User:Mrsmint/Tony Simpson Lighting Designer

British Lighting Designer born 19th October 1971 in Reading. Went to the military boarding school Pangbourne College on a music scholarship where he was taught by Classic FM composer in residence Patrick Hawes. Has worked in theatre for 19 years on as a lighting designer and associate lighting designer, notably as associate on National Theatre's An Inspector Calls; Peter Wilson's production of the West End hit The Woman in Black; The Royal Court's The Weir; and Peter Hall's Amadeus both in the west End and on Broadway. He was lighting designer for the UK premiere of Batboy: the Musical at both West Yorkshire Playhouse and Shaftesbury Theatre, Lenny at the Queens Theatre directed by Peter Hall, and numerous others. Currently based in London at the English National Opera.