Photographer: Tristram Kenton | From the show The Birthday Party
Photographer: Stephen Cummiskey | From the show The Pride
Photographer: Johan Persson | From the show Three Days of Rain
Photographer: Johan Persson | From the show Three Days of Rain

Jon Clark

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Biography

Jon studied Theatre Design at Bretton Hall, Leeds University.

Theatre includes:

As You Like It, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Othello, The Effect, Collaborators, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Greenland, Pains of Youth, Our Class, Women of Troy, The Cat in the Hat, Beauty and the Beast and Hansel and Gretel at the National Theatre.

Hamlet, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale, King Lear, The Homecoming and Silence at the RSC.

King Charles III (Olivier nomination) at the Wyndham's and Music Box, Broadway; Made in Dagenham at the Adelphi; The Commitments at the Palace; I Can’t Sing! at the Palladium; The Ruling Class and The Pride at Trafalgar Studios; Three Days of Rain (Olivier nomination) at the Apollo; The Little Dog Laughed at the Garrick; The Lover and the Collection at the Comedy

A Streetcar Named Desire, A Season in the Congo, Street Scene and Been So Long at the Young Vic; King Charles III, American Psycho, King Lear and The House of Bernarda Alba at the Almeida; Tipping The Velvet, The Birthday Party at the Lyric Hammersmith; Trelawny of the Wells, Moonlight and Polar Bears at the Donmar; Ten Billion, Red Bud, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Pride and Gone Too Far! at the Royal Court; Into the Woods at Regent’s Park; Salome for Headlong; Water and Silence for Filter; The Painkiller at the Lyric, Belfast and Four Quartets at Lincoln Center, New York.

Opera includes: Kròl Roger, Written on Skin for the Royal Opera House (also Aix-en-Provence, Lincoln Center New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Toulouse, Munich, Vienna); La Bohème (also Amsterdam), Wozzeck, Caligula (also Buenos Aires) and The Return of Ulysses for English National Opera; The Perfect American for ENO, Teatro Real, Madrid and Queensland Opera; La Bohème and Orest for Dutch National Opera; Macbeth for Royal Danish Opera; Footfalls/Neither at Staatsoper Berlin.

Dance includes: new works for Will Tuckett, Cathy Marston, Karole Armitage, Bern Ballet, Scottish Dance Theatre, Requardt & Rosenberg and ZooNation. 

Awards include:

2015 Olivier Award nomination for King Charles III

2010 Olivier Award nomination for Three Days of Rain

2014 Knight of Illumination nomination for American Psycho

2013 Knight of Illumination nomination for The Effect

2013 Knight of Illumination nomination for Written On Skin

2011 Knight of Illumination nomination for Into The Woods

2009 Knight of Illumination Award for Three Days of Rain

Further info at: www.jon-clark.com

Previous productions

Current credits

Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative team Closes
The Commitments Musical Palace Theatre, London
Phil McIntyre Entertainments Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		03 Feb 2100
King Charles III - UK Tour Theatre Birmingham Rep and UK Tour, then touring
Almeida Theatre & Birmingham Rep 		Lighting Designer Director: Rupert Goold
Set designer: Tom Scutt 		04 Feb 2100
La Boheme Opera London Coliseum
English National Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Benedict Andrews
Set designer: Johannes Schütz 		05 Feb 2100

In repertoire

Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative team
The Exterminating Angel Opera The Metropolitan Opera, New York
The Metropolitan Opera, New York 		Lighting Designer Director: Tom Cairns
Set designer: Hildegard Bechtler

