Ryan Joseph Stafford

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    Biography

    Ryan works across the UK and Europe as a Lighting Designer for theatre, musicals, and dance.

    He trained at Rose Bruford College, graduating with a First Class BA Honours Degree in Lighting Design.

    Theatre includes: Not Quite Jerusalem (Finborough); When the Sea Swallows Us Whole (Vault Festival, London); Wind of Heaven (Finborough); Cyrano de Bergerac (The Watermill); Crave (The Other Room/RWCMD); Hauntings & Pork Pies (Theatre Clwyd/National Trust); Easy Virtue (The Watermill); The Island (Fio/UK Tour); Cardiff Boy (Red Oak Theatre/The Other Room); The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives (Elufowoju, Jr. Ensemble/Arcola Theatre); Dames (Siberian Lights/Pleasance London); Finding Mr Hart (Blackburn Cotton Exchange); The River (Red Oak Theatre); Landmines (Bridge Company/Ovalhouse); Flew the Coop (New Diorama Theatre).

    Musicals include: Sleeping Beauty (Rhodes Arts Theatre/Wisecracker Ent.); Pippin (UWTSD, Cardiff); Becoming (Stratford Circus); Robin Hood (The Watermill); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Bournemouth Pavilion); Wondertown (Bohemian Theatre Co.); Assassins (Rose Bruford/Stratford Circus).

    Dance includes: Left from Write (Norwegian National Ballet II/Linbury, Royal Opera House; European Tour); CODI (National Dance Company Wales/National Tour); When It Arrives; Shall We Just Retire to the Lake? (Messums Gallery, Wiltshire); Together, Not the Same (Sadler’s Wells).

    Ryan regularly works as an Assistant/Associate Lighting Designer for LDs including Michael Hulls, Richard Howell, Hansjörg Schmidt, Nic Farman, and Dan Saggars.

    As Associate: Umm Kulthum & The Golden Era (London Palladium); Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong Theatre/UK Tour); Spiral Pass (Lyon Opera Ballet); The Thread (Sadler’s Wells; Megaron, Athens); Toujours et Près de Moi (ERRATICA/Edinburgh Fringe; Operadagen Festival, Rotterdam); Under Glass (Clod Ensemble/UK Tour); Orfeo ed Euridice (LFO/Greenwood Theatre).

    Ryan is an Associate Artist of Red Oak Theatre Company and Bohemian Theatre Company.

    In 2019, Ryan received the ‘Michael Northern Award for Excellence in Lighting Design’, from the Association of Lighting Designers.

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    Specialisms

    Theatre:
    • Regional (Main House)
    • Regional (Studio)
    • Fringe / Pub Theatre
    • Education Establishment
    • Touring relights
    Musical:
    • Regional (Main House)
    • Small Scale / Fringe
    • Pantomime
    • Education Establishment
    Opera:
    • Small scale
    • Touring relights
    Dance:
    • International
    • UK National Company
    • Large Scale
    • Medium Scale
    Concert:
    Corporate:
    Architectural:
    Non-professional:
    Education:

