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    © Steve Tanner Kneehigh Theatre's "Tristan & Yseult", Cottesloe, National Theatre, 2005
    Photographer: Steve Tanner |
  • Antigone in her tomb
    Antigone, Mercury Theatre, Colchester
    Photographer: Pamela Raith |
  • air raid
    Birdong Productions "Flare Path"
    Photographer: Jack Ladenberg |

    Alex Wardle

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    Biography

    Alex is a theatre consultant and lighting designer for Charcoalblue.  He studied German and Electronics at Keele University, then Theatre Arts at the Freie Universität Berlin and at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. He was Production Manager for Kneehigh Theatre from 2000 - 2005 and a theatre consultant for Arup from 2005 - 2011. 

    Lighting designs include "Shadowlands", "Flare Path" and "Birdsong" (UK tours for Birdsong Productions), "My Perfect Mind" for Told by an Idiot; "Sons Without Fathers" and "Uncle Vanya" for Helena Kaut-Howson (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Arcola), "Tell Them That I Am Young and Beautiful", "The Cradle will Rock" and "Innocence" (Arcola), "Bay" and "The Shift" (Young Vic), "Superstition Mountain" (o-region at Plymouth Theatre Royal). Designs for Kneehigh Theatre include "Rapunzel", "Tristan & Yseult" outdoors and at the National Theatre (nominated for Best Touring Production, TMA Awards 2006), "The Wooden Frock" (nominated for Best Touring Production, TMA Awards 2004), "The Red Shoes" and "The Riot".

    Alex's work on "Birdsong" was shortlisted for the 2013 Technical Theatre Awards.

    "Uncle Vanya" was shortlisted for Best Lighting Design, 2012 Off West End Theatre Awards.

    "The Cradle will Rock" was nominated for Best Lighting Design, 2011 Off West End Theatre Awards.

    Specialisms

    Theatre:
    • Commercial Tour
    • Regional (Main House)
    • Regional (Studio)
    • Fringe / Pub Theatre
    Opera:
    • Small scale
    Dance:
    • Medium Scale

