Nick Richings
Lighting Designer
Recent work includes: Bhangra Nation (Birmingham Rep); Cruel Intentions (The Other Palace); Bronco Billy (Charing Cross); Snow White (Wolverhampton Grand); Dick Whittington (Theatre Royal Nottingham); Frank and Percy (The Other Palace); Alone Together and The Cherry Orchard (Theatre Royal Windsor); The Rocky Horror Show (UK Tour, Paris, Australian Tour); Blood Brothers (UK Tour); Saturday Night Fever (West End & UK Tour); Berlin Berlin and Beauty & The Beast (BB Productions, Germany); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Vienna’s English Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Hackney Empire); Dirty Dancing (UK Tour); Cruel Intentions (Edinburgh Festival), and Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep).
Nick’s West End designs include: La Cage aux Folles (Playhouse Theatre & Broadway, Tony Award nomination Best Lighting, Tony winner of Best Musical); The Glenn Miller Story (London Coliseum); Nell Gwynn (Apollo Theatre & Shakespeare’s Globe); The Master Builder and A Man for All Seasons (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Fallen Angels and Sleuth (Apollo Theatre); Simply the Best (Savoy Theatre); The Mystery of Charles Dickens (West End & Broadway); Spamalot (Playhouse Theatre); Damon Albarn’s Monkey: Journey to the West (Royal Opera House, Lincoln Center, Paris and the O2); Aspects of Love (Prince of Wales), Whistle Down the Wind (Palace Theatre and US tour), and Fiddler on the Roof and Scrooge (London Palladium);
UK tours include: Dirty Dancing; Saturday Night Fever; Cilla the Musical; Ghost; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; The Glenn Miller Story; The Sound of Music; Jesus Christ Superstar; Spamalot; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Starlight Express; Spend Spend Spend! and Strictly Come Dancing: the Professionals.
International work includes: Ghost (Moscow, Dubai, Paris); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (New Zealand); Saturday Night Fever; Mary Poppins; The Producers; Beauty and the Beast and Chess (Copenhagen); A Sigh of Love (Shanghai Ballet); The Rocky Horror Show (South Africa, Korea, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand), and Grease (International).