Simon Bennison
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Simon Bennison
Lighting Designer
Lighting for dance : METAMORPHOSIS TITIAN, BELLA DELLA REGINA, LES LUTINS, THE LESSON, RENARD, NON LINEAR INTERACTIONS, TRIP-TRAC, LEIDER, CONSOLATIONS & LIEBERSTRAUM (Royal Ballet); ECHO, DUST, ARCANA, GHOSTS, ASYLA, BEFORE THE TEMPEST….. AFTER THE STORM, BROKEN FICTION, SOPHIE, STATELESS, BETWEEN SHADOWS, UNSTRUNG TENSION, THREE UNSPOKEN WORDS, and TRACES (Cathy Marston/Royal Ballet/Bern Ballet); SEA OF TROUBLES (English National Ballet); IN A MINOR KEY (MIkhailovsky Ballet); ITHACA (Ivan Putrov/Men in Motion); POINTLESS (George Piper Dances, Ballet Boyz); AFSKED (Kim Brandstrup); PALIMPSEST (Shobana Jeyasingh); 120 BIRDS (Liz Lea); THE SELF (Fin Walker); TRI (Ben Wright); DANGER MEN AT WORK PLAY! (Kenneth Tharp), LARYNX (Lisa Torun); BINOCULAR (Wayne McGregor); THE NATURE OF TOUCH (Adam Cooper); TICK and LAST NIGHT AT THE EMPIRE (Tom Sapsford); NOW (Jonathan Watkins); DONʼT HATE THE PLAYER HATE THE GAME, YES WE DID (Kristen McNally); RECORDATO, DUPLICITY (Ludovic Ondiviela); ONE SHADE MORE (Vanessa Fenton); HALLELUJAH JUNCTION (Erico Montes); DEAR NORMAN (Christopher Hampson); TRAVELLING LIGHT, OUT OF THE ORDINARY, HIS & HERS, CLOSER, ON THE BONE, LOCK STOCK AND BARREL, SHAME (Emma Diamond); THE GARDEN, B+B4, GOURMET, DANGEROUS WHEN WET, SWEET BOY (Claire Russ); MR BEAR SQUASH YOU ALL FLAT, UNOBTRUSIVE DETAIL (William Tuckett); AIRES DE VILLA Y CORTE (Ballet Nacional dʼEspana); GONE TOMORROW (Matthew Hawkins); JYROSCAPE (Imalata Dance Company); FORBIDDEN FRUIT (Matthew Hart); UNDINE (David Bintley); CELESTIAL SPACES (Christopher Wheeldon); As well as pieces for Stuttgart Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet and Irek Mukhamedov.
Lighting for theatre : SPLENDID ISOLATION (Pleasance Theatre); TWELFTH NIGHT (Ludlow Festival); COMEDIANS (Hammersmith Lyric); EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED (Hampstead Theatre); THE WORLDʼS BIGGEST DIAMOND, BLACK MILK (The Royal Court Theatre); THE PRICE (Tricycle Theatre/West End); HOME, SERJEANT MUSGRAVEʼS DANCE, COMEDIANS, THE CONTRACTOR, TROILUS & CRESSIDA (Oxford Stage Company); SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION, A LIE OF THE MIND (Dundee Repertory Theatre; HOLES IN THE SKIN (Minerva Theatre); NORMAL, HOWIE THE ROOKIE, and YARD (Bush Theatre); OWNER OCCUPIER (Arcola Theatre); THE LADYʼS NOT FOR BURNING (Finborough Theatre); TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (Cottesloe Theatre); DEATH OF A FAUN (St. Clements Theatre/NY); PENTHESILIA, ANATOL (RADA).
Lighting for opera : CARMEN (English Touring Opera); RITA, THE BEAR, 2008 JPYAP SUMMER CONCERT, 2011 VENEZIANA SUMMER CONCERT (Royal Opera); SWANHUNTER (Opera North).
Lighting for events : Nitin Sawhney (IMAX/BFI); The Digital Interlude (Samsung/Sydney Olympics).
SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION was nominated for Best Design in the 2004 Critic’s Awards for Theatre in Scotland. IN A MINOR KEY was nominated for Best Dance Lighting Design at the 2011 Golden Mask Awards in Russia.
From Lancashire, trained in music at Salford Music College, lighting and design at RADA with Neil Fraser, at the Yale School of Drama with Jennifer Tipton and in architecture at the University of North London.
He is also a Lighting Manager for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, assisting on new productions, lighting revivals, and lighting Royal Opera and Royal Ballet pieces abroad and on tour.