Previous productions

Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
Once in a Lifetime Theatre Young Vic
Young Vic 		Lighting Designer Director: Richard Jones
Set designer: Hyemi Shin 		Nov 2016
Amadeus Theatre Olivier Theatre, NT
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Michael Longhurst
Set designer: Chloe Lamford 		Oct 2016
The Lorax Musical The Old Vic
The Old Vic 		Lighting Designer Director: Max Webster
Set designer: Rob Howell 		Dec 2015
As You Like It Theatre Olivier Theatre, NT
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Polly Findlay
Set designer: Lizzie Clachan 		Oct 2015
King Charles III - Broadway Theatre Music Box Theater, New York
Stuart Thompson Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Rupert Goold
Set designer: Tom Scutt 		Oct 2015
Tipping The Velvet Theatre Lyric Hammersmith
Lyric Hammersmith 		Lighting Designer Director: Lyndsey Turner
Set designer: Lizzie Clachan 		Sep 2015
Written on Skin Opera David Koch Theater, Lincoln Center NYC
Lincoln Center, New York 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Aug 2015
Luna Gale Theatre Hampstead Theatre
Hampstead Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Michael Attenborough
Set designer: Lucy Osbourne 		Jun 2015
The Beaux Stratagem Theatre Olivier Theatre
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Simon Godwin
Set designer: Lizzie Clachan 		May 2015
Kròl Roger Theatre Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Royal Opera House 		Lighting Designer Director: Kasper Holten
Set designer: Steffen Aarfing 		May 2015
The Ruling Class Theatre Trafalgar Studios
Jamie Lloyd Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		Jan 2015
La Boheme Opera Dutch National Opera and Ballet
Dutch National Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Benedict Andrews
Set designer: Johannes Schütz 		Dec 2014
Made In Dagenham Musical Adelphi Theatre
Stage Entertainment 		Lighting Designer Director: Rupert Goold
Set designer: Bunny Christie 		Oct 2014
The Perfect American Opera Concert Hall, QPAC, Brisbane, Australia
Opera Queensland 		Lighting Designer Director: Phelim McDermott
Set designer: Dan Potra 		Sep 2014
King Charles III Theatre Wyndham's Theatre
Almeida Theatre & Sonia Friedman Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Rupert Goold
Set designer: Tom Scutt 		Sep 2014
A Streetcar Named Desire Theatre Young Vic
Young Vic 		Lighting Designer Director: Benedict Andrews
Set designer: Magda Willi 		Jul 2014
Footfalls/Neither Theatre Schiller Theater Berlin
Stadt Oper Berlin 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Jun 2014
The Roof Theatre Bristol Mayfest & London International Festival
Requardt and Rosenberg 		Lighting Designer Director: Frauke Requardt & David Rosenberg
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		May 2014
King Charles III Theatre Almeida Theatre
Almeida Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Rupert Goold
Set designer: Tom Scutt 		Apr 2014
Caligula Opera Teatro Colón
Teatro Colón 		Lighting Designer Director: Benedict Andrews
Set designer: Ralph Myers 		Apr 2014
I Can't Sing! Musical London Palladium
Stage Entertainments & Syco 		Lighting Designer Director: Sean Foley
Set designer: Es Devlin 		Feb 2014
American Psycho Musical Almeida Theatre
Almeida & Headlong Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Rupert Goold
Set designer: Es Devlin 		Dec 2013
Macbeth Opera Copenhagen Opera House
Danish National Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Benedict Andrews
Set designer: Ashley Martin-Davis 		Nov 2013
The Pride Theatre Trafalgar Studios
Jamie Lloyd Productions 		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		Aug 2013
A Season in the Congo Theatre Young Vic
Young Vic 		Lighting Designer Director: Joe Wright
Set designer: Lizzie Clachan 		Jul 2013
The Perfect American Opera London Coliseum
English National Opera (ENO) 		Lighting Designer Director: Phelim McDermott
Set designer: Dan Potra 		Jun 2013
Wozzeck Opera London Coliseum
English National Opera (ENO) 		Lighting Designer Director: Carrie Cracknell
Set designer: Tom Scutt 		May 2013
Othello Theatre Olivier Theatre
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Nicholas Hytner
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Apr 2013
Hamlet Theatre Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Royal Shakespeare Company 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Mar 2013
Written on Skin Opera Main Stage, Royal Opera House
Festival Aix-en-Provence, DNO, ROH 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Mar 2013
Street Scene Musical Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
The Opera Group 		Lighting Designer Director: John Fulljames
Set designer: Dick Bird 		Mar 2013
Trelawny of the Wells Theatre Donmar Warehouse
Donmar Warehouse 		Lighting Designer Director: Joe Wright
Set designer: Hildegard Bechler 		Feb 2013
Street Scene Musical Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
The Opera Group 		Lighting Designer Director: John Fulljames
Set designer: Dick Bird 		Jan 2013
The Perfect American Opera Teatro Real, Madrid
Teatro Real, Madrid 		Lighting Designer Director: Phelim McDermott
Set designer: Dan Potra 		Jan 2013
Hansel and Gretel Theatre Cottesloe Theatre
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Dec 2012
Written on Skin Opera Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Nov 2012
The Effect Theatre Cottesloe Theatre
National Theatre / Headlong Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Rupert Goold
Set designer: Miriam Buether 		Nov 2012
Written on Skin Opera Het Musiek Theater, Amsterdam
Netherlands Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Oct 2012
Damned by Despair Theatre Olivier Theatre
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Bijan Sheibani
Set designer: Giles Cadle 		Oct 2012
Water Theatre Sydney Theatre Company, Australia
Filter Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Sep 2012
King Lear Theatre Almeida Theatre
Almeida Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Michael Attenborough
Set designer: Tom Scutt 		Aug 2012
Ten BIllion Theatre Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court
Royal Court 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Giles Cadle 		Jul 2012
Written on Skin Opera Grand Theatre Provence
Festival Aix-en-Provence, DNO, ROH 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Jul 2012
Caligula Opera London Coliseum
English National Opera (ENO) 		Lighting Designer Director: Benedict Andrews
Set designer: Ralph Myers 		May 2012
The Tempest Theatre Royal Shakespeare Theatre & Roundhouse, London
Royal Shakespeare Company 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Mar 2012
The Comedy of Errors Theatre Royal Shakespeare Theatre & Roundhouse, London
Royal Shakespeare Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Amir Nizar Zuabi
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Feb 2012
Twelfth Night Theatre Royal Shakespeare Theatre & Roundhouse, London
Royal Shakespeare Company 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Feb 2012
The House of Bernarda Alba Theatre Almeida Theatre
Almeida Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Bijan Sheibani
Set designer: Bunny Christie 		Jan 2012
