LEONARD TUCKER
Lighting Designer
Leonard has over 50 years experience in theatre lighting design,
including 22 years as head of the National Theatre's lighting
department, lighting amongst others, St Joan;
The Master Builder; Othello (with
Laurence Olivier); Much Ado About Nothing;
Richard III; Front Page;
Tartuffe; Plunder; The
Plough and the Stars; The Tempest;
The Country Wife; When We Are
Married; Close of Play; The
Second Mrs Tanqueray; The Spanish Tragedy
and The Magistrate.
He has designed the lighting for over 100 West End productions,
which include: Jeffrey Barnard Is Unwell, starring
Tom Conti; A Song at Twilight; Night Must
Fall; Three Tall Women, The
Weekend; Philadelphia Here I come;
Deja Vu; Private Lives;
The Fifteen Streets; Easy Virtue;
Artist Descending A Staircase; Noel &
Gertie; Ardele; Family
Dance; Ten Times Table; Ghost
Train; Frontiers of Farce; A
Nightingale Sang; Candida; The
Beastly Baetitudes of Balthazar B; Otherwise
Engaged; House Guest; The Old
Country; Dead Ringer; Saturday,
Sunday, Monday; Quatertermaine's Terms;
Staefel Variations; Lovers
Dancing; 42nd Street (with Joe Davis);
Look No Hans; The Browning
Version; Harelquinade; The Common
Pursuit; Married Love; Over My
Dead Body; Frankie and Johnnie at the Clair de
Lune; The Young Idea;
Marrakesh; Faith, Hope and
Charity; Shirley Valentine and
The Philanthropist.
Other credits include: Wife After Death, Churchill
Theatre and national tour; Relatively Speaking and
The Real Thing, Bath Theatre Royal and tour;
The Importance of Being Earnest, Greenwich
Theatre; Billy Liar, ATG Ltd; One Helluva
Life, with Tom Conti; Snakes and Ladders,
Bromley & tour; Ravel/Henze Double Bill, Royal
Academy of Music; Confusions and Why
Me? PFP Ltd; Blithe Spirit, Palace
Theatre, Watford, Dick Barton: Special Agent,
Warehouse Theatre, Croydon; How the Other Half
Loves, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre & tour; Perfect
Days & Taking Steps, Derby Playhouse;
Featuring Loretta, Hampstead Theatre;
Romeo and Juliet, Greenwich Theatre;
Mail-Order Bride & A Going
Concern, Nuffield Theatre; Edmund Kean
& Good Morning Bill, Palace Theatre, Watford;
Wait Until Dark & Table
Manners, Watermill Theatre; Switchback,
Make Way For Lucia & It Can Damage
Your Health, Churchill Theatre; Treasure
Island, Edinburgh Festival; The Merchant of
Venice & Volpone, English Shakespeare
Company; The Power and the Glory,
Chichester.
Lennie has been made a Fellow of the Association of
Lighting Designers in recognition of his achievements in
theatre lighting.
