Lighting Designer

Howard Hudson

The Flying Dutchman

Biography

Opera and Dance credits include Strauss’s Ariadne Auf Naxos (Opera Bologna, La Fenice); Verdi’s Rigoletto; Kurt Weill’s Street Scene (Opera North); George Benjamin’s Written On Skin (Opera Philadelphia); Gavin Higgins’ The Monstrous Child; Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Linbury, Royal Opera House); Rossini’s The Barber of Seville; Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park (Grange Festival); The Barber of Seville, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride; Offenbach’s Fantasio; Beethoven’s Fidelio; Offenbach’s Vert-Vert (Garsington Opera); Strauss’s Die Fledermaus; Delibes’s Lakmé and Puccini’s La Boheme (Opera Holland Park

Starlight Express (Troubadour); & Juliet (West End - Olir nomination & winner of Whatsonstage Award, Broadway – Tony nomination for Best Lighting Design, Australia, UK Tour, Germany, US Tour); ); A Chorus Line (Curve Theatre, UK Tour, Saddler’s Wells); Just For One Day (Old Vic/Toronto); The Little Big Things (West End); In Dreams (Leeds Playhouse/Toronto);  When Winston Went to War With the Wireless (Donmar Warehouse); Stumped (Hampstead/UK Tour What’s New Pussycat? (Birmingham Rep); Titanic (UK & World Tours); Orlando (Michael Grandage Company, West End); Blackmail (Mercury Theatre); 9 to 5 (West End, UK & Australia); Tell Me On A Sunday (UK Tour); The Phantom of the Opera (Oslo, Bucharest & Athens); Strictly Ballroom (West End); Romeo & Juliet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, West End); Guys and Dolls; Kiss Me Kate (Sheffield Crucible); Gaslight; Strangers On A Train (UK Tour); 101 Dalmatians; The Little Shop of Horrors; On The Town (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾: The Musical (West End, Menier Chocolate Factory, Leicester Curve).

February 2025.