The Cat In The Hat Theatre Theatre de la Ville
Theatre de la Ville & National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Dec 2011
Orest Theatre Amsterdam Music Theatre
Netherlands Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Giles Cadle 		Dec 2011
Four Quartets Theatre Clark Theater, Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Nov 2011
Collaborators Theatre Cottesloe Theatre (Olivier from April 2012)
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Nicholas Hytner
Set designer: Bob Crowley 		Oct 2011
The Painkiller Theatre Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Lyric Theatre, Belfast 		Lighting Designer Director: Sean Foley
Set designer: Alice Power 		Sep 2011
Street Scene Musical The Young Vic, then touring
The Opera Group & The Young Vic 		Lighting Designer Director: John Fulljames
Set designer: Dick Bird 		Sep 2011
The Homecoming Theatre The Swan Theatre, RSC Stratford-Upon Avon
RSC 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Jul 2011
The Winter's Tale Theatre The Armories, New York
RSC 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Jul 2011
King Lear Theatre The Armories, New York
RSC 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Jul 2011
A Woman Killed With Kindness Theatre Lyttelton Theatre
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Lizzie Clachan 		Jul 2011
Seven Angels Opera CBSO Birmingham, then touring
The Opera Group 		Lighting Designer Director: John Fulljames
Set designer: Takamine Tadasu 		Jun 2011
Silence Theatre Hampstead Theatre
RSC and Filter Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		May 2011
Clemency Opera Linbury Studio Theatre ROH
ROH2 and Scottish Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Alex Eales 		May 2011
Moonlight Theatre Donmar Warehouse
Donmar Warehouse 		Lighting Designer Director: Bijan Sheibani
Set designer: Bunny Christie 		Apr 2011
The Return of Ulysses Opera The Young Vic
ENO 		Lighting Designer Director: Benedict Andrews
Set designer: Börkur Jónsson 		Mar 2011
Lay Me Down Safe Dance Dundee Rep Theatre, then touring
Scottish Dance Theatre 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Kate Weare
Set designer: Katherina Redeva 		Feb 2011
Greenland Theatre National Theatre - Lyttelton
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Bijan Sheibani
Set designer: Bunny Christie 		Jan 2011
King Lear Theatre Roundhouse, London
RSC 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Jan 2011
Beauty and the Beast Theatre Cottesloe Theatre
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Nov 2010
The Winter's Tale Theatre The Roundhouse
RSC 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Nov 2010
Red Bud Theatre Royal Court
Royal Court 		Lighting Designer Director: Jo McInnes
Set designer: Tom Hadley 		Oct 2010
Hamlet Theatre Olivier Theatre
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Nicholas Hytner
Set designer: Vicki Mortimer 		Sep 2010
Pleasure's Progress Dance Linbury Theatre, ROH, then touring
ROH2 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Will Tuckett
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Sep 2010
Into The Woods Musical Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park 		Lighting Designer Director: Timothy Sheader & Liam Steele
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		Aug 2010
A Winter's Tale Theatre Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
RSC 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Jul 2010
Lion's Face Opera Brighton Theatre Royal, then touring
The Opera Group 		Lighting Designer Director: John Fulljames
Set designer: Alex Lowde 		May 2010
Salome Theatre The Curve, Leicester, then touring
Headlong Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		May 2010
Auf immer und ewig Dance Stadt Theater Bern
Bern Ballett, Switzerland 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Cathy Marston / Andrea Miller
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Apr 2010
Polar Bears Theatre Donmar Warehouse
Donmar Warehouse 		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		Apr 2010
Alpine Adventures Opera Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank
London Sinfonietta 		Lighting Designer Director: John Fulljames
Set designer: John Fulljames 		Mar 2010
King Lear Theatre Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
RSC 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Feb 2010
The Cat In The Hat Theatre Young Vic
National Theatre at the Young Vic 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicky Mortimer 		Jan 2010
The Little Dog Laughed Theatre Garrick Theatre, West End
CMP Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		Jan 2010
The Cat In The Hat Theatre Cottesloe Theatre
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicky Mortimer 		Dec 2009
Four Quartets Theatre Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York
Lincoln Center, New York 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicky Mortimer 		Dec 2009
Pains of Youth Theatre Cottesloe Theatre
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Vicky Mortimer 		Oct 2009
Our Class Theatre Cottesloe Theatre
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Bijan Sheibani
Set designer: Bunny Christie 		Sep 2009
Been So Long Theatre Traverse Theatre
ETT / Young Vic 		Lighting Designer Director: Che Walker
Set designer: Dick Bird 		Aug 2009
Ghosts Theatre Arcola Theatre
ATC 		Lighting Designer Director: Bijan Sheibani
Set designer: Alex Eales 		Jul 2009
Been So Long Theatre Young Vic
Young Vic & ETT 		Lighting Designer Director: Che Walker
Set designer: Dick Bird 		Jun 2009
Aunt Dan and Lemon Theatre Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
The Royal Court Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Dominic Cooke
Set designer: Lizzie Clachan 		May 2009
Anton and Erin - Cheek to Cheek Dance London Coliseum
Dance Partnership LLP / Raymond Gubbay Ltd 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Alan Harding
 Apr 2009
The Winter's Tale Theatre Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Royal Shakespeare Company 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Mar 2009
Spyski! Theatre Liverpool Playhouse, then touring
Peepolykus & Lyric Hammersmith 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Tom Piper 		Mar 2009
Tarantula in Petrol Blue Opera Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Aldeburgh Music 		Lighting Designer Director: Bijan Sheibani
Set designer: Alex Eales 		Feb 2009
Into The Little Hill / Down by the Greenwood Side Opera Linbury Studio / ROH 2, then touring
The Opera Group 		Lighting Designer Director: John Fulljames
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		Feb 2009
Three Days of Rain Theatre Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Av.
Neal St. Productions & CMP Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		Jan 2009
The Love for Three Oranges Opera Glasgow Theatre Royal & Festival Theatre Edinburgh
RSAMD & Scottish Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Lee Blakeley
Set designer: Emma Wee 		Jan 2009
The Pride Theatre Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court
Royal Court 		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		Nov 2008
