David W Kidd

David’s extensive work has been seen in theatre, opera, ballet, music events, corporate theatre and commercial pantomime.

Theatre includes The Pillowman (Leicester Curve), FEN (Finborough/National Theatre), Independent Means (Library Theatre, Manchester), Nostalgia (Theatre Royal, Plymouth), White Boy (Soho Theatre), Resident Alien starring Bette Bourne (New End Theatre), Milestones (Watford Palace Theatre), A Tribute to Siegfried and Roy (London Palladium), Relish (Shoreditch Tramshed), The President’s Holiday (Hampstead Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew and Dick Barton – Special Agent (Nottingham Playhouse), Lunch With Marlene, From The Hart, Halpern and Johnson and Whatever Happened to the Cottondress Girl? (New End Theatre), The Anniversary (Garrick Theatre), The Female Odd Couple (Apollo Theatre), Paul Merton Live! (London Palladium), Many Roads to Paradise (Jermyn Street Theatre), Relish (Tramshed), Jack and the Beanstalk (Hackney Empire).

David has lit many productions at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton including Woody Allen’s Writer’s Block, Antony & Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, Earth & Sky, The House of Bernarda Alba, The Playboy of the Western World, A Streetcar Named Desire, She Stoops To Conquer, Don Quixote and Three Sisters (2002 TMA Award Best Design).

Ballet and opera includes Peter and the Wolf (Ballet Flanders, Royal Carré Amsterdam, UK tour, Stadsschouwberg Antwerp and New Victory Theater, New York), Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Bulgarian National Ballet, Opera Sophia), Die Walküre (De Ny Opera, Denmark) and Caracalla’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (London and Toronto).

Off Broadway designs include Unsuspecting Susan starring Celia Imrie and Tabloid Caligula.