Michael Nabarro

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    Biography

    Michael’s recent lighting designs include The 14th Tale & Black T-Shirt Collection (Cottesloe Theatre & touring); Boys (Headlong, HighTide & Nuffield Southampton); Untitled (Bristol Old Vic, Soho Theatre & touring); Shalom Baby (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The World’s Wife (Trafalgar Studios & touring); Ghosts in the Gallery (Polka Theatre); Coming Home, The Ballad of Crazy Paola, The Lady from the Sea, An Enemy of the People & The Blind (Arcola Theatre); Our Share of Tomorrow, Lough/Rain, Limbo & 1984 (York Theatre Royal); Slaves, Beasts & Cocoa (Theatre 503).

    Michael is a graduate of the RADA Lighting Design course. He previously graduated from Cambridge University and spent three years managing the ADC Theatre in Cambridge. Michael is also the Managing Director and co-Founder of Spektrix, a provider of cloud-based ticketing systems to around 120 arts organisations in the UK.

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    Previous productions

    Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
    Statements After An Arrest Under The Immorality Act Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Cordelia Monsey
    Set designer: Victoria Johnstone
    Gutted Theatre Theatre Royal Stratford East
    		Lighting Designer Director: rikki beadle-blair
    Set designer: Rikki Beadle-Blair
    but i cd only whisper Theatre Arcola Theatre
    Tabula Rasa     		Lighting Designer Director: Nadia Latif
    Set designer: Lorna Ritchie
    Game of Life Theatre The Yard
    		Lighting Designer Director: Russell Bender
    Set designer: Mila Sanders
    Boys Theatre Soho Theatre, Cut (Halesworth), Nuffield (Southampton), then touring
    Headlong, HighTide & Nuffield Southampton     		Lighting Designer Director: Robert Icke
    Set designer: Chloe Lamford
    Same Same Theatre Oval House Theatre
    Fanshen     		Lighting Designer Director: Rachel Briscoe & Dan Barnard
    Shalom Baby Theatre Theatre Royal Stratford East
    		Lighting Designer Director: rikki beadle-blair
    Set designer: Rikki Beadle-Blair
    Las Brutas Theatre Theatre 503
    Head for Heights     		Lighting Designer Director: Sue Dunderdale
    Set designer: Lorna Ritchie
    The Four Stages of Cruelty Theatre Arcola Theatre
    Simple 8     		Lighting Designer Director: Adam Brace & Sebastian Armesto
    Untitled Theatre Bristol Old Vic, then touring
    Inua Ellams & Fuel     		Lighting Designer Director: Thierry Lawson
    Our Share of Tomorrow Theatre Pleasance, Edinburgh, York Theatre Royal & Touring, then touring
    Real Circumstance     		Lighting Designer Director: Dan Sherer
    Set designer: James Cotterill
    Coming Home Theatre Arcola Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Cordelia Monsey
    Set designer: Victoria Johnstone
    Dream of the Dog Theatre Finborough Theatre
    Meeting Point Productions Ltd in association with Neil McPherson     		Lighting Designer Director: Katie McAleese
    Set designer: Alex Marker
    Slaves Theatre Theatre 503
    Theatre 503     		Lighting Designer Director: Nadia Latif
    Set designer: Lorna Ritchie
    A Real Humane Person Who Cares And All That Theatre Arcola Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Harper
    Set designer: Bronia Housman
    Untitled Theatre Roundhouse
    Fuel Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Thierry Lawson
    Crazy For You Musical London Palladium
    Eyebrow Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Katherine Hare
    Set designer: Hilary Statts
    Shooting Rats Theatre
    Fanshen Theatre Company with Oval House     		Lighting Designer Director: Dan Barnard & Rachel Briscoe
    Set designer: Chris Gylee
    The World's Wife Theatre Touring inc. Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh) and Trafalgar Studios
    James Seabright and LMP     		Lighting Designer Director: Di Sherlock
    The 14th Tale Theatre Arcola Theatre & Cottesloe Theatre (Feb 2010), then touring
    Fuel Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Thierry Lawson
    Simpatico Theatre Old Red Lion Theatre
    Ronin Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Hannah Eidinow
    Set designer: Lorna Ritchie
    The Ballad of Crazy Paola Theatre Arcola Theatre Studio Two
    Tabula Rasa Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Nadia Latif
    Set designer: Lorna Ritchie
    Me and My Girl Non-professional London Palladium
    Eyebrow Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: John Sheerman
    Set designer: Ben Gerlis
    Catalysta Theatre Oval House Theatre
    VAB Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Robert Icke
    Set designer: Rhys Jarman
    Ghosts in the Gallery Theatre Polka Theatre
    Polka Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Jonathan Lloyd
    Set designer: Rachana Jadhav
    Lough / Rain Theatre Underbelly Edinburgh & York Theatre Royal
    Real Circumstance with York Theatre Royal & Arts Council Escalator East to Edinburgh     		Lighting Designer Director: Dan Sherer
    Set designer: James Cotterill
    Thyestes Theatre Main House, Battersea Arts Centre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Libby Penn
    Set designer: Adrian Gee
    The Lady from the Sea Theatre Arcola Theatre Studio 1