Libera Me / Between The Clock and The Bed Theatre Stadt Theater Bern
Bern Ballett, Switzerland 		Lighting Designer Nov 2008
Spyski Theatre Lyric Hammersmith
Peepolykus & Lyric Hammersmith 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Tom Piper 		Oct 2008
Eric's Musical Everyman Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		Sep 2008
Gone Too Far! Theatre Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
Royal Court Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Bijan Sheibani
 Jul 2008
Street Scene Theatre Watford Palace Theatre & The Young Vic
The Opera Group 		Lighting Designer Director: John Fuljames
Set designer: Dick Bird 		Jul 2008
On The Rocks Theatre Hampstead Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Claire Lizzimore
Set designer: Paul Burgess 		Jun 2008
Dickens Unplugged Theatre Comedy Theatre, West End
Mark Goucher Ltd & Wimpole Theatre Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Adam Long
Set designer: Lez Brotherston 		May 2008
The Birthday Party Theatre Lyric Hammersmith
Lyric Hammersmith 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		May 2008
How To Tell The Misfits From The Monsters Theatre The Door, Birmingham Rep
The Birmingham Rep Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Lorne Campbell
Set designer: Chloe Lambert 		Apr 2008
The Merchant Of Venice Theatre The Courtyard, Stratford
Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) 		Lighting Designer Director: Tim Carroll
Set designer: Laura Hopkins 		Apr 2008
Dickens Unplugged Theatre Guildford Yvonne Arnaud
Mark Goucher Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Adam Long
Set designer: Lez Brotherston 		Feb 2008
The Lover and The Collection Theatre The Comedy Theatre, West End
Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set designer: Soutra Gilmour 		Jan 2008
Women of Troy Theatre Lyttleton Theatre
National Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Kate Mitchell
Set designer: Bunny Christie 		Nov 2007
Water Theatre Lyric Hammersmith
Filter Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: David Farr
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Oct 2007
Sorry for the Missiles! Dance Dundee Rep & Tour
Scottish Dance Theatre 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Vanessa Haska
Set designer: Phyllis Byrne 		Sep 2007
Tenderhook Dance Dundee Rep Theatre, then touring
Scottish Dance Theatre 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Liv Lorent
 Sep 2007
Stooped Fucken Animals Theatre Traverse Edinburgh
Loose Collective 		Lighting Designer Director: Kate Budgen
Set designer: Becky 		Aug 2007
Into The Hoods Dance The Pleasance Grand
ZooNation Dance 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Kate Prince
Set designer: Kate Prince 		Aug 2007
Night Time Theatre Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Traverse Theatre 		Lighting Designer Director: Lorne Campbell
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Jul 2007
I Capuleti e I Montecchi Opera Nevill Holt
Grange Park Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Dominic Cooke / Revival Director: Ptolemy Christie
Set designer: Robert Innes Hopkins 		Jul 2007
Into The Hoods Dance Wales Millennium Centre
ZooNation Dance 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Kate Prince
Set designer: Kate Prince 		Jun 2007
Grange Park Opera 10th Birthday Opera The Grange
Grange Park Opera 		Lighting Designer Jun 2007
Food Theatre Newbury, then touring
The Imaginary Body 		Lighting Designer Director: Chris Heimann
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		May 2007
Jenufa Opera Kennedy Center, Washington
Washington National Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: David Alden
Set designer: Charles Edwards 		May 2007
How Much Is Your Iron? Theatre Young Vic, London Lighting Designer Director: Orla O'loughlin
Set designer: Dick Bird 		Apr 2007
The Jewish Wife Theatre Young Vic, London Lighting Designer Director: Katie Mitchell
Set designer: Hildegard Bechtler 		Mar 2007
Sorry for the Missiles! Dance Dundee Rep Theatre, then touring
Scottish Dance Theatre 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Vanessa Haska
Set designer: Phyllis Byrne 		Feb 2007
Pinter's People Theatre Theatre Royal Haymarket
Mick Perrin Productions Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Sean Foley
Set designer: Simon Hodgson 		Jan 2007
FTC Kaplan Winter Meeting Corporate & Industrial Nursery Pavilion Lord's Cricket Ground
VCL Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Paul Wright
Set designer: Paul Wright 		Jan 2007
Irving Berlin's White Christmas Theatre Mayflower Southampton
Michael Rose Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Barbara Epstein
 Dec 2006
The Pinter Sketches Theatre Landmark Theatre
Mick Perrin Productions Ltd 		Lighting Designer Director: Sean Foley
Set designer: Simon Hodgson 		Dec 2006
Jenufa Opera London Coliseum
English National Opera [ENO] 		Lighting Designer Director: David Alden
Set designer: Charles Edwards 		Oct 2006
Food Theatre Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
The Imaginary Body 		Lighting Designer Director: Chris Heimann
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Aug 2006
L'Elisir D'Amore Opera The Grange
Grange Park Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Martin Constantine
Set designer: Lez Brotherston 		Jul 2006
Barber of Seville Opera The Grange, then touring
Grange Park Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Ptolemy Christie
Set designer: George Souglides & Emma Ryott 		Jul 2006
Into The Hoods Dance Peacock Theatre, London
ZooNation Dance for Sadler's Wells 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Kate Prince
Set designer: Kate Prince 		Feb 2006
The Soldier's Tale Theatre The Old Vic, London
The Motion Group with The Old Vic 		Lighting Designer Director: Andrew Steggall
Set designer: Jon Bausor 		Jan 2006
REAL Dance Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London, then touring
Ace Dance 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Robert Moses, Andile Sotiya, Gail Parmel
Set designer: Gail Parmel 		Sep 2005
Cosi Fan Tutte Opera Nevill Holt
Grange Park Opera 		Lighting Designer Director: Ptolemy Christie
Set designer: Adrian Linford 		Jul 2004
Mandragora Theatre Tron Theatre, Glasgow, then touring
Tara Arts 		Lighting Designer Director: Jatinda Verma
Set designer: Claudia Meyer 		Apr 2004
Gone To Earth Theatre Lyric Hammersmith, then touring
Shared Experience 		Lighting Designer Director: Nancy Meckler
Set designer: Niki Turner 		Mar 2004
The Tale That Wags The Dog Theatre The Drum, Plymouth Theatre Royal
AandBC Theatre Company 		Lighting Designer Director: Greg Thompson
Set designer: Pam McBain 		Feb 2004
Mountains are Mountains Dance Tanz Quartier, Vienna, then touring
Phillipp Gehmacher 		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Phillipp Gehmacher
Set designer: Phillipp Gehmacher 		Mar 2003
Underworld Theatre Lyric Hammersmith, then touring
Frantic Assembly 		Lighting Designer Director: Steven Hoggett and Scott Graham
 Feb 2001
Beauty and the Beast Theatre Sheffield Crucible Studio Lighting Designer Director: Amanda
Set designer: Joslin McKinney 		Dec 1996
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News

