Jon Clark

Lighting Designer

Jon is a Tony and Olivier award-winning lighting designer. He has designed extensively in the  West End, on Broadway, for the National Theatre, Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare  Company and with many other companies in the UK and internationally.  

For the Donmar: Limehouse; Trelawny of the Wells; Moonlight and Polar Bears

Theatre includes: Romeo & Juliet; Hello Dolly!; Stranger Things: The First Shadow (West End); Dear England; The Motive & The Cue (National Theatre/West End); The Effect (National Theatre/The Shed NY); A Doll’s House (Broadway); The Lehman Trilogy (Broadway/West End/National Theatre/ International tour); Cyrano de Bergerac (West End/ BAM); Betrayal (West End/Broadway); The Inheritance (West End/Broadway/Young Vic); The Shark Is Broken; King Charles III (Broadway/ West End); The Jungle (St Ann’s Warehouse/West End/Young Vic); Manor; I’m Not Running; Absolute Hell; Amadeus; As You Like It; The Beaux Stratagem; Hamlet; Othello; Collaborators; A Woman Killed With Kindness; Greenland; Pains of Youth; Our Class; Damned by Despair; Women of Troy; The Cat in the Hat; Beauty and the Beast; Hansel and Gretel (National Theatre); The Book of Dust; Talking Heads; A German Life; Bach & Sons (Bridge Theatre); Evita (Regent’s Park); Eureka Day (Old Vic); The Lorax (Old Vic/US & Toronto) The Commitments and Made in Dagenham (West End). 

Opera includes: Pique Dame (Bayerische Staatsoper); Hamlet (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne); The Exterminating Angel (Metropolitan Opera/Royal Opera House/Saltzburg Festival); Macbeth (Copenhagen/Valencia); Orphée et Eurydice (English National Opera); Krol Roger (Royal Opera House/Sydney Opera House); Written on Skin (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence/Royal Opera House/Lincoln Center & internationally); Lucia di Lammermoor and L’Etoile (Royal Opera  House).  

Dance includes: LORE for Wayne McGregor (La Scala, Milan) and The Cellist for Cathy Marston  (Royal Ballet). 

Jon won a Tony Award and Outer Critics Award for The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway, an Olivier Award for his work on The Inheritance; a Green Room Award for King Roger in Australia and a Knight of Illumination award for Three Days of Rain. He is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.