Chuma Emembolu

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    Biography

    An experienced freelance Lighting Designer, Chuma has enjoyed a great deal of professional success for his innovative and electrifying work in theatre both round the UK

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    Specialisms

    Theatre:
    • International
    • West End
    • Commercial Tour
    • Regional (Main House)
    • Regional (Studio)
    • Small Scale Touring
    • Fringe / Pub Theatre
    • Education Establishment
    • Touring relights
    • Projection / Video Design
    Musical:
    • International
    • West End
    • Commercial Tour
    • Regional (Main House)
    • Regional (Studio)
    • Small Scale / Fringe
    • Pantomime
    • Education Establishment
    • Touring relights
    • Projection / Video Design
    Opera:
    • International
    • Large scale
    • Small scale
    • Education Establishment
    • Projection / Video Design
    Dance:
    • International
    • UK National Company
    • Large Scale
    • Medium Scale
    • Education Establishment
    • Projection / Video Design
    Concert:
    Corporate:
    • Conferences
    • Exhibition Stands
    • Fashion Shows
    • Product Launches
    • Award Ceremonies
    • Open Air Events
    • Projection / Video / Content Design
    Architectural:
    Non-professional:
    Education:
    • Lectures
    • Workshops
    • Training

    Previous productions

    Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
    The great Pravitaion Theatre Theatre 503, London
    Theatre 503     		Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Chuma Emembolu
    Director: Kalungi Ssebandeke
    Set designer: Ruth Badila
    Icarus Theatre Tobacco Factory Theatres
    Bristol School of Acting     		Lighting Designer Director: Nancy Medina
    Sir John In Love Opera Opera Holland Park
    British Youth Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Harry Fehr
    Set designer: Nate Gibson
    The Throne Theatre Charing Cross Theatre
    Throne Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Biggs
    Set designer: Gregor Donnelly
    Bold Girls Theatre Gielgud Theatre, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
    Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)     		Lighting Designer Director: Ola Ince
    Set designer: Adam Nee
    The Dwarfs Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    Flying Colours Presents     		Lighting Designer Director: Harry Burton
    Set designer: Isabella Van Braeckel
    The Aspern Papers Opera Royal Academy of Music, Susie Sainsbury Theatre
    Pegasus Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Simone Ibbett-Brown
    Man of Mode Theatre The Mack
    Mountview Presents     		Lighting Designer Director: Barney McElholm & Bethany West
    Set designer: Tina Torbey
    The Night Woman Theatre The Other Palace, London
    Emma Blackman Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Martina Laird
    Here's What She Said To Me Theatre Belgrade 2 - Coventry
    Utopia Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Mojisola Elufowoju
    Set designer: Emma Williams
    For Black Boy Who Considered Suicide When the Hue Got to Heavy Theatre New Diarama Theatre, London
    New Diorama Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu
    Set designer: Anna Reid
    LOVE, GENIUS AND A WALK Theatre Theatro Technis, Camden
    Bringing Up The House     		Lighting Designer Director: Leah Townley
    Set designer: CONSTANCE VILLEMOT
    POISON, PASSION AND PURIFICATION Opera Royal Academy of Music, Susie Sainsbury Theatre
    Pegasus Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Harry Fehr
    Set designer: Flavio Graff
    L'ENFANT PRODIGUE Opera Royal Academy of Music, Susie Sainsbury Theatre
    Pegasus Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Harry Fehr
    Set designer: Flavio Graff
    Invisibe Me Theatre New Wimbledon Studio Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Su Gilroy
    Maggie and Ted Theatre The Garrick Theatre London
    Honourable Man Productions     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jack Weir
    Director: Michael Kingsbury
    ILLUSIONS OF LIBERTY Theatre Kings Head Theatre, Angel
    It Taste Like Home Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Raquel Grela
    Invisible Me Theatre Conway Hall
    		Lighting Designer Director: Nicky Allpress
    THE GOOD DAD Theatre The Old Red Lion Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Shrubsall
    We Will Rock You Musical ARK BORLINGBROKE
    ARK BORLINGBROKE Production     		Lighting Designer
    The Maids Theatre Hen and Chickens Theatre
    Theatre East N Bull     		Lighting Designer Director: Boris Celiloglu
    Great Expectations Theatre The Playground Theatre
    Theatre Labs Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Anastasia Revi
    Set designer: Eirini Kariori
    THE EXCEPTIONAL CASE OF WHIZZ AND DREX Theatre The Old Red Lion Theatre
    SANTAMANA PRODUCTIONS     		Lighting Designer Director: Fred Kelly
    A BOY CALLED PORRO Musical Pleasance Theatre London
    Tricolore Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Shrubsall
    Set designer: Alys Whitehead
    EDRED THE VAMPYRE Theatre The Old Red Lion Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Shrubsall
    Set designer: Alys Whitehead
    DISSOCIATED Musical Etcetera Theatre, Camden
    Skitzoid Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: David Bain
    Macbeth - The Musical Musical The White Bear Theatre
    Stage Splinters     		Lighting Designer Director: Chuma Emembolu
    Set designer: Sally Hardcastle
    This Play Will Solve Climate Change Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    Reusable Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Laura Baggaley
    Blue Tights, Red Knickers and an ‘s’ On her vest Theatre The Lion & Unicorn Theatre
    Thematic Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Liam Ashmead
    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Opera Greenwood Theatre, Kings College London
    Fulham Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Paul Higgins
    Set designer: Jessica Staton
    Nostalgia Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    Nomadic Theatrical Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Clive Moffatt
    Conversation With Ed Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Evangeline Osbon
    The Fear Theatre Bunker Theatre
    Mountview     		Lighting Designer Director: Lekan Lawal
    King Charles III Theatre Barnes Community Centre
    Wild Duck Theatre and Barnes Players     		Lighting Designer Director: Susan Coates
    Gravel Heart Theatre Bunker Theatre
    Mountview     		Lighting Designer Director: Richard Vincent
    Jumping the Shark Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    White Bear Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Michael Kingsbury
    Avalon Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    Savage Kid     		Lighting Designer Director: Peter Craze
    The Key Keepers of Kabul Theatre Tara Arts, London
    		Lighting Designer Director: Kamaal Hussain
    LUCREZIA THE SINNER, LUCREZIA THE SAINT Theatre The Oxford Playhouse
    Theatre Lab Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Anastasia Revi
    Set designer: Valentina Sanna
    The Project Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    RedNeedles Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Shrubsall
    Set designer: Sarah Baker
    Connecting... Theatre The Chapel Playhouse
    All Terrain Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Lucie Regan
    Boomerang Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Ivana Mazza-Coates and Madeleine Shenai
