NICK RICHINGS LIGHTING DESIGNER 

Website www.nickrichings.com

Nicks recent work include: Beauty & The Beast (Germany); Ghost the Musical (Paris) Cruel Intentions (Edinburgh Festival); Reputation (The Other Palace); Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep); The Rocky Horror Show (South Africa and UK Tour); The Nightingales (Bath Theatre Royal and UK Tour); Next to Normal, Tuesdays with Morrie, Closer (Vienna English Theatre); Fat Friends the Musical, (UK tour); Saturday Night Fever (Tokyo, Germany & UK Tour); Touched (Nottingham Playhouse).

Nick’s West End Designs include: The Glenn Miller Story (London Coliseum); Nell Gwynn (Apollo Theatre & Shakespeare’s Globe); Forbidden Broadway & Just Jim Dale (Vaudeville Theatre); Monty Python’s Spamalot (Playhouse Theatre); Simply the Best (Savoy Theatre); La Cage Aux Folles, Olivier Award winner Best musical revival 2009, with a transfer to Broadway (Tony nomination best lighting and Tony award winner Best Musical 2010), Damon Albarn’s Monkey: Journey to the West, at the Royal Opera House (also North America, Paris and the O2), Spamalot (Playhouse Theatre), Whistle Down the Wind  (Palace Theatre and U.S. Tour), The Rocky Horror Show (Playhouse Theatre), Beautiful & Damned (Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (New London Theatre), The Mystery of Charles Dickens at the (then Albery Theatre), which enjoyed a successful run on Broadway, Aspects of Love, (Prince of Wales Theatre), 42nd Street, Barnum, and nemerous Pantomimes (Dominion Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol, and Scrooge starring Tommy Steele both at the (London Palladium), A Slip of the Tongue, with John Malkovich (Shaftesbury Theatre), and Derren Brown - Something Wicked This Way Comes (winner 2006 Olivier Award best entertainment) at the Cambridge Theatre. 

UK tours include: Saturday Night Fever, The Rocky Horror Show, Cilla the Musical, Ghost, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Glenn Miller Story, The Sound of Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Starlight Express, Spamalot, Strictly Come Dancing: The Professionals, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Armstrong and Miller - Live, The Rocky Horror Show, Blood Brothers, Jekyll & Hyde, and Laughter in the Rain. 

Nick's Regional Rep work includes; While the Sun Shines, Time and the Conways (Theatre Royal Bath); Ladykillers, Witches of Eastwick, Sleuth, Ben Hur, Marriage of Figaro (Watermill Theatre); over 35 shows for the Library Theatre Company in Manchester including; Mother Courage, The Seagull, The Heretic, A Dolls House, Glenn Gary Glenn Ross, Great Expectations, Faith Healer; Touched, The Price, Our Man in Havana, Hound of the Baskervilles, Travesties (Nottingham Playhouse); Sweet Charity, Midsummer Songs, Mods and Rox, Guys and Dolls (New Wolsey Ipswich); The Recruiting Officer, The Maid of Butterworth (Theatre by the Lake Keswick).

International work includes A Sigh of Love, Shanghai Ballet, Farewell my Concubine in Beijing, The Rocky Horror Show, Korea, Singapore and New Zealand, Grease, which is playing major cities across Europe, Cinderella in Japan, Mary Poppins, The Producers, Beauty and the Beast, and Chess in Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm. 

Nick has worked extensively throughout the UK’s regional repertory theatres. Shows include Spend Spend Spend at the Watermill Theatre (TMA winner Best Regional Musical 2009) and over 35 shows for the Library Theatre Company in Manchester. He also designed the lighting for the Library Theatre Company’s production of Hard Times at Murrays’ Mills in summer 2011, for which he won a Manchester Theatre Award for best design, alongside Designer Judith Croft and Sound Designer Peter Rice.