Nic Farman
Biography
Nic Farman is a Lighting Designer based in the UK and working internationally. He has worked on a variety of different productions, ranging from new writing and classic texts, to musicals, opera and dance.
Winner of The Worshipful Company of Lightmongers & ALD Award for New Talent in Entertainment Lighting 2016
Winner of the 'Francis Reid Award' as part of the Association of Lighting Designers Michael Northen Bursary in 2013.
Nominated four times for Best Lighting Designer at the 'Off West End Awards’, most recently for Night of the Living Dead at Pleasance Theatre, London.
Musicals include:
Broken Wings (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Billionaire Boy (Nuffield City, Southampton & UK Tour), The Toxic Avenger (Arts Theatre & Southwark Playhouse), A Little Princess (Royal Festival Hall), Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester), Liver Birds Flying Home (Liverpool Royal Court), Unexpected Joy; Working (Southwark Playhouse), How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Wilton’s Music Hall), Newsies; Priscilla; The Life (ArtsEd), The Stripper (St James Studio), Dusty (Auzura, P&O Cruises), Children of Eden(Union Theatre), Dracula! (Soho Theatre), Holy Crap; Shock Treatment (King’s Head Theatre)
Theatre includes:
Night of the Living Dead (Pleasance Theatre, London), Tonight: The Eighties(National Theatre, Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Centre, Kuwait & Middle Eastern Tour), Kindertransport (Queens Theatre Hornchurch, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg & UK Tour), The Invisible Man (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch), A Guide for the Homesick; Coming Clean; 3 Women; Late Company (Trafalgar Studios), Jack and the Beanstalk (Salisbury Playhouse), Spindrift (The Garage, Norwich & The Drum, Plymouth), Cosi; F*cking Men (King’s Head Theatre), Peter Pan; Positive (Park Theatre), Jack and the Beanstalk (Derngate, Northampton), Romeo and Juliet (Newbury Corn Exchange & National Tour), The Little Mermaid(Riverside Studios), The Laramie Project (Leicester Curve)
Opera includes:
La Boheme (Trafalgar Studios), La Traviata; Madam Butterfly; Cosi Fan Tutte(King’s Head Theatre), The Immortal Hour (Finborough Theatre)
Previous productions
Previous productions
Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative Team | Opened |
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Liver Birds Flying Home | Musical | Royal Court Liverpool | Lighting Designer |
Director: Benji Sperring |
Apr 2018 |
Spring Awakening | Musical |
Hope Mill Theatre DEM Productions, Aria Entertainment |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Luke Sheppard Set designer: Gabriella Slade |
Mar 2018 |
Kindertransport | Theatre |
The Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, then touring The Queens Theatre, Hornchurch |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Anne Simon Set designer: Marie-Luce Theis |
Mar 2018 |
Rock & Bowl Festival | Concert |
Market Drayton Park EMCd Productions |
Lighting Designer | May 2017 | |
Urinetown | Musical | Pleasance London | Lighting Designer |
Director: Josh Seymour Set designer: Adrian Gee |
May 2017 |
Late Company | Theatre | Finborough Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Michael Yale Set designer: Zahra Mansouri |
Apr 2017 |
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Musical | Wilton's Music Hall | Lighting Designer |
Director: Benji Sperring Set designer: Mike Lees |
Apr 2017 |
Madam Butterfly | Opera | Kings Head Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Paul Higgins Set designer: Luke W. Robson |
Feb 2017 |
Jack & The Beanstalk | Theatre |
Northampton Derngate Qdos Pantomimes |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Stewart Nicholls |
Dec 2016 |
Little Red Riding Hood | Theatre | Chelsea Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Owen Calvert-Lyons Set designer: Amy Yardley |
Nov 2016 |
Spindrift | Theatre |
The Garage, Norwich Curious Directive |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jack Lowe |
May 2016 |
