JOHN HARRIS

THE BIOG

John Harris (Lighting Designer) was Chief Electrician at the Shaftesbury Theatre until 1995. He became Andy Philip's assistant, with whom he worked on many productions in the provinces and the West End.

As a Lighting Designer, theatre credits include: "Son of Man", RSC; "Uncle Vanya", Albery Theatre; "Michael Feinstein", Comedy Theatre; "Women on The Verge of HRT", UK Tour; "Small Change" and "Moving Susan" for the Basingstoke Haymarket. For the Arundel Festival, he has designed 'Henry V", "Macbeth" and "Midsummer Nights Dream" and “Much Ado About Nothing”. He has worked extensively for the Orange Tree in Richmond where his recent lighting designs include "The Road to the Sea”, “Simplicity”, “Me Myself and I”, “Dona Rosita” “Love’s a Luxury’ (also at the Stephen Joseph Theatre) and “Myth Propaganda and Disaster…”, For Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre he has designed "The Curious Quest for the Sandman's Sand", "Skool & Crossbones", "Shake Ripple & Roll", "Pandemonium! (a Greek Myth-adventure)" including a run at the Edinburgh Festival 2001 and each pantomime since 2001.

He has also relit many shows on tour including "Hayfever", "Calamity Jane", "Martin Guerre", "Dame Edna", "Kill a Mockingbird", "Month in the Country", "Uncle Vanya" and "Mansfield Park".

As a Vari-Lite programmer and crew chief he has worked around the world including Saudi Arabia, the Caribbean, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Athens and Dubai; as well as in the UK on the "Brit Awards", Earls Court; the "MTV Awards", Dublin; "Joy to the World", Albert Hall; "Passion Play", Donmar Warehouse and Comedy Theatre; "Hotstuff", Leicester Haymarket; "Godspell", for David Pugh; "The Buckingham Palace Jubliee Celebrations" for Unusual Events; "Torvill and Dean" at Nottingham's Ice Stadium; "Showtime at The Stadium" for BBC Wales & LSD at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, the closing performance of "Cats"(London) for Cameron Mackintosh and as UK Moving Light Programmer for ‘The Producers’

Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Recent credits include Associate Lighting Designer ‘Miss Saigon’ (UK Tour), Vari-Lite programmer for the Gala Performance of ‘Les Miserables’ (Entente Cordiale, Windsor Castle, November 04) and as Lighting Designer of the world premiere of ‘Flying Under Bridges’ (Watford Palace Theatre) ‘Kingfisher Blue’ (The Bush Theatre) and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (Birmingham Rep), He is Lighting Designer for ‘Time’s Up’ the world premiere of the new Ray Cooney musical, opening at the Yvonne Arnaud in October 2005.