    Previous productions

    Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
    Generation Goldfish Dance Prinzregententheater, Munich
    Bayerisches Staatsballet     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Charlotte Edmonds
    Shades of Blue Dance Sadler's Wells
    Matsena Productions     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Anthony Matsena & Kel Matsena
    NYDC X Russell Maliphant Dance Sadler's Wells
    National Youth Dance Company     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Russell Maliphant
    Not Quite Jerusalem Theatre The Finborough Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Peter Kavanagh
    Set designer: Ceci Calf
    Faustus: That Damned Woman Theatre Lyric Hammersmith, then touring
    Headlong     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Richard Howell
    Director: Caroline Byrne
    Set designer: Ana Inés Jabares Pita
    Sleeping Beauty - Pantomine Musical Rhodes Arts Theatre
    Wisecracker Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Ian McFarlane
    Wind of Heaven Theatre The Finborough Theatre
    Weighed In Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Will Maynard
    Set designer: Ceci Calf
    CODI Dance Theatr Clwyd, then touring
    National Dance Company of Wales     		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Anthony Matsena
    Cyrano de Bergerac Theatre The Watermill Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Seamus Allen
    Set designer: Cory Shipp
    Spiral Pass Dance
    Lyon Opera Ballet     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Michael Hulls
    Choreographer: Russell Maliphant
    Shall We Just Retire to the Lake? / When It Arrives Dance Messums Wiltshire
    		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Ruby Portus
    , Choreographer: Anthony Matsena
    Me and My Girl Musical Frinton Summer Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Ben Stock
    Set designer: Gregor Donnelly
    Together, Not the Same Dance Sadler's Wells Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Choreographer: Christopher Thomas
    , Choreographer: Ruby Portus
    , Choreographer: Anthony Matsena
    , Choreographer: Wilhelmina Ojanen
    Crave Theatre The Other Room, Cardiff
    RWCMD/The Other Room     		Lighting Designer Director: Samantha Jones
    Set designer: Mimi Donaldson, Set designer: Zoe Brennan
    Hauntings and Pork Pies Theatre Powis Castle
    Theatr Clwyd / National Trust     		Lighting Designer Director: Hannah Noone
    Set designer: Heledd Rees
    The Thread Dance Sadler's Wells Theatre
    		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Michael Hulls
    Choreographer: Russell Maliphant
    Becoming Musical Stratford Circus, London
    		Lighting Designer Director: Debo Oluwatuminu
    Pippin Musical The Gate, Cardiff
    University of Wales Trinity Saint David     		Lighting Designer Director: Angharad Lee
    Set designer: Cory Shipp
    Robin Hood Theatre The Watermill Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Laura Keefe
    Set designer: Frankie Bradshaw
    Easy Virtue Theatre The Watermill Theatre
    		Lighting Designer Director: Seamus Allen
    Set designer: Cory Shipp
    Cardiff Boy Theatre The Other Room, Cardiff
    Red Oak Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Matthew Holmquist
    Set designer: April Dalton
    The Island Theatre
    Fio     		Lighting Designer Director: ABDUL SHAYEK
    Set designer: BECKY DAVIES
    Wondertown Musical Ugly Duck, Tanner Street
    Bohemians Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Benjamin Mowbray
    Set designer: Kimmy Hanseo Kim
    The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives Theatre The Arcola Theatre
    Elufowoju jr Ensemble     		Lighting Designer Director: Femi Elufowoju jr
    Set designer: Ultz
    Dames Theatre The Pleasance London
    Siberian Lights     		Lighting Designer Director: Jamie Garven
    Set designer: April Dalton
    Assassins Non-professional Stratford Circus, London
    Rose Bruford College     		Lighting Designer Director: Laura Keefe
    Set designer: Sarah Kemp
    Finding Mr Hart Theatre Blackburn Cotton Exchange
    Being Human Festival     		Lighting Designer Director: Will Maynard
    Set designer: Anna Lewis
    Under Glass Dance
    Clod Ensemble     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Hansjorg Schmidt
    Set designer: Sarah Blenkinsop
    The River Theatre Loco Klub, Bristol
    Red Oak Theatre Co.     		Lighting Designer Director: Matthew Holmquist
    Set designer: April Dalton
    Landmines Theatre Ovalhouse Theatre
    Bridge Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Higham
    Set designer: Ryan Dawson-Laight
    After the Heat We Battle for the Heart Theatre The Vaults
    Tangled Thread     		Lighting Designer Director: Carla Kingham
    Contact method Details
    Email address ryan@rjsld.com
    Website www.rjsld.com
    Agent name Jasmine Daines Pilgrem
    Agent email jasmine@lisarichards.co.uk
    Agent phone +44 (0) 20 7287 1441