Jack Knowles trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and is responsible for the lighting design for a variety of productions in the UK as well as internationally.
His credits include Caroline, or Change (also on Broadway), Best of Enemies, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Windsors: Endgame and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe in the West End. Further theatre includes Romeo and Julie, Top Girls, Barber Shop Chronicles (also world tour), Beginning (also West End) and Cleansed at the National Theatre, Patriots, Spring Awakening and The Duchess of Malfi at the Almeida Theatre, Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp, The End of History and Instructions for Correct Assembly at the Royal Court, Venice Preserved at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Anna Karenina and Steel at Sheffield Theatres, Light Falls, The Producers, The Greatest Play in the History of the World (also on Traverse/Trafalgar Studios/tour) and Death of a Salesman at Royal Exchange Theatre, Committee at Donmar Warehouse, Piaf and Wonderland at Nottingham Playhouse, Good Vibrations at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Circle Mirror Transformation at HOME Manchester, Junkyard and Pygmalion at Headlong, Mary Stuart and The Beacon at Staatstheater Stuttgart, 4.48 Psychosis, Reisende auf einem Bein and Happy Days at Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, The Forbidden Zone at Salzburg Festival/Schaubühne, Berlin and Barbican, Phaedra at Enniskillen International Beckett Festival, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Lungs and Yellow Wallpaper at the Schaubühne, Berlin, Night Train at the Schauspiel in Cologne as well as at the Avignon Festival and Theatertreffen.
Opera includes The Seven Deadly Sins and Bluebeard’s Castle at Teatro Colón and La bohéme at Nevill Holt Opera.
Jack Knowles received the Knight of Illumination award 2018 for Barber Shop Chronicles.