    some birds never return Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    The Collective Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Theodor Spiridon
    Nor Woman Neither Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Stephen Doolan
    104 days with you Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Luna Rose Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Luna Rose
    The Empire Has Fallen Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    Umbra Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: David Fenne
    Valhalla Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Allix James
    Apparatus Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    Blue Devil Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Ross Dinwiddy
    Cinderella :Pantomime Theatre Ye Olde Rose & Crown
    Whats in a name productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Anthony Law
    An Honourable Man Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    Honourable Man Productions     		Assistant Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Joseph Ed Thomas
    Director: Jolly Gosnold
    Set designer: Mike Lees
    As You Like It Theatre Ye Olde Rose & Crown
    Controlled Chaos Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Michael J. Ansley
    Tainted - A New Musical Musical The Vaults Theatre
    		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Joseph Ed Thomas
    Director: Bryan Hodgson
    Set designer: Mike Lees
    It Taste Like Home Musical The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Divergence Theatre Collective     		Lighting Designer Director: Roman Berry
    Set designer: Geraldine Cooper
    Cabaret Theatre The Other Palace
    Konstantin Kamenski Productions     		Lighting Designer
    Clapham Fringe Festival Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    The Bread and Roses Theatre     		Lighting Designer
    THE SWORD OF ALEX Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    Beyond the Pale theatre company     		Lighting Designer Director: Brian Woolland
    Set designer: Alys Whitehead
    Chaos Volume III Theatre Katzpace theatre
    Controlled Chaos Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer
    Richard II Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Open the Vault productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Joshua Jewkes
    Trying to be her Theatre Etcetera Theatre
    The Writing Network     		Lighting Designer Director: Paula David
    Fleeced Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Matipo Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Georgia Hardcastle
    Set designer: Sally Hardcastle
    SUNFLOWER Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    New Dreams Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Joe Miller
    TELO Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    New Dreams Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Laurel Marks
    Bandit Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    New Dreams Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Daisy Milner
    SUNNY SIDE UP Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    New Dreams Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Tess Agus
    In the Wake of Theatre The Lion and Unicorn Theatre
    WooHoo Debbie Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Matt Shrachan
    No Exit Theatre Bread & Roses Theatre
    The Rose Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: James Sheppard
    Metamorphosis 2 Theatre Waterloo East Theatre, London
    Off The Cliff Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Kasia Różycki
    Blue Tights, Red Knickers and an ’S’ on Her Vest Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Thematic Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Liam Ashmead
    Romeo and Juliet Theatre Waterloo East Theatre, London
    Controlled Chaos Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Paul Anthony
    Last one here Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    Tripped Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Georgia Leanne Harris
    Set designer: Sally Hardcastle
    Dare to Do Theatre The Space
    Ka Zimba Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Jeffery Kissoon
    Set designer: Alfie Heywood
    Gift of the Gab Theatre The White Bear Theatre
    Shiny Pin Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Simon David Eden
    Set designer: Sim E. Sigh
    The Buzz Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    The Bread and Roses Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Velenzia Spearpoint
    Set designer: Sally Hardcastle
    Don Juan Theatre Hoxton Hall Theatre
    Theatre Lab Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Anastasia Revi
    Set designer: Valentina Sanna
    Frankenstein: Live Audio Drama Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Cyborphic Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Richard Hand
    In the Year 2125 Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Cyborphic Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Brooke DeBettignies
    Fixed Action Pattern Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Cyborphic Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Evi Stamatiou
    Close Encounters Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Cyborphic Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Darren Tunstall
    Dark King Kills Unicorn Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Cyborphic Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Stella Keramida
    Been on the Job Too Long Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Cyborphic Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Simone Giustinelli
    For the Living Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Cyborphic Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Jay Head
    Homo Superior Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Cyborphic Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Tess Agus
    Paper Doll Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Cyborphic Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Katherine Sturt-Scobie
    Last Tragedy Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Cyborphic Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Sokratis Synitos
    RIP Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Cyborphic Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Edward Einhorn
    The Tempest Theatre The Brockley Jack Theatre
    Controlled Chaos Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Dylan Lincoln
    Set designer: Dylan Lincoln
    Little Did I Know Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    The Bread and Roses Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Roman Berry
    Set designer: Reiko Moreau
    Fear and Misery of the Third Reich Theatre The Brockley Jack Theatre
    Aequitas Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Rachael Bellis
    What's your Issue Theatre The Cockpit Theatre - London
    Aequitas Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Sophia Start
    The Merchant Of Venice Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Aequitas Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Sophia Start
    Measure for Measure Theatre The Bread and Roses Theatre
    Aequitas Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Sophia Start
    Scars Theatre Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury
    		Lighting Designer Director: Matthew Woods
    Contact method Details
    Email address chumald@icloud.com
    Agent email nicky@33ltd.com
    Website https://www.chumald.com