GERRY JENKINSON

Lighting Designer

Gerry Jenkinson's extensive career in theatre includes: for the Royal Shakespeare Company The Revenger's Tragedy, at the Swan Theatre and A Woman of No Importance for the Barbican Theatre; The White Devil, For Services Rendered, Thee and Me, The Elephant Man, Translations, Martine, The Duchess of Malfi, School for Wives, Entertaining Strangers, Cymbeline and The Tempest all for the Royal National Theatre.

Recent credits include: Yerma, adapted by Frank McGuiness, Arcola Theatre; Ricky and Me, for the Comedy Unit; Nothing, off-Broadway, New York and Present Laughter for Bath Theatre Royal.

Repertory theatre includes: David Copperfield, West Yorkshire Playhouse; Girl With Red Hair, Edinburgh Lyceum and Hampstead Theatre; The Big Life, Theatre Royal Stratford East; True West, Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Two Sisters and a Piano, Riverside Studios; Golden Boy, Greenwich Theatre; Neville’s Island, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse; Conversations on a Homecoming, Lyric Belfast; Chewin’ the Fat, The Comedy Unit; Arcadia, Gate Theatre, Dublin; The Celtic Story, Balcony Productions; The Relapse, Citizens Theatre and national tour; The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Lyric Hammersmith; Cracked, Hampstead Theatre; A Doll's House, A Small Family Business and Heartlanders, Birmingham Rep; Pygmallion, Stockholm; Colquhon and McBryde and Jenkin's Ear, Royal Court; Walter, Edinburgh Festival; Desire, Almeida Theatre; Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, Bush Theatre; A Collier's Friday Night, Greenwich Theatre; A Family Affair and Romeo and Juliet, Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh; The Shaughran, Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

West End credits include: The Big Life, Semi-Monde, Rupert Sreet Lonely Hearts Club, Lady Windermere's Fan, Oleanna, The Invisible Man, Travels With My Aunt, (also in New York), A Woman of No Importance, Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera, The Vortex, A Madhouse in Goa, The Black Prince, Summit Conference, Mother Courage, Torch Song Trilogy, Phaedra, The Normal Heart, The Entertainer, Pal Joey, The Rocky Horror Show, Strange Interlude and Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme.

Among his credits for Opera are: Hey Persephone! Almeida Theatre; The Barber of Seville, Opera North & Scottish Opera; Giovanni D'Arco, Lazarus, Royal Opera House and Opera North;The Pearl Fishers, English National Opera; La Traviata and The Merry Widow, Scottish Opera; Tamburlaine and Rigoletto Welsh National Opera; La Gioconda, Threepenny Opera, Orpheus and Euradice, Aida and Masquerade Opera North; Salome, Edinburgh International Festival; Falstaff, Glyndebourne Theatre and Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Buxton Festival.

Future productions include: Koanga! for Pegasus Opera.

Further examples of Gerry's work can be found at www.gerryjenkinson.co.uk