    Previous productions

    Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
    Antigone Theatre Mercury Theatre, Colchester
    Mercury Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Dawn Walton
    Set designer: Simon Kenny
    Birdsong Theatre Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, UK, then touring
    Birdsong Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Alastair Whatley & Charlotte Peters
    Set designer: Victoria Spearing
    Democracy Theatre Macrobert, Stirling, then touring
    Rapture Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Michael Emans
    Set designer: Richard Evans
    Shadowlands Theatre Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, then touring
    Birdsong Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Alastair Whatley
    Flare Path Theatre Connaught Theatre, Worthing, then touring
    Original Theatre & Birdsong Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Justin Audibert
    Set designer: Hayley Grindle
    Flare Path Theatre Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, then touring
    Original Theatre & Birdsong Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Justin Audibert
    Set designer: Hayley Grindle
    Birdsong Theatre Ashcroft theatre, Croydon, then touring
    Original Theatre & Birdsong Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Alastair Whatley
    Set designer: Victoria Spearing
    My Perfect Mind Theatre Young Vic, then touring
    Told by an Idiot     		Lighting Designer Director: Kathryn Hunter
    Set designer: Michael Vale
    Birdsong Theatre Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, then touring
    The Original Theatre Company & Birdsong Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Alastair Whatley
    Set designer: Victoria Spearing
    Sons without Fathers Theatre Belgrade, Coventry; Arcola, London
    Belgrade Theatre, Coventry & Arcola Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Helena Kaut-Howson
    Set designer: Iona Mcleish
    My Perfect Mind Theatre Drum, Plymouth Theatre Royal, then touring
    Told by an Idiot & Young Vic     		Lighting Designer Director: Kathryn Hunter
    Set designer: Michael Vale
    Birdsong Theatre Haymarket, Basingstoke, then touring
    The Original Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Alastair Whatley
    Set designer: Victoria Spearing
    Mathematics of the Heart Theatre Theatre 503
    Natural Shocks and Theatre 503     		Lighting Designer Director: Donnacadh O'Briain
    Set designer: Signe Beckmann
    Tell Them That I Am Young and Beautiful Theatre Arcola
    KP Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Marcello Magni
    Set designer: Sophie Jump
    Uncle Vanya Theatre Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
    Belgrade Theatre, Coventry / Arcola Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Helena Kaut-Howson
    Set designer: Sophie Jump
    The Cradle will Rock Theatre Arcola Theatre
    Arcola Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Mehmet Ergen
    Set designer: Lisa Engel & Hannah Penfold
    Reclining Nude with Black Stockings Theatre Arcola Theatre
    Lone Wolf     		Lighting Designer Director: Alexander Gilmour
    Set designer: Marialena Kapotopoulou
    Tales of the Country Theatre Theatre Severn, then touring
    Pentabus     		Lighting Designer Director: Orla O'loughlin
    Set designer: James Humphrey
    Innocence Theatre Arcola Theatre
    Arcola Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Helena Kaut-Howson
    Set designer: Lara Booth
    Superstition Mountain Theatre Drum (Theatre Royal Plymouth), then touring
    o-region     		Lighting Designer Director: Carl Grose
    Set designer: Laura MacKenzie
    Bay Theatre Young Vic
    Young Vic     		Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Tipple
    Set designer: Tom Scutt
    Clown with Love Dance Junction, Cambridge, then touring
    Helix Dance     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Isobel Cohen
    Below Dance St Merryn Village Hall, then touring
    C-Scape Dance     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Helen Tiplady, Sally Williams, TC Howard
    Rapunzel Theatre Queen Elizabeth Hall, London / Lowry / WYP / New York, then touring
    Kneehigh     		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Rice
    Set designer: Michael Vale
    Alice Theatre Belmont Arts Centre, Shrewsbury, then touring
    Trading Faces     		Lighting Designer Director: Tony Davies
    Set designer: Phil Engelheart
    Rapunzel Theatre BAC
    Kneehigh / BAC     		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Rice
    Set designer: Michael Vale
    Guilty Fingers Dance STERTS, Liskeard, then touring
    C-Scape Dance Company     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Fleur Darkin / Debbie Fionn Barr / Emma Rice
    Set designer: Fiona Chivers
    Launch Party for Architecture Biennale Corporate & Industrial Arsenale, Venice
    Arup     		Lighting Designer
    House of Deer Theatre BAC, then touring
    Éva Magyar     		Lighting Designer
    Blonde Dance Keay, St Austell, then touring
    C-Scape Dance Company     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Steven Kirkham, Simon Birch, TC Howard
    Tristan and Yseult (2005-6) Theatre Cottesloe, then touring
    Kneehigh / National Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Rice
    Set designer: Bill Mitchell
    Etta Jenks Theatre Finborough Theatre
    Timothy Hughes Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Che Walker
    Set designer: Ana Jebens
    Wagstaffe the Wind-Up Boy Theatre Tolman Centre, Constantine, then touring
    Kneehigh Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Mike Shepherd
    Set designer: Bill Mitchell
    Achidi J's Final Hours Theatre Finborough Theatre
    Frontline     		Lighting Designer Director: Che Walker
    Set designer: Dick Bird and Fiammetta Horvat
    The Wooden Frock Theatre West Yorkshire Playhouse, then touring
    Kneehigh / BAC / West Yorkshire Playhouse     		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Rice
    Set designer: Bill Mitchell
    Skulduggery Theatre Jubilee Hall, Mevagissey, then touring
    Kneehigh Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Simon Edwards
    Set designer: Sean Donohoe
    Cry Wolf Theatre Hall for Cornwall, then touring
    Kneehigh Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Mike Shepherd
    Set designer: Bill Mitchell
    Tristan and Yseult (2003) Theatre Restormel Castle, Lostwithiel, then touring
    Kneehigh Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Rice
    Set designer: Bill Mitchell
    Quicksilver Theatre Jubilee Hall, Mevagissey, then touring
    Kneehigh Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Bill Mitchell
    Set designer: Bill Mitchell
    Crouching Chef, Hidden Waiter Dance Barbican Centre (Plymouth), then touring
    Attik Dance     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Lois Taylor
    Set designer: Bill Mitchell
    Wild Jam Theatre Minack (Porthcurno), then touring
    Kneehigh Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Mike Shepherd
    Set designer: Bill Mitchell
    The Smashed Blue Hills Theatre New End
    Weaver-Hughes Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Timothy Hughes
    Set designer: Nigel Hook
    Roger Salmon - Cornish Detective Environmental Geevor Tin Mine
    Kneehigh Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Rice
    Set designer: Bill Mitchell
    Voyagers Theatre Croydon Warehouse, then touring
    Jet Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Kenneth Rea
    Set designer: Libby Watson
    The Red Shoes Theatre BAC, then touring
    Kneehigh Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Rice
    Set designer: Bill Mitchell
    Tempting Fate Theatre Pegasus (Oxford), then touring
    Trading Faces     		Lighting Designer Director: Thomasina Carlyle & Tony Davies
    Set designer: Philip Engleheart
    Jack and Jenny Environmental Carn Marth Quarry
    Kneehigh Theatre & Carn Marth Protection Group     		Lighting Designer Director: Sue Hill & Nicola Rosewarne
    The Riot Theatre Hall for Cornwall, then touring
    Kneehigh Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Mike Shepherd
    Set designer: Bill Mitchell
    Lonely Lives Theatre Union Theatre
    Urban Fox     		Lighting Designer Director: Eddie Marsan
    Set designer: Margarete Forsyth
    The Wife of Bath Theatre MAC (Birmingham), then touring
    Trading Faces     		Lighting Designer Director: John Wright
    Set designer: Philip Engleheart
    Send for Mr Plim Opera BAC
    Greenwich Studio Theatre / Cantabile     		Lighting Designer Director: Margarete Forsyth
    Set designer: Margarete Forsyth
    Bastien and Bastienne Opera BAC
    Greenwich Studio Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Margarete Forsyth
    Set designer: Margarete Forsyth
    Venus Opera Hackney Empire
    Torn Halves Music Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Lizzy Le Quesne
    Set designer: Nigel Hook
    The Force of Destiny Opera Stag (Sevenoaks), then touring
    Candid Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Chalkie Horsfall
    Set designer: Steven Garratt
    The Shift Theatre Young Vic Studio
    Academy Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Andrew Lavender
    Set designer: Andrew Fifield
    Life on Mars? Theatre Riverside Studios
    Laffa Jaffa     		Lighting Designer Director: Stephen Gilroy
    Set designer: Katie Sykes
    Kolonists Theatre Man in the Moon
    M.A.Days Companys     		Lighting Designer Director: Nesta Jones
    Set designer: Nigel Hook
    Duck Hunting Theatre Man in the Moon
    Weaver-Hughes Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Timothy Hughes
    Set designer: Nigel Hook
    Sancta Susanna Opera George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths' College
    Opera at Goldsmiths'     		Lighting Designer Director: Alex Wardle
    Set designer: Nigel Hook
    Contact method Details
    Work phone 020 7928 0000
    Email address alex.wardle@charcoalblue.com
    Website http://www.charcoalblue.com