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: 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 recently been made a Fellow of the Association
of Lighting Designers.
