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Paul Pyant

Lighting design

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and for 45 years now working in Opera, Ballet, Musicals and Theatre worldwide including the London West End and on Broadway in New York. Long associations in the UK with Glyndebourne Opera, English National Opera, The Royal Opera Covent Garden, National Theatre, English National Ballet, Chichester Festival, The Donmar Warehouse and The Almeida Theatre. Work worldwide includes productions in America: (Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle, San Francisco, Washington), Australia, Austria, Denmark, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Monte Carlo, New Zealand, Russia (Bolshoi and Mariinsky), Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

Over the past year productions have included: Much ado about nothing for Simon Dormandy at the Rose Theatre Kingston, Sleeping beauty for the Shanghai Ballet, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III for the Rose Theatre York, The Village for Nadia Fall at Stratford East, Macbeth for the National Theatre on Tour, Das Rheingold for Stephen Langridge at the Göteborg Opera, Abigails Party for Sarah Esidale and ATG on tour, The Price for Jonathan Church at Wyndhams Theatre, Agnes Colander for Trevor Nunn at Jermyn Street Theatre and Agreed for Glyndebourne Opera.