Appearing here soon... a collection of articles from the Focus magazine archives.

Press quotes

Amadeus

Bathed in Jon Clark's lush lighting, this is a staging that basks in its beauty, even as it runs amok.
Matt Trueman, Whatsonstage.com 27/10/2016

Kròl Roger

Steffen Aarfing’s set, with exceptional lighting by Jon Clark and choreography (a discreetly effective orgy) by Cathy Marston, is both functional and visually arresting.
Fiona Maddocks, The Observer 10/05/2015
With his designers, Steffen Aarfing (set and costumes), Jon Clark (lighting) and Luke Halls (video), Holten creates a striking visual framework for this not-quite masterpiece...
Anna Picard, The Sunday Times 10/05/2015
Full marks to the team of set designer Steffen Aarfing and lighting designer Jon Clark, who contribute enormously to the psychodrama, especially in the third act when the large head slowly and visibly seems to decay before our eyes.
Jonathan Lennie, Time Out 06/05/2015
...powerfully lit by Jon Clark and with some superbly restrained video work from Luke Halls...
Mark Valencia, Whatsonstage.com 01/05/2015
...matched for impact by Kwiecien and his expansive vocal ecstasy in the opera’s final moments, no less brilliant than Jon Clark’s lighting.
Alexandra Coghlan, The Arts Desk 01/05/2015

The Ruling Class

Jon Clark provides effective and interesting lighting effects which make the most of Gilmour’s set.
Stephen Collins, British Theatre.com 29/01/2015

The Perfect American

...astonishing video designs, aided and abetted by Jon Clark's vivid lighting.
Michael Shmith, The Sydney Morning Herald 16/09/2014

Wozzeck

...confidently mounted and wonderfully lit (by Jon Clark).
Mark Valencia, classicalsource.com 14/05/2013
Jon Clark, is unusual and particularly effective. We occasionally get a single spot on Wozzeck himself at points of particular emotional turmoil, but more often the lighting fits into the scenario, with the set illuminated in a pale neon glow. In one of the interludes, there is a particularly effective vignette, in which the Captain comes into the social club and vents his frustrations on a shoot-em-up arcade game in the corner. But the whole episode is lit so dimly that you can only just see that it is happening, making it all the more sinister.
administrator, Opera Britannica 14/05/2013

