Invited to participate in the world's first Magic Hack, bringing together magicians and technologists to create new effects.

Part time lecturing in lighting design, stagecraft, AV, creative writing, collaborative practice and production management.

London, United Kingdom

Devising, sourcing and developing effects for Robin Hood, Greenwich Theatre Pantomime. Illusions include arrow catch, a levitation and mid-air vanish, followed by reappearance in the audience.

Nationwide Tour

Directing, and devising effects for, The Turing Project - an immersive, site-specific performance set in a 1940s listening post, which explores the life and work of Alan Turing. Developed at BAC London and The Basement Brighton.

May 2012. Gogol, by Richard Crane. Director, Faynia Williams.

May 2011. Dancing With Demons by Richard Crane, a site-specific piece about the Ballets Ruses

May 2010. World premiere of I Am A Warehouse by Richard Crane, a site-specific performance at Newhaven Fort

Lecturer in Scenography. Design, delivery and assessment of an extension studies unit for students from a variety of disciplines.

United Kingdom

Directing, and devising effects for, The Alpha Project - an immersive, site-specific performance which explored beliefs in psychic ability. Developed in conjunction with Greenwich Theatre and Professor Richard Wiseman, the experience was installed in a variety of unusual spaces, including a converted coach station in Brighton, a Victorian warehouse in.

National

National tour of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

Nationwide

Co-wrote and produced national tour of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent. Also created and delivered a programme of workshops, talks and audience development events relating to the production.

Switzerland

German language premiere of Taking Care of Baby, by Dennis Kelly. Director Caro Thum, Dramaturg Karl Baratta.

London, United Kingdom

Writing, and devising effects for, Summerland, a play about the strange friendship between Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. Developed with Greenwich Theatre London. Effects include recreations of Victorian séances and a version of Houdini’s famous Substitution Trunk effect, developed with Professor Richard Wiseman.

Various

National tour of Samuel Beckett’s Mercier & Camier. European premiere, supported by Arts Council England’s Year of The Artist and the Foxrock Foundation.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Building Magical Experiences With Light

Performance Architecture Summer School

Ma, Dramatic Writing

Dissertation: Re-Imagining the Victorian Seance as Spirit Theatre

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Human Geography