David W Kidd
Biography
David’s extensive work worldwide includes theatre, opera, ballet, music events, corporate theatre and commercial pantomime. Dance and opera productions include The Silverlake (ETO), The Seraglio (ETO), Dido and Aeneas (ENO/Unicorn), ETO Digital Machaut and Josquin, (A) Thread (Jean Abreu Dance Company); 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), Caracalla’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (London and Toronto) and Die Walkuré (Denmark New Opera). Theatre credits include Turn Of The Screw (UK Tour), Bang Bang! (UK Tour), Secret Cinema presents Stranger Things (London), Sweeney Todd (Derby Theatre/Mercury Colchester), Baddies - The Musical (Unicorn Theatre), The Silver Sword (Sell A Door/ Coventry Belgrade and UK Tour), Martyr (Actors Touring Company), Little Shop Of Horrors (Salisbury); Albion (Bush Theatre, London); Educating Rita, Macbeth (Mercury, Colchester); Grand Guignol (Theatre Royal Plymouth and Southwark Playhouse); Blues In The Night (Hackney Empire); Smallholding (Hightide Festival and Soho Theatre); Bloodshot (UK Tour, Chicago, Canada, Vienna, St James’s Theatre, London), 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); Mother Goose (Hackney Empire). FEN (Finborough/National Theatre Studio), Independent Means (Library Theatre, Manchester), Nostalgia (Theatre Royal, Plymouth), White Boy (Soho Theatre), Resident Alien (New End Theatre), Milestones (Watford Palace Theatre), A Tribute to Siegfried and Roy (London Palladium), Relish (Shoreditch Tramshed), 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, Henry The Fifth, Dr Korczak’s Example, A Winter’s Tale, Hannah and The Velveteen Rabbit. 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. David is an Associate of Iron Shoes, the resident associate company of The Bush Theatre, London.
Previous productions
Current credits
Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative team | Closes |
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Andersen's Fairy Tales | Dance |
Sophia Opera House National Ballet of Bulgaria |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Christine Sundt Set designer: Bruce French |
31 Jan 2100 |
Peter and the Wolf | Dance |
Theatre Carre, Amsterdam, then touring In The Wings |
Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Didy Veldman Set designer: Paul Gallis |
01 Feb 2100 |
Previous productions
Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative Team | Opened |
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Baddies - The Musical | Musical | Unicorn Theatre, Lonodn | Lighting Designer |
Director: Purni Morrell Set designer: James Button |
Nov 2015 |
Hatch House Ballets with Carlos Acosta | Dance | Covent Garden Dance Company | Lighting Designer |
Choreographer: Various |
Jul 2015 |
Little Shop of Horrors | Musical | Salisbury Playhouse and Colchester Mercury | Lighting Designer |
Director: Gareth Machin Set designer: James Button |
Apr 2015 |
The Pillowman | Theatre |
Curve Leicester Theatre Trust |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Paul Kerryson Set designer: Juliet Shillingford |
Feb 2009 |
A Streetcar Named Desire | Theatre |
Nuffield Theatre Nuffield Theatre Company |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Patrick Sandford Set designer: Robin Don |
May 2008 |
Nostalgia | Theatre |
Drum Plymouth Thetare Royal |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Simon Stokes Set designer: Robin Don |
Feb 2008 |
Tchaikovsky and the Queen of Spades | Theatre | Nuffield Theatre, Southampton | Lighting Designer |
Director: Patrick Sandford Set designer: Vadim Tallerov |
May 2007 |
Don Quixote | Theatre |
Nuffield Theatre Nuffield Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Patrick Sandford Set designer: Juliet Shillingford |
Apr 2006 |
Nelson | Theatre |
Nuffield, Southampton Nuffield Theatre Company |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Patrick Sandford Set designer: Juliet Shillingford |
Oct 2005 |
Die Walküre | Opera |
Musikhuset, Esbjerg Denmark New Opera |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Troels Kold Set designer: Roy Bell |
Sep 2005 |
Frankenstein | Theatre |
Nuffield Theatre Southampton Nuffield Theatre Company |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Patrick Sandford Set designer: Robin Don |
Sep 2004 |
Murder In The Cathedral | Theatre |
Southwark and Westminster Cathedrals National Youth Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Ed Wilson Set designer: Lotte Collett |
Aug 2003 |
- Worldwide
Contact method | Details |
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Mobile phone |
07818 063083 |
Email address | |
Agent phone |
020 7272 5020 |
Website | |
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Agent website |
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