Derek Carlyle

Having worked in professional theatre for over 30 years I enjoy many aspects of the technical side of staging a production. My lighting experience is principally in theatre but I have been fortunate to also work on a number of musicals, operas and dance shows. I have been lucky enough to work on many shows with many wonderful people in many different capacities but for the purposes of this website in particular my lighting credits include the following shows:- Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest (Shakespeare's Globe, Rome) The Lion King (Piper's Corner), The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare's Globe, Rome) Skin In Flames (Park 90), The Barber of Seville (Tour), 5 Deaths and a Happy Ending (Tour), Foreplay (King’s Head), Kiss Me, Figaro! (Riverside and Tour), Jeopardy (Waterloo East), Captain Blood’s Revenge (Glyndebourne and Tour), The Burial (The Albany), The Magic Flute (Riverside Studios), Asphalt Kiss (New Diorama) La Traviata, Troy Boy, (Gatehouse and Touring), Private Peaceful, Sweeny Todd, His Dark Materials (E.M. Forster), Gerbils in a Glass Cage (The Space), Johnny Boy (Brighton Dome), Bright Star (The Tabard), Orpheus Down Under (National Tour), Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Time and The Conways, I’ll Leave it to You (New Diorama), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (National Tour), Glasshouse (Tobacco Factory), The Pickwick Papers (National Tour), My Name is Rachel Corrie (Baron's Court), The Special Thing (Hen and Chickens), Frozen (Riverside Studios and Tour), My Sister In This House (Greenwich Playhouse), Treasure Island (King's Head), Centre Stage '07 and '08 [Dance] (Cochrane Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Shaw Theatre), The Picture of Dorian Gray and Chekhov’s Shorts(National tours), Five Kinds of Silence (Old Red Lion), Othello and The Way of the World (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Shakespeare’s Keeper (Grange Court Theatre), A Winter’s Tale (Wimbledon Studio), The Revenger’s Tragedy and The Monument (BAC), The Accrington Pals (Pentameters), The Cherry Orchard, The Speckled Band and Cinderella (Drayton Court Theatre), Top Girls (The Chelsea Centre) and over fifty productions at Drama Studio London. I also work as a Sound Designer, Production Manager and Actor