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Lighting Designer

Richard
Howell

Richard’s recent projects include: The Real Thing at The Old Vic, Passing Strange and Nachtland at Young Vic, and A Dolls House, Chariots of Fire and A Doll’s House at Sheffield Crucible.

Among his credits are Jekyll & Hyde (Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre); Dr Semmelweis (Harold Pinter Theatre / Bristol Old Vic); Village Idiot (Theatre Royal Stratford East / UK Tour); Tartuffe, Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well (Royal Shakespeare Company); The House of ShadesThe Writer (Almeida Theatre); Aristocrats, Privacy (Donmar); Assassins, The Country Wife (Chichester Festival Theatre); I See You (Royal Court); Pinter 5 & 6 (Harold Pinter); Glengarry Glen Ross (Playhouse Theatre/UK Tour); Bad Jews (Theatre Royal / Bath Arts / West End / UK Tour); Killer Joe, East is East, The Homecoming (Trafalgar Studios); Black Love, NW Trilogy (Kiln); Closer, God of Carnage (Lyric Hammersmith); Breaking The Code, A Doll's House, Little Shop of Horrors, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Labyrinth (Hampstead Theatre); Faustus, The Glass Menagerie (Headlong, UK Tour); The Grinning ManThe Crucible, Cabaret (Gothenburg Opera); Flight (Scottish Opera); Il Trittico, Madame Butterfly, La Fanciulla (Opera Holland Park); Madame Butterfly (Danish National Opera).

In 2017, Howell won a Knight of Illumination Award for Guards at the Taj at the Bush Theatre.