Emma Chapman
Biography
Emma trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where she was the winner of the Douglas Morris Award for Touring.
Future credits include: Time Lapse (Resolution 2010, The Place); Wet Weather Cover (King's Head Theatre); The Hostage (Southwark Playhouse); Comedians (Bolton Octagon).
Recent credits include: The Ones That Flutter (Theatre 503); The Spanish Tragedy (Arcola); Public Property (Trafalgar Studios 2); A Christmas Carol (Sherman Cymru); The Mountaintop (Trafalgar Studios 1 / Theatre 503); You Can See The Hills (Young Vic); Inches Apart (Old Vic New Voices); Wagstaffe (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Small Change (Sherman Cymru); The Lifesavers (Theatre 503 / Colchester); 50 Ways to Leave your Lover at Christmas (The Bush Theatre); You Can See The Hills (Royal Exchange, Manchester / Young Vic); Cherry Docs (Kings Head Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Middle Temple Hall); Semi-Monde (Guildhall School of Music and Drama); Mules (Young Vic).
Other credits include: Some Kind of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios 2); Closer (Northampton Theatre Royal); Not a Game for Boys (Library Theatre, Manchester); The Importance of Being Earnest (Derby Playhouse); Bash (Trafalgar Studios 2); Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre); The Pied Piper (Opera North); Phaedra's Love (Young Genesis Season, Barbican); Attempts on her Life (BAC); High Society (Aberystwyth Arts Centre/Swansea Grand).
Previous productions
Forthcoming productions
| Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative team | Opens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inches Apart | Theatre |
Theatre 503 Old Vic New Voices |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Rachel Briscoe Set designer: Joanna Scotcher |
01 Dec 2099 |
Current credits
| Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative team | Closes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Closer | Theatre | Northampton Theatre Royal | Lighting Designer |
Director: Tamara Harvey Set designer: Lucy Osborne |
23 Mar 2100 |
| Beautiful Thing | Theatre | Sound Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Toby Frow Set designer: Ben Stones |
24 Mar 2100 |
| Phaedra's Love | Theatre | Young Genesis, Barbican Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Anne Tipton Set designer: Naomi Dawson |
25 Mar 2100 |
| Musical of Musicals | Theatre | Sound Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Julian Woolford Set designer: Ben Stones |
26 Mar 2100 |
| The Wind in the Willows | Theatre | Sevenoaks Playhouse | Lighting Designer |
Director: Julian Woolford Set designer: Charles Camm |
27 Mar 2100 |
| The Railway Children | Theatre | Sevenoaks Playhouse | Lighting Designer |
Director: Julian Woolford Set designer: Charles Camm |
28 Mar 2100 |
| Semi-Monde | Theatre | Guildhall School of Music and Drama | Lighting Designer |
Director: Alistair McGowan Set designer: Atlanta Duffy |
29 Mar 2100 |
| The Lifesavers | Theatre | Theatre 503 / Mercury Theatre, Colchester | Lighting Designer |
Director: Paul Robinson Set designer: Helen Goddard |
30 Mar 2100 |
| Small Change | Theatre | Sherman Cymru | Lighting Designer |
Director: Amy Hodge Set designer: Patrick Burnier |
31 Mar 2100 |
| You can see the hills | Theatre | Young Vic (Maria) | Lighting Designer |
Director: Matthew Dunster Set designer: Anna Fleischle |
01 Apr 2100 |
| Mules | Theatre |
Clare Studio Young Vic Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Amy Hodge Set designer: Lorna Ritchie |
02 Apr 2100 |
| You can see the hills | Theatre | Studio, Manchester Royal Exchange and Clare Studio, Young Vic Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Matthew Dunster Set designer: Anna Fleischle |
03 Apr 2100 |
| Riders to the Sea | Theatre | Southwark Playhouse | Lighting Designer |
Director: Charlotte Gwinner Set designer: Ben Stones |
04 Apr 2100 |
| Romeo and Juliet | Theatre |
Middle Temple Hall Theatre of Memory |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Tamara Harvey Set designer: Jenny Tiramani |
05 Apr 2100 |
| Bash | Theatre |
Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre of Memory |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Tamara Harvey Set designer: Rob Howell |
06 Apr 2100 |
| Some Kind of Bliss | Theatre | Trafalgar Studios 2 | Lighting Designer |
Director: Toby Frow Set designer: Lucy Osborne |
07 Apr 2100 |
| Inches Apart | Theatre |
Theatre 503 Old Vic New Voices |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Rachel Briscoe Set designer: Joanna Scotcher |
08 Apr 2100 |
| Wagstaffe | Theatre |
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Mercury Theatre |
