David W Kidd

David’s work has been seen internationally in theatre, opera, ballet, music events, corporate theatre and pantomime.

Absent Made Present (New Commissions for ROH2 Linbury, Royal Opera House), Peter And The Wolf (European/UK Tour and New York), Secret Garden Ballets (Hatch House, Somerset), Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Bulgarian National Ballet) and Die Walkuré (Denmark New Opera).

Extensive theatre credits include: Sweeney Todd (Colchester and Derby Theatre), End Of The Rainbow (Colchester Mercury and UK Tour), The Silver Sword (Belgrade Coventry and UK Tour), Little Shop Of Horrors (Salisbury Playhouse/Mercury Theatre Colchester), Martyr (Actors Touring Company), Albion (Bush Theatre, London), Educating Rita, Macbeth (Mercury Theatre Colchester), Grand Guignol (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Southwark Playhouse), Blues In The Night, Sleeping Beauty (Hackney Empire), Smallholding (Hightide Festival/Soho Theatre), Bloodshot (UK Tour, Canada, Vienna, St James’s Theatre, London and Chicago), The Pillowman and The Beauty Queen Of Leenane (Leicester Curve), The Sound Of Music (Cork Opera), Mad About The Boy (Unicorn, Young Vic and Bush Theatres), FEN (Finborough/National Theatre Studio), Independent Means (Library Theatre, Manchester), Nostalgia (Theatre Royal, Plymouth), White Boy (Soho Theatre), Resident Alien (New End Theatre), A Tribute to Siegfried and Roy and Paul Merton Live! (London Palladium), Relish (Shoreditch Tramshed), The Anniversary (Garrick), Bumblescratch (Adelphi), The Female Odd Couple (Apollo), Little Eyolf and On Approval (Jermyn Street), The President’s Holiday (Hampstead Theatre), The Taming Of The Shrew and Dick Barton – Special Agent (Nottingham Playhouse). Other recent Unicorn productions include: Minotaur, Baddies – The Musical, Henry The Fifth, Dr Korczak’s Example, A Winter’s Tale, Hannah and The Velveteen Rabbit which opens in New York and Barcelona 2016.

David has lit many productions at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton including: God Of Carnage, Woody Allen’s Writer’s Block, Antony & Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, Earth & Sky, The House Of Bernarda Alba, The Playboy Of The Western World, A Streetcar Named Desire, She Stoops To Conquer, Don Quixote and Three Sisters (2002 TMA Award Best Design).

Off Broadway designs include: Unsuspecting Susan starring Celia Imrie and Tabloid Caligula.

Past productions

Lighting Designer, The Life, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama 4^th – 9^th March 2019, Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London.
Lighting Designer, Martyr, Actors Touring Company 15^th September – 10^th October 2015, Unicorn Theatre, London.
Lighting Designer, Little Shop of Horrors, Mercury Theatre Company and Salisbury Playhouse/Mercury Theatre 23^rd April – 13^th June 2015, Salisbury Playhouse and Mercury Theatre, Colchester.
Lighting, God of Carnage, Nuffield Theatre Company 12^th – 23^rd February 2013, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton.
Lighting, The Anniversary 10^th September 2004 – 16^th April 2005, Garrick Theatre, London and Liverpool Playhouse.
Lighting, The Dice House, Dice House Productions 4^th February – 27^th March 2004, Arts Theatre, London.
Lighting Designer, Mademoiselle Colombe, London Stage Company 19^th September – 5^th November 2000, Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham and Bridewell Theatre, London.
Lighting, Twelfth Night 28^th September – 16^th October 1999, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton.
Lighting Designer, Diary of a Madman, Nuffield Theatre Company 19^th – 29^th May 1999, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton.
Lighting, Dear Brutus, King’s Head Theatre 4^th – 30^th November 1997, King’s Head Theatre, London.
Lighting Design, When Did You Last See Your Trousers?, Richard Haddon for Live Wire Theatre Productions 7^th March – 12^th November 1994, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, and other locations.

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