The Toxic Avenger | Musical |
Southwark Playhouse - Large Aria Entertainment |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Benji Sperring |
Apr 2016 |
Balm in Gilead | Theatre |
Arcola Theatre Mountview College |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Joseph Blatchley Set designer: Madeline Herbert |
Mar 2016 |
The Crucible | Theatre |
Arcola Theatre Mountview College |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Caitriona McLaughlin Set designer: Adrian Gee |
Mar 2016 |
Cosi Fan Tutte | Opera | Kings Head Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Paul Higgins Set designer: Faye Bradley |
Mar 2016 |
Cosi | Theatre | Kings Head Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Wayne Harrison Set designer: Faye Bradley |
Mar 2016 |
A Local Boy | Theatre |
Brighton Dome, then touring Invertigo Theatre Company |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Rae McKen Set designer: Bethany Wells |
Feb 2016 |
The Spanish Tragedy | Theatre | Old Red Lion Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Dan Hutton Set designer: Lizzy Leech |
Feb 2016 |
F*cking Men | Theatre | Kings Head Theatre, Islington | Lighting Designer |
Director: Geoffrey Hyland Set designer: Jamie Simmons |
Aug 2015, Dec 2015 |
Tartuffe | Theatre |
Headgate Theatre, Colchester, then touring Theatrical Niche |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Venetia Twigg Set designer: Amanda Mascarenhas |
Oct 2015 |
The Win Bin | Theatre | Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington | Lighting Designer |
Director: Sara Joyce Set designer: Bethany Wells |
Sep 2015 |
F*cking Men | Theatre | Kings Head Theatre, Islington | Lighting Designer |
Director: Geoffrey Hyland Set designer: Jamie Simmons |
Aug 2015, Dec 2015 |
Positive | Theatre |
Park Theatre Ann Pinnington |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Harry Burton Set designer: Marcio Santarosa |
Jul 2015 |
Rock and Bowl Festival | Concert |
Market Drayton Park EMCd Productions |
Lighting Designer | May 2015 | |
Shock Treatment | Musical |
Kings Head Theatre Tarquin Productions |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Benji Sperring Set designer: Tim Shortall |
Apr 2015 |
A Level Playing Field | Theatre | Shoreditch Town Hall + UEA Studio | Lighting Designer |
Director: Harry Burton Set designer: Sabrina Giles |
Mar 2015, Apr 2015 |
A Level Playing Field | Theatre | Shoreditch Town Hall + UEA Studio | Lighting Designer |
Director: Harry Burton Set designer: Sabrina Giles |
Mar 2015, Apr 2015 |
Daisy Pulls It Off | Theatre | Shoreditch Town Hall | Lighting Designer |
Director: Abbey Wright/Peter Stickney Set designer: Justin Williams |
Mar 2015 |
The Heart of Things | Theatre | Jermyn Street Theatre, London | Lighting Designer |
Director: Knight Mantell Set designer: Joana Dias |
Mar 2015 |
Lysistrata | Theatre |
Mumford Theatre Cambridge, then touring Theatrical Niche |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Alice Sillett Set designer: Amanda Mascarenhas |
Mar 2015 |
Macbeth | Theatre | Lost Theatre, London | Lighting Designer |
Director: David Shopland |
Feb 2015 |
Dracula! (Mr Swallow The Musical) | Musical |
Soho Theatre Invisible Dot |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Matt Peover Set designer: Fly Davis |
Feb 2015 |
Pig Girl | Theatre | Finborough Theatre, London | Lighting Designer |
Director: Helen Donnelly Set designer: Zoe Hammond |
Jan 2015 |
- Worldwide
Contact method | Details |
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Email address | |
Website |
nicfarmanlightingdesign.com |
Agent name | John Rogerson |
Agent email | john@collectiveagents.co.uk |
- International
- Commercial Tour
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
- Fringe / Pub Theatre
- Education Establishment
- Touring relights
- West End
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
- Small Scale / Fringe
- Pantomime
- Education Establishment
- Small scale
- International Event
- Festival
- Conferences
- Exhibition Stands
- Lectures
- Workshops
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