Written on Skin

...stylishly designed by Vicki Mortimer and lit by Jon Clark.
Fiona Maddocks, The Observer 16/03/2013
Katie Mitchell's virtuosic staging - time-hopping, split level designs from Vicki Mortimer, beautiful lighting by Jon Clark - arguably heightens the prevailing emotional chill.
Neil Fisher, The Times 10/03/2013
Vicki Mortimer’s designs point up the disparity between then and now with real visual allure and Jon Clark’s lighting is often as fastidious as the music it serves to illuminate
Richard Whitehouse, Classical Source 10/03/2013
There are echoes of things like Theorem by Pasolini and Pelléas et Mélisande by Debussy, and, in Jon Clark's lighting, Tarkovsky and Caravaggio.
Igor Toronyi-Lalic, The Arts Desk 09/03/2013
...superbly lit by Jon Clark.
Colin Anderson, The Opera Critic 08/03/2013
Vicki Mortimer’s compartmentalized décor creatively sets most of the action in a single, dreary room for the Protector and Agnès; a forest is on one side and on the other, as well as above, are modern workrooms for the Angels. Jon Clark’s lighting is both effective generally and helps to demarcate the opera’s scenes.
George Loomis, The New York Times 16/10/2012
Il libretto, che alterna che alterna momenti di poesia a un linguaggio crudo, come già abbiamo fatto cenno, si integra perfettamente con la musica che si presenta con uno stile che si potrebbe definire in qualche modo classico. Non ci sono “arie” che ci collegano a una visione tradizionale dell’opera. Ogni suono viene cantato o suonato in una forma espressiva tra l’antico e il contemporaneo. Questo mix è anche evidenziato dalla presenza in orchestra di strumenti quali la viola da gamba e la glassharmonica che apportano un colore particolare alla musica. Written on Skin mette in luce inoltre un reale lavoro d’équipe tra George Benjamin, qui anche in veste di direttore d’orchestra, il librettista Martin Crimp, la regista e la scenografa e costumista Vicki Mortimer, creatrice di un impianto scenico fisso su due livelli, dei quadri che rappresentano il passato e il presente dei personaggi e il crescendo delle loro tensioni personali.... continue reading
Jocelyne De Nicola, GBOpera 29/07/2012
Jon Clark’s lighting has the removed grandeur of an oil painting.
Liam Cagney, Daily Telegraph 16/07/2012
beau travail sur les lumières (Jon Clark)
Chantal Cazaux, Avant Scène Opera 09/07/2012

Trelawny of the Wells

Hildegard Bechtler’s design...has the advantage of Jon Clark’s atmospheric lighting, which deftly shifts between the stygian gloom of Sir William’s moribund household and the footlights of a Victorian stage.
David Benedict, Variety 28/02/2013
...the atmospheric colouring of Hildegard Bechtler’s sets, beautifully lit by Jon Clark...
Mark Shenton, The Stage 27/02/2013

Water

Director David Farr and designer Jon Bausor have created a staging that allows for a highly effective nothing-up-our-sleeves type of theatre that manages to be startlingly beautiful at the same time...//There is fine lighting by Jon Clark.// The overall effect is to make this complex material astonishingly clear.
John McCallum, The Australian 15/09/2012
'..the visual and sonic expertise is never allowed, in David Farr's elegant production, to lapse into self-advertising cleverness.'
Michael Billington, The Guardian 19/10/2007

King Lear

Trevor Fox is a lovely dry Geordie Fool who struggles to restrain Lear with a desperate, loving embrace throughout the storm scene as Jon Clark's spectacular lighting crashes round Tom Scutt's medieval/modern set whose curving tiered brick wall mirrors the Almeida's own architecture.
Paul Taylor, The Independent 12/09/2013
The real feat of design is Jon Clark's intricate lighting which captures characters on the heath as if lightning were the brush of an old master. At one brilliant point Pryce speaks with only a few lines of his face and limbs picked out with silver: it's as if his mind were dragging his body into its own darkness.
Susannah Clapp, The Observer 16/09/2012
Tom Scutt’s all-brick design, using the theatre’s back wall, is given a subtle son et lumiere treatment by Jon Clark’s lighting and Dan Jones’s sound, providing an epic scale without drowning a single word.
Michael Coveney, The Stage 12/09/2012
Jon Clark's lighting in this production is quite remarkable. He uses the whole range from blaring brightness to virtual darkness, the latter (not) illuminating the ''blow winds'' speech to great dramatic effect. Throughout, Clark engenders an appropriately claustrophobic atmosphere.
Phillip Fisher, The British Theatre Guide 22/01/2011
The period setting is not specific: a medieval/Edwardian/ modern-day militarised state where the chandeliers flicker in Lear's jerry-built fortress. That ingeniously foreshadows the storm scene, when the King's world collapses and he goes mad in hallucinatory flashes of lightning... In an unforgettable cliff-top scene, in a haze of sunlight, his Lear stands crowned with wild flowers.
Kate Bassett, The Independent on Sunday 14/03/2010
The grim and grime of the play has been fully expressed in Jon Bausor's design and Jon Clark's unremitting lighting
Michael Coveney, The Independent 08/03/2010
Jon Clark's lighting washes all of David Farr's production in a dark, swirling mist, save – with a sad and clever irony – the scene in which Geoffrey Freshwater's very good, clubbable Gloucester is blinded. As his eyeball is flipped casually out of its socket and on to the boards, the stage glows as if it were a smithy.
Susannah Clapp, The Observer 07/03/2010

