Photograph from Choose Your Fighter - lighting design by SamOsborne
Photographer: Lucy Hayes | From the show Choose Your Fighter
Photograph from Choose Your Fighter - lighting design by SamOsborne
Photographer: Lucy Hayes | From the show Choose Your Fighter
Photograph from Barbara - lighting design by SamOsborne
Photographer: Lee Baxter | From the show Barbara
Photograph from Stranger Sings - lighting design by SamOsborne
Photographer: Giulia Paratelli | From the show Stranger Sings
Photograph from Choose Your Fighter - lighting design by SamOsborne
Photographer: Lucy Hayes | From the show Choose Your Fighter
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Sam Osborne

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Biography

Sam Osborne is a lighting designer, production manager and technical programmer based in Nottingham. He designs, relights, and programs for theatre, dance, and musicals, from fringe to mid-scale.

As Lighting Designer: Choose Your Fighter (Votive Theatre); Barbara (Mark Croasdale); Full Moon (GOBS Collective); Bull (Sondorous Theatre); Maryland (New Perspectives); Provocation (Phone Box).

As Associate Lighting Designer: Abandoman: Future Fest (LD: Clancy Flynn, Underbelly); The Lost Spells (LD: Sherry Coenen, Goblin Theatre); There's a Rang-Tan in My Room (LD: Sherry Coenen; Little Angel Theatre); A Christmas Carol (LD: Joshua Carr; Hull Truck Theatre); Stranger Sings (LD: Clancy Flynn; The Vaults); THEM (LD: Chloe Kenward, Body Politic).

He was a Lumiere in 2020, under mentorship of Sherry Coenen.

Previous productions

Forthcoming productions

Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative team Opens
The Winter's Tale Theatre Attenborough Arts Centre, then touring
1623 Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Ben Spiller
Set designer: Nikki Charlesworth
06 Dec 2024, 10 Jan 2025

Current credits

Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative team Closes
The Ugly Duckling Theatre Neville Studio, Nottingham Playhouse
Nottingham Playhouse
Lighting Designer Director: Laura Ryder
Set designer: Alexandrea Hopkin-Spratt
06 Jan 2025

Previous productions

Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
The Winter's Tale Theatre Attenborough Arts Centre, then touring
1623 Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Ben Spiller
Set designer: Nikki Charlesworth
Dec 2024, Jan 2025
Uncanny Theatre Curve Theatre, Leicester, Studio, then touring
Tilted Sessions
Lighting Programmer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
Director: Sam Hodges
Set designer: Zoe Hurwitz
Oct 2023
Barbara Theatre The Edge Theatre and Arts Centre Manchester
Mark Croasdale
Lighting Designer Director: Mark Croasdale
Set designer: Hannah Sibai
Jun 2023
Choose Your Fighter Theatre Camden People's Theatre
Votive Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Amy Crighton
Set designer: Lucy Sneddon
May 2023, Apr 2022
A Christmas Carol Theatre Hull Truck Theatre
Hull Truck Theatre
Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Joshua Carr
Director: Sameena Hussain
Set designer: Hayley Grindle
Nov 2022
Stranger Sings Musical The Vaults, then touring
The Vaults
Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Clancy Flynn
Director: Ellis Kerkhoven
Set designer: Justin Williams
Oct 2022
Choose Your Fighter Theatre Camden People's Theatre
Votive Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Amy Crighton
Set designer: Lucy Sneddon
May 2023, Apr 2022
Bull Theatre Crescent Theatre Studio
Sonderous Theatre
Lighting Designer Director: Matt Lewinton
Feb 2022
Location availability:
  • UK London
  • UK Provinces
Theatre:
  • Regional (Main House)
  • Small Scale Touring
  • Fringe / Pub Theatre
  • Touring relights
Musical:
  • Regional (Main House)
  • Small Scale / Fringe
Dance:
  • Medium Scale
  • Small Scale
  • Touring relights
Concert:
  • Club
  • Festival
  • Touring relights
Corporate:
  • Conferences
  • Award Ceremonies
Architectural:
  • Displays & Art

News

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