Alex Forey
Biography
Alex’s work as lighting designer includes: Polyeucte (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Libuše, Rhapsody, From Here To Eternity (Bloomsbury Theatre), Babel (Lyric Hammersmith), over ten shows for Wimbledon College of Arts including Killology, Network, and Three Sisters; Into The Woods, Exhibition (Shaw Theatre), Daisy Pulls It Off, Written on the Body (Cockpit Theatre), Songs for a New World (Drayton Arms), The Piper of Hamelin (Rose Kingston), Grey Matter, Twelfth Night (Edinburgh Fringe). As associate lighting designer: Quintessential (Peacock Theatre, Sadler’s Wells), Legally Blonde, The Drowsy Chaperone, RENT (Pleasance), Modern Love (Etcetera Theatre). As assistant/relighter: Growl (Curve Leicester, and tour), as assistant: Parade, Legend Trippers, Anything Goes (The Other Palace). He is a graduate from RADA where he specialised in Lighting Design. Previously he studied at University College London before switching to drama full-time. He was awarded the Vectorworks Design Entertainment Scholarship in 2021, and two UCL Design Awards. In between designs, Alex has worked as a technician for Ammonite (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Back To The Future The Musical, The Mirror and the Light), and at Wyndham’s Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Donmar Warehouse, the Lyric Hammersmith, and elsewhere.
Previous productions
Previous productions
Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative Team | Opened |
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The Creation | Concert |
St John's Smith Square Scherzo Ensemble |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Matthew O'Keefe |
Apr 2024 |
Hide and Seek | Theatre |
Park Theatre - Park90 Park Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Carlotta Brentan Set designer: Constance Comparot |
Mar 2024 |
21 Round for Christmas | Theatre |
Park Theatre - Park90 Park Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Toby Hampton Set designer: Toby Hampton and Laurel Marks |
Dec 2023 |
Sleeping Beauty | Theatre |
Mercury Theatre Mercury Theatre |
Associate Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Matt Ladkin Director: Ryan McBryde Set designer: Jasmine Swan |
Nov 2023 |
The Realness | Musical |
The Big House Theatre The Big House |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Maggie Norris |
Nov 2023 |
Seize the Cheese! | Musical | New Wimbledon Studio | Lighting Designer |
Director: Mike Stocks |
Nov 2023 |
The Island | Theatre |
Cervantes Theatre Cervantes Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jessica Lazar |
Sep 2023 |
Battersea Bardot | Musical | New Wimbledon Studio | Lighting Designer |
Director: Elizabeth Huskisson Set designer: Emily Munt |
Sep 2023 |
waiting for a train at the bus stop | Theatre |
Summerhall, Edinburgh Visual Sauce |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Mwansa Phiri |
Aug 2023 |
Lovefool | Theatre |
The Coronet Theatre, then touring Théâtre National du Luxembourg |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Gintare Parulyte |
May 2023, Aug 2023 |
Purgatorio: Post-Traumatic Growth in Penge | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Art |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Natasha Harrison Set designer: Anna Williams |
May 2023 |
Paradiso: Eden | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Art |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Shane Dempsey Set designer: Anna Williams |
May 2023 |
Air Time | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Art |
Lighting Designer | May 2023 | |
Oh The Horror! | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art innominate |
Lighting Designer | May 2023 | |
Lovefool | Theatre |
The Coronet Theatre, then touring Théâtre National du Luxembourg |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Gintare Parulyte |
May 2023, Aug 2023 |
Face Down in the Dirt | Theatre |
King's Head Theatre Take My Word |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Lauren Carter |
May 2023 |
Kitty in the Lane | Theatre |
Brockley Jack Studio Perform |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Áine Ryan Set designer: Constance Comparot |
May 2023 |
Our Father | Theatre | Barons Court Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Mo Korede Set designer: Ieva Ievina |
Apr 2023 |
Good Day | Theatre |
Network Theatre, Vault Festival Double Telling |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Marlie Haco Set designer: Justin Nardella |
Mar 2023 |
Saint Hildegard | Theatre |
Pit, The Vaults Bound By Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Kristin Winters |
Feb 2023 |
Paddy Goes to Petra | Theatre |
Brockley Jack Theatre Studio Perform |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Áine Ryan Set designer: Constance Comparot |
Nov 2022 |
Ghislaine/Gabler | Theatre |
The Playground Theatre Bound By Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Kristin Winters |
Oct 2022 |
Black el Payaso | Opera |
Cervantes Theatre Cervantes Theatre |
Associate Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Lucia Sánchez Roldán Director: Paula Paz Set designer: Caitlin Abbott |