Caligula

Making this all the more eerie was the sinister green lighting (the choices of Lighting Designer Jon Clark were spot-on, here and throughout).
Dominic Wells, Opera-Britannica 29/05/2012
Ralph Myers’s set, skilfully lit by Jon Clark, locates the action in a stadium — that traditional site of totalitarian exercise of power with all its inherent theatrical potential.
Barry Millington, The Evening Standard 28/05/2012

The House of Bernarda Alba

The production is designed with beautiful austerity by Bunny Christie, and Jon Clark's lighting is superb, with pale sunlight filtering through a skylight, and blinding flashes closing each scene, like emotional explosions.
Kate Bassett, The Independent on Sunday 05/02/2012
Despite Bunny Christie's airy set, the sensitive lighting and a subtle soundscape by Dan Jones keeps us aware of the forbidden outer world; sunshine, moonlight, men's distant singing in the fields, crickets chirping in the hot starry night, when a girl longs to creep to her lover.
Libby Purves, The Times 30/01/2012
Jon Clark's lighting abets Christie's incipient mausoleum of a set to ensure that, visually, the show cuts to the quick.
Matt Wolf, The Arts Desk 28/01/2012
That world is magnificently conjured in Bunny Christie’s epic design, stunningly lit by Jon Clark with bursts of blinding light punctuating the scenes.
Mark Shenton, The Stage 27/01/2012
The production is a marvel of carefully built-up, beautifully lit atmosphere.
Paul Taylor, The Independent 30/01/2011

The Homecoming

This is a black and bleakly comic play given a raw and daring production. The use of colour in the design (set by Jon Bausor and lighting by Jon Clark) reinforces this with the increasing influence of red as the play develops.
Simon Tavener, Whatsonstage.com 04/08/2011
Well lit by Jon Clark to suggest we are looking at an illuminated domestic jungle...
Michael Billington, The Guardian 04/08/2011

The Winter's Tale

Farr's fluent combination of arresting staging, lighting (Jon Clark), and both live and recorded music...create a ''Winter's Tale'' well worth experiencing.
JENNIFER FARRAR, Associated Press 25/07/2011
...arrestingly intelligent staging and lighting...
Clare Brennan, The Observer 19/04/2009

A Woman Killed With Kindness

Jon Clark’s superb lighting helps to define the two spaces within the stage and to continually prompt the audience in where to follow the narrative.
Jake Orr, ayoungertheatre.com 21/07/2011
...in Jon Clark's beautiful lighting, the hues of spring turn ice-cold.
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian 20/07/2011

The Return of Ulysses

We can no longer hide behind stylisation and shrink from the reality and as Ulysses takes a long hot shower, washing away years of dust and gore, a hopeful warmth is introduced into the hitherto stark white unforgiving lighting as husband and wife dare to believe in happiness once more.
Edward Seckerson, The Independent 25/03/2011

Greenland

..Bunny Christie’s design, beautifully lit by Jon Clark, supplies snowflakes and rain effects that are stunning
Michael Coveney, Whatsonstage.com 02/02/2011

Red Bud

Jon Clark’s expressive lighting tapers eloquently as the proceedings veer into the emotional darkness
Paul Taylor, The Independent 28/10/2010

Hamlet

Denmark is a frightening unstable political regime and apprehensive lighting by Jon Clark creates a shadowy environment that conceals spectres and, worse, spies.
Dave Cunningham, Whatsonstage.com 09/02/2011
Jon Clark’s lighting insists upon shadows as befits a play inhabited by a Ghost
Matt Wolf, The New York Times 12/10/2010
...Jon Clark’s brilliantly conceived lighting creates pockets of focus and moody tracts of shadow.
Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard 08/10/2010
Jon Clark's beautiful lighting makes full use of the props that come with Hytner's staging. In one scene a spotlight used by the players creates an exquisite setting for Hamlet's soliloquy.
CB, OfficialLondonTheatre.co.uk 08/10/2010
Lighting designer Jon Clark takes advantage of stage mist to obscure characters, and that works especially well when the Ghost of Hamlet's father (James Laurenson) makes his spectral appearance early on.
Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter 08/10/2010

Into The Woods

Meanwhile the woods themselves come alive at dusk with Jon Clark’s highly effective lighting design that both penetrates and cleverly highlights the action.
John Thaxter, British Theatre Guide 19/08/2010
Sheader’s witty direction and, above all, the spectacularly-lit woodland location, ensure that this fairy-tale musical casts a pretty potent spell.
Charles Spencer, The Telegraph 17/08/2010