Lighting Designer |
Director: Janice Dunn Set designer: Joanna Scotcher |
09 Apr 2100 |
| High Society | Theatre | Aberystwyth Arts Centre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Deborah Shaw Set designer: Scott Ramsay |
10 Apr 2100 |
Previous productions
| Show name | Type | Venue/Company | Role | Creative Team | Opened |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wet Weather Cover | Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: Kate Fahy Set designer: Tanya McCallin |
Jan 2010 | |
| The Ones That Flutter | Theatre | Theatre 503 | Lighting Designer |
Director: Abbey Wright Set designer: Helen Goddard |
Sep 2009 |
| The Mountaintop | Theatre | Trafalgar Studios 1 | Lighting Designer |
Director: James Dacre Set designer: Libby Watson |
Jul 2009 |
| The Mountaintop | Theatre | Lighting Designer |
Director: James Dacre Set designer: Libby Watson |
Jun 2009 |
Location availability:
- Worldwide
| Contact method | Details |
|---|---|
| Agent name |
Richard Haigh |
| Agent website | |
| Agent phone |
0207 255 1362 |
| Agent email |
Theatre:
- West End
- Commercial Tour
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
- Fringe / Pub Theatre
- Touring relights
Musical:
- Regional (Main House)
- Regional (Studio)
Opera:
- Small scale
- Touring relights
Dance:
- International
- Large Scale
News
Appearing here soon... a collection of articles from the Focus magazine archives.
Press quotes
The Ones That Flutter
'The acting and staging really are outstanding, delivering emotional pyrotechnics with the requisite force time after time.''
Time Out 24/09/2009
'Helen Goddard has created a remarkably versatile set which copes with the different environments with ease and believability. Her set is complimented by Emma Chapman's highly evocative lighting design. These two vital elements firmly propel the audience into Roddy's world, and more importantly into his mind.''
Skye Crawford, Fringe Review 18/09/2009
The Mountaintop
James Dacre's production works well, with imaginative lighting from Emma Chapman
Winston Yap, TheatreFix 13/08/2009
Richard Hammarton's music & sound and Emma Chapman's lighting design are very effective.
Sheila Cornelius, 03/08/2009
'The author grew up in Memphis, a child of the post-civil rights era who benefited from the changes King could only glimpse from his mountaintop. She and her creative team have honoured his memory in this powerful play.''
Jeremy Kingston, The Times 17/06/2009
Small Change
The telling is exquisite to witness
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian 02/04/2009
Patrick Burnier's set design exquisitely recreates the pre-barrage mud flats of Cardiff Bay and along with Emma Chapman's lighting and the subtle sound design of Adrienne Quartly the greyness of life's atmosphere is perfectly caught
Michael Kelligan, Theatre in Wales 31/03/2009
The Lifesavers
Chapman and Hammerton have the audience on constant knife point with their powerful and frightening combination of hollow, claustrophobic and stark prison sounds and lighting.
Skye Crawford, Fringe Review 19/02/2009
This production is very highly recommended not only for its brave new writing, but the quality of all elements merging together to produce a powerful and memorable night out at the theatre.
Skye Crawford, Fringe Review 19/02/2009
Helen Goddard (set design), Emma Chapman (lighting design) and Richard Hammerton (sound design) are to be highly applauded for their dead on target, explosive design skills.
Skye Crawford, Fringe Review 19/02/2009
Beautiful Thing
Critics Choice
Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard
Critics Choice
Time Out
The Railway Children
Staging the show in which trains play such a large part requires clever effects to kick-start the imagination and this is achieved especially well, aided by terrific lighting and sound effects.
Caroline Hardy, Sevenoaks Chronicle 08/12/2005
Phaedra's Love
Blending tragic emotion with the age of junk food, there's nothing disposable about the dialogue; every utterance moves the action forward and Anne Tipton's production - beautifully lit by Emma Chapman so that at one point the burning Phaedra disappears in a red haze - has a matching finesse.
Dominic Cavendish, The Daily Telegraph 31/10/2005
The Wind in the Willows
Part of the charm of this lovely production comes from its simplicity. The set works exceptionally well as does Emma Chapman's lighting, no more than in the beguiling Sail Away number, when Rat and Mole gently cruise down the 'river'.
Caroline Hardy, Sevenoaks Chronicle 16/12/2004
High Society
Emma Chapman's lighting lends depth and motion
Rebecca Nesvet, Theatre in Wales 05/08/2001
