Charles Balfour – Lighting Designer
This is Charles’s 14th production at the Gate Theatre, from Blood of Angels (1987) to Body of an American (2014).
Other theatre credits include: The Alchemist, A Midsummer Night’s Dream – A Play for the Nation, Queen Anne, Hecuba, The Christmas Truce, I’ll Be the Devil (RSC); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); Mojo, Richard III, Posh, Through the Leaves (West End); The River (Broadway); Torn, Choir Boy, The River, Chicken Soup With Barley, The Girlfriend Experience, Now or Later, The Ugly One, Country Music (Royal Court); Ah Wilderness, dirty butterfly, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Young Vic); The Events (ATC/Young Vic/New York Theatre Workshop); Minetti (Edinburgh International Festival); The Suppliant Women (ATC/Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh); Jumpers for Goalposts, The Angry Brigade (Paines Plough/Bush Theatre); Orlando, The Accrington Pals (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Hook (Northampton Royal/Liverpool Everyman); The Borrowers, Catch-22 (Northern Stage); The Tempest (Liverpool Playhouse); Marilyn, Ghosts (Glasgow Citizens); The English Game, Angels in America (Headlong); The Duchess of Malfi, Hedda Gabler (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
Dance credits include: Over 30 works with the Richard Alston Dance Company (Sadlers Wells & worldwide); Hyrdrargyrum, Labyrinth of Love, Bloom (Rambert); Run For It (Scottish Ballet/Cultural Olympiad); Magical Night, The Red Balloon (ROH/Aletta Collins); Woman in Memory (Tate Modern/Rosemary Butcher); Shaking World (Beijing Dance Academy); Eden/Eden (Stuttgart Ballet/San Francisco Ballet/Wayne McGregor).
Opera/Music credits include: La Bainca Notte (Hamburg Opera); Carmen (Vlaamse Opera); OperaShots, La Voix Humaine (ROH); Carmen, Werther, Saul (Opera North); Silence Night & Dreams (Athens Acropolis); Jordan Town (Errollyn Wallen); Hagoromo, Thimble Rigging (Queen Elizabeth Hall).
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