    Arcola Theatre in association with Silkensaw     		Lighting Designer Director: Hannah Eidinow
    Set designer: Jason Southgate
    An Enemy Of The People Theatre Arcola Theatre Studio 1
    Arcola Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Mehmet Ergen
    Set designer: Jason Southgate
    Fight! Fight! Fight! Theatre Michael Frayn Studio, Hampstead Theatre
    Hampstead Theatre Youth Project     		Lighting Designer Director: Debra Glazer
    Set designer: Sean Turner
    1984 Theatre York Theatre Royal, main house
    York Theatre Royal Youth Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Owen Calvert-Lyons
    Set designer: Catherine Chapman
    The Blind Theatre Arcola Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Jack Mcnamara
    Set designer: Vali Mahlouji
    White People Theatre Theatre 503
    		Lighting Designer Director: Catherine Paskell
    Set designer: Sean Turner
    Rivers Run Deep Theatre Michael Frayn Studio, Hampstead Theatre
    Hampstead Theatre Youth Project     		Lighting Designer Director: Eric Dupin
    Set designer: Sarah Barnett
    Gabriel Theatre GBS Theatre, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
    Royal Academy of Dramatic Art     		Lighting Designer Director: Lucy Skilbeck
    Set designer: Janet Bird
    Mousetrap Theatre Projects 10th Anniversary Gala Theatre St Martins Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: David Grindley
    Of Two Days Theatre Pleasance Theatre, London
    C54 Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Harper
    Limbo Theatre York Theatre Royal, studio, then touring
    Real Circumstance     		Lighting Designer Director: Dan Sherer
    Set designer: Lorna Ritchie
    Black Light Theatre St Andrew's Crypt, London
    Tangram Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Norman
    Set designer: Sean Turner
    Sepia Dreams Theatre St Andrew's Crypt, London
    Tangram Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Daniel Goldman
    Set designer: Sean Turner
    After Everything Theatre St Andrew's Crypt, London
    Tangram Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Luis Ibar
    Set designer: Sean Turner
    The Ash Girl Non-professional Clore Studio, Unicorn Theatre
    Jaxx Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Jacqui Taylor
    In the Heart of America Theatre Gielgud Theatre, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
    Royal Academy of Dramatic Art     		Lighting Designer Director: Nadia Latif
    Set designer: Rich Evans
    Salome Theatre Gielgud Theatre, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
    Royal Academy of Dramatic Art     		Lighting Designer Director: David Overend
    Set designer: Rich Evans
    Cocoa Theatre Theatre 503
    		Lighting Designer Director: Chris White
    Set designer: Alex Eales
    Duck Hunting Theatre Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
    Royal Academy of Dramatic Art     		Lighting Designer Director: Sergei Tcherkasski
    Set designer: Gary Thorne
    The Girl on the Sofa Theatre Gielgud Theatre, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
    Royal Academy of Dramatic Art     		Lighting Designer Director: Simon Usher
    Set designer: Regina Fraas
    Fuente Ovejuna Non-professional ADC Theatre
    Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club     		Lighting Designer Director: Stephen Siddall
    Set designer: Christina Elliot
    Singin' in the Rain Non-professional Cambridge Arts Theatre
    Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society     		Lighting Designer Director: Simon Evans
    Set designer: Simon Hicks & Michael Nabarro
    Eveline Syndrome Non-professional The Ark, Dublin
    Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club     		Lighting Designer
    Some Explicit Polaroids Non-professional ADC Theatre, Cambridge & Underbelly, Edinburgh
    Growling Monkey Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Libby Penn
    Orpheus in the Underworld Non-professional Cambridge Arts Theatre
    Cambridge University Gilbert and Sullivan Society     		Lighting Designer Director: James Dacre
    Set designer: Elizabeth Bell
    The Revenger's Tragedy Theatre St Andrew's Crypt, London
    		Lighting Designer Director: Katie McAleese
    Set designer: Gary Campbell
    West Side Story Non-professional Cambridge Arts Theatre
    Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society     		Lighting Designer Director: Lloyd Wood
    Set designer: Hannah Gravestock
    Twelfth Night Non-professional ADC Theatre & on tour round Europe
    Cambridge European Theatre Group     		Lighting Designer Director: Matthew Boughton
    Set designer: Catherine Stevenson
    Translations Non-professional ADC Theatre
    Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club     		Lighting Designer Director: Sam Hodges
    The Pirates of Penzance Non-professional Minack Theatre, Cornwall
    Cambridge University Gilbert and Sullivan Society     		Lighting Designer Director: Kate Merriam
    Set designer: Ros Evans & Joe Harris
    Contact method Details
    Email address

    michael@michaelnabarro.com
    Website

    http://www.michaelnabarro.com
    Agent name

    Nigel Godfrey at Blue Box
    Agent website

    http://www.blue-box.biz
    Agent phone

    020 7395 7520
    Agent email

    nigel@blue-box.biz