Hugh Vanstone

Hugh Vanstone is a British lighting designer who won the 1999 [ [http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98534/Olivier-Winners-1999/ 1999 Olivier Award Winners] ] , 2001 [ [http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98536/Olivier-Winners-2001/ 2001 Olivier Award Winners] ] and 2004 [ [http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98547/Olivier-Winners-2004/ 2004 Olivier Award Winners] ] Laurence Olivier Award for "Best Lighting Design".

He has designed lighting for plays, musicals and operas in London, New York and around the world. He received three Olivier Awards for his work in London, including for "Pacific Overtures" (Donmar Warehouse) in 2004, for "The Cherry Orchard" and "The Graduate" in 2001, and for "The Unexpected Man" and "The Blue Room" in 1999.

Career

He has designed lighting for numerous London productions, including "Desperately Seeking Susan"; "Howard Katz" (Royal National Theatre) and "The Caretaker" (Comedy Theatre), both directed by Patrick Marber; "Mouth To Mouth", directed by Ian Rickson (Royal Court and Albery Theatres); "The Graduate", directed by Terry Johnson (Gielgud Theatre); "Dr Dolittle" (Apollo, Hammersmith) and "Antony and Cleopatra" (Royal Shakespeare Company), both directed by Steven Pimlott; "Orpheus Descending" (Donmar Warehouse) and "The Lady In the Van" (Queen’s Theatre), both directed by Nicholas Hytner; "The Cherry Orchard" directed by Trevor Nunn (Royal National Theatre); "Juno and the Paycock "directed by John Crowley (Donmar Warehouse); "Art" (Wyndham’s and Whitehall Theatres), "The Unexpected Man" (RSC, Duchess Theatre) and "The Winter’s Tale" (RSC at The Roundhouse) all directed by Matthew Warchus; "Blast!" (Apollo, Hammersmith); and "The Blue Room", directed by Sam Mendes (Donmar Warehouse). He also designed "Dance of the Vampires", directed by Roman Polanski for Vienna and Stuttgart.

His opera productions have included "Dialogues des Carmélites" (English National Opera), "Carmen" (Opera North) both directed by Phyllida Lloyd; and "The Bartered Bride", directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff (Glyndebourne).

His New York credits include:
* "Art" (1998 on Broadway, Royale Theater)
* "The Blue Room" (1998 on Broadway, Cort Theater)
* "Closer" (1999 on Broadway, Music Box Theatre)
* "Follies" (2001 revival on Broadway at the Belasco Theater)
* "Blast!" (2001 on Broadway)
* "The Unexpected Man" (Promenade Theater)
* "The Graduate" (2002 on Broadway)
* "Uncle Vanya", "Twelfth Night" and "Hamlet" (BAM)
* "Life (x) 3" (2003 on Broadway, Circle in the Square)
* "Bombay Dreams" (2004 on Broadway)
* "Spamalot" (2005 on Broadway, for which his lighting was nominated for a Tony Award) [ [http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search?start=15&year=2005&award=All&lname=&fname=&show= Tony Awards] ]

He has also designed lighting for plays in Los Angeles, Australia and elsewhere.

Vanstone is scheduled to design lighting for several 2008 productions including Yasmina Reza's play, "The God of Carnage" and Peter Gill's "Small Change" (London); "Boeing Boeing" (revivals on Broadway and in Australia); and "Shrek the Musical" (Broadway).

Notes

References

* [http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwidb/people/Hugh_Vanstone/ Broadwayworld list of several Vanstone productions]

External links

* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=25931 Hugh Vanstone at the Internet Broadway Database]