Sep 2022 |
Message in a Clay River | Theatre |
Cockpit Theatre Imagiphoria Studios |
Lighting Designer | Set designer: Ieva Ievina | Aug 2022 |
Ghislaine/Gabler | Theatre |
The Coronet Theatre Bound By Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Kristin Winters |
Jul 2022 |
Till Death Do We Part | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art SnapFuse Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jodie Leigh Armstrong & Lara van Huyssteen |
Jun 2022 |
Killology | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art KMT Productions |
Lighting Designer | Jun 2022 | |
Mums | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art Psychonaut Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Karola Kosecka |
Jun 2022 |
Honey Badger | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Art |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Juraj Benko |
Jun 2022 |
Cry-Baby | Musical |
Avondale Theatre Italia Conti |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Benji Sperring |
Mar 2022 |
Carrie | Musical |
Avondale Theatre Italia Conti |
Lighting Designer |
Director: David Willoughby |
Mar 2022 |
Footloose | Musical |
Avondale Theatre Italia Conti |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Dean Johnson |
Mar 2022 |
Electra | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Art / Lyric Hammersmith |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Mo Korede Set designer: Ieva Ievina |
Feb 2022 |
Three Sisters | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Art / Lyric Hammersmith |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Alessandra Davison Set designer: Sonya Smullen |
Feb 2022 |
Yerma | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Art / Lyric Hammersmith |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jessica Mensah Set designer: Raffi Philcox |
Feb 2022 |
The Importance of Being Earnest | Theatre |
Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Art / Lyric Hammersmith |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Samara Gannon Set designer: Fiona Wagstaff |
Feb 2022 |
Julius Caesar | Theatre |
Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre (RADA) Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Che Walker Set designer: Anita Gander |
Dec 2021 |
Wonders Beyond Numbers | Theatre | Bloomsbury Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Johnny Ball |
Sep 2021 |
Monster | Theatre |
John Gielgud Theatre (RADA) Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Dadiow Lin Set designer: Isabel Nellie Walters |
Jul 2021 |
Daisy Pulls It Off | Theatre |
Cockpit Theatre The Bridge TTC |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Jasmine Teo |
Jul 2021 |
Red Velvet | Theatre |
Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre (RADA) Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
Lighting Programmer |
Lighting designer: Roberto Esquenazi Alkabez Director: Anni Domingo Set designer: Natalie Pryce |
Jun 2021 |
Graduate Tree | Theatre |
Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre (RADA) Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) |
Lighting Designer | Apr 2021 | |
Manifestos | Theatre |
RADA Studios, London Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) |
Lighting Designer | Nov 2020 | |
Growl | Musical |
Curve Theatre Leicester NYMT |
Assistant Lighting Designer |
Lighting designer: Zoe Spurr Director: Richard Fitch Set designer: Richard Cooper |
May 2019 |
Libuše | Opera |
Bloomsbury Theatre UCOpera |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Cecilia Stinton Set designer: Holly Muir |
Mar 2019 |
Songs For A New World | Musical |
The Drayton Arms Theatre UCLMTS |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Suriyah Rashid |
Mar 2019 |
Rhapsody | Concert |
Bloomsbury Theatre UCL Live Music |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Björn Franke |
Jan 2019 |
Polyeucte | Opera |
Theatre Royal Stratford East UCOpera |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Thomas Guthrie Set designer: Raphaé Memon |
Mar 2018 |
Into The Woods | Musical |
Shaw Theatre UCLMTS |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Olivia Burgin Set designer: Arya Bhomick |
Feb 2018 |
Babel | Theatre |
Lyric Hammersmith Studio SPASM |
Lighting Designer | Jul 2017 | |
Written on Skin | Theatre |
Cockpit Theatre Rich Creative |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Emily Warren et al |
Jun 2017 |
A Sexual Odyssey | Theatre |
Cockpit Theatre Rich Creative |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Emily Warren et al |
Mar 2017 |
Grey Matter | Theatre |
C venues (Edinburgh) SPASM |
Lighting Designer | Aug 2016 |
- UK London
Contact method | Details |
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Email address | hello@alexforey.com |
@alexforey |
- West End
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
- Fringe / Pub Theatre
- Education Establishment
- West End
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
- Small Scale / Fringe
- Education Establishment
- Small scale
- Education Establishment
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