James Farncombe
Lighting Designer
For the Donmar: Inadmissible Evidence; The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse); Julius Caesar; Henry IV and The Tempest (Shakespeare Trilogy at Donmar King’s Cross/St Ann's Warehouse, New York).
Previous theatre credits: Vanya (Duke of York’s Theatre); Yerma (also Park Avenue Armory, New York); Measure for Measure (Young Vic); Phaedra; When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other; Macbeth; People Places and Things (also West End/UK tour/St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Edward II; Twelfth Night; Three Winters; The Plough and the Stars; Man and Superman (National Theatre); The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Almeida); Ghost Stories (Lyric Hammersmith/West End/tour); White Devil; As You Like It; A Mad World My Masters (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Tempest; Henry IV (St Ann’s Warehouse, New York); John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre); Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court/Hamburg Schauspielhaus); The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic); The Dresser (Duke of York’s); The Ladykillers (also Gielgud); Swalllows and Amazons (Vaudeville); Ibsen Huis and De Meiden (Toneelgroep, Amsterdam).
Previous opera credits: Innocence (San Francisco Opera/ Royal Opera House); Jenůfa (also Lyric Opera Chicago); Lessons in Love and Violence (also Gran Teatre del Liceu, Dutch National Opera/Opéra de Lyon/Hamburg State Opera); Theodora (Royal Opera House); Lucia di Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera/ LA Opera); Le Vin Herbé (Berliner
Staatsopera); Innocence (also Helsinki/Royal Opera House); Pelléas et Mélisande; Alcina (also Bolshoi); Tristan und Isolde (also Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg); Ariadne auf Naxos; Trauernacht (Aix-en-Provence); La Traviata (Opéra de Paris/ Wiener Staatsoper); Streetscene (Teatro Real, Madrid); Jenůfa (also Palau de les Arts, Valencia); Der Zwerg (Dutch National Opera); Francesca Da Rimini (Opéra National du Rhin); Miranda (Opéra Comique); The Barber of Seville (Glyndebourne); Marriage of Figaro (Opera North); Carmen; Die Fliegende Holländer; Ariodante (Scottish Opera); Pelléas et Mélisande (Den Norske Opera); Benjamin; dernière nuit (Opèra de Lyon); Blue and Die Tote Stadt (English National Opera).