Salome

...punctuated by Jon Clark's fiercely directional lighting that ignites the action by blasting shocks of hard white light from serried ranks of lanterns ranged across the black space.
David Benedict, Variety 30/06/2010
Soutra Gilmour’s set is a raised platform of gritty sand, with pools of oil in the corners and lighting rigs surrounding it. The location is dry, dirty and starkly lit (by Jon Clark).
Donald Hutera, The Times 17/05/2010
Jon Clark's stark lighting and Soutra Gilmour's industrial set create a credible arena
Alfred Hickling, The Guardian 13/05/2010

Polar Bears

Much of that achievement depends on Soutra Gilmour's immensely impressive set design, which is starkly lit from extreme angles by Jon Clark. Conjuring vividly delineated spaces above and beneath the acting area, their design embodies the metaphor of highs and lows that the play proposes but fails to develop emotionally.
David Benedict, Variety 07/04/2010

Ghosts

The splendid set by Alex Hales, atmospheric lighting by Jon Clark and haunting sound design by Emma Laxton all contribute to one of the best productions I have seen this year and certainly the best production of Ghosts I have seen in a long time.
Keith Myers, Whatsonstage.com 27/07/2009

Anton and Erin - Cheek to Cheek

...and a lighting designer who deserves a knighthood for evoking the moody hues of late-night schmooze.
Sarah Frater, The Evening Standard 29/04/2009

Three Days of Rain

Music and a city soundscape add further authenticity to Soutra Gilmour's gray , disused Manhattan loft set. Gilmour even completes the interior with a ceiling, thus providing a literal and metaphorical crack through which lighting designer Jon Clark shines a single fractured beam to dramatize the space. Clark and Lloyd use side-lighting to lower and raise the temperature, and not just in the effective rain-drenched sequences at the front of the stage, alluded to in the play's title. The sunny warmth stealing over the second act is in powerful contrast to the cheerlessness cast over the initial proceedings via ghostly daylight looming in through Gimour's tall windows. That depth of eloquent atmosphere is a springboard for the thrillingly balanced performances.
David Benedict, Variety Magazine 12/02/2009
Soutra Gilmour’s beautifully realised set, evocatively lit by Jon Clark, is the downtown Manhattan flat that has, we learn, been occupied by father and son with a space of some 30 years in between.
Jeremy Austin, The Stage 11/02/2009

Street Scene

...both choreography (Arthur Pita) and lighting (Jon Clark) were striking.
Melanie Eskenazi, Seen and Heard 17/07/2008

The Birthday Party

..well recreated in David Farr’s revival, which has a livid green lighting by Jon Clark, casting lots of Expressionist shadows on Jon Bausor’s filthily designed B&B with ducks on the wall flying against the receding perspectives.
Michael Coveney, Whatsonstage.com 13/05/2008

The Lover and The Collection

'Caught in solitary shafts of light (beadily designed by Jon Clark)'
David Jays, The Sunday Times 03/02/2008
'Soutra Gilmour’s design and Jon Clark’s lighting create the right sort of slightly unreal atmosphere for both plays..'
Michael Coveney, What's On Stage 30/01/2008

Tenderhook

The opening to Liv Lorent’s tenderhook must be one of the most beautiful in this year’s Fringe. Philippa White’s body becomes slowly discernible in Jon Clark’s exquisite lighting: she appears almost nude under the fresh glow, en pointe, twirling poi ribbons that look like Catherine wheels in her hands.
Lucy Ribchester, The British Theatre Guide 11/08/2008
This is a visionary piece, combining music, colour, light (richly created by Jon Clark), smoke, Paul Shriek's pink and green costume design and beautifully graceful, balletic dancing.
Vivien Devlin, EdinburghGuide.com 20/03/2008
Jon Clark's stunning lighting design gives the whole piece an ethereal feel.
Kelly Apter, The List 28/02/2008
Tenderhook is a compelling symbiosis of movement and light.
Kelly Apter, The Scotsman 23/02/2008
..with a company who work incredibly well as a unit, and a dusky lighting design from Jon Clark, the overall result is a piece of thought-provoking and visually appealing dance.
Thom Dibdin, The Stage 07/09/2007

I Capuleti e I Montecchi

Robert Innes Hopkins' design is effective and pretty non-specific, allowing his stylish costumes and Jon Clark's striking lighting to make their strong effects.
Robert Hugill, Music & Vision 12/07/2007

Jenufa

...the execution leads to considerable dramatic effect, not least because of how the moody lighting (original design by Adam Silverman, modified for WNO by Jon Clark) underscores the narrative shifts.
Charles Downey, DCist 07/05/2007

How Much Is Your Iron?

But it's the design team who carry the show. Dick Bird's Amazonian set, lit smokily by Jon Clark, is a fantasy world to delight in...[the] production is both beautifully simple and simply beautiful.
Kieron Quirke, The Evening Standard 07/04/2025
Jon Clark's lighting soaks the piece in a subtle haze of alienation.
london-se1.co.uk 27/04/2007

The Jewish Wife

In Katie Mitchell's heart-rendering setting of The Jewish Wife, Anastasia Hille crouches in her slip amid the nude-coloured silks and furs of her half-packed belongings, moving quietly in and out of the lamplight, casting huge distorted shadows as looming music punctuates her monologue. It's elegiac and subtly implies the panic of a generation by blending its heroine into the background.
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