Mark Howland
Mark has enjoyed collaborating with English Touring Opera and has lit their Spring 2020 productions of Giulio Cesare and Cosi Fan Tutte . Previous productions include: Giulio Cesare and Dardanus, Tosca, Patience, Xerxes, La Callisto and Ulysses' Homecoming. Earlier productions include Peleas et Melisande, Werther, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Siege of Calais, The Wild Man of the West Indies and La Boheme.
Productions for Opera Holland Park include La rondine and Don Giovanni; The Elixir of Love and Rodelinda (Scottish Opera small-scale touring). Other opera productions include Cendrillon and Macbeth, (Blackheath Halls) and The Barber of Seville, (Armonico Consort).
Mark’s recent theatre lighting credits include: The Remains of the Day (Northampton Theatres); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Queen's Theatre Hornchurch); Hard Times (Northern Broadsides); Sleeping Beauty (Theatr Clwyd); Pride and Prejudice (Nottingham Playhouse and York Theatre Royal); Flashdance the Musical (Selladoor); Madame Rubinstein (Park Theatre) and Dirty Great Love Story (Arts Theatre).
Mark had a long and successful collaboration with the Gate Theatre, lighting many of their productions under artistic director Christopher Haydon, including the award-winning Grounded, winner of a Fringe First followed by a successful international and national tour. Other lighting designs include The Convert, Diary of a Madman, The Christians, Image of An Unknown Young Woman, Eclipsed, The Edge Of Our Bodies, Purple Heart, The Trojan Women, The Prophet, The Kreutzer Sonata, Wittenberg and Yerma.
Productions for Hampstead Theatre include A Further Education, Elephants, Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (also at Trafalgar Studios), The Blackest Black and Ignorance.
Previous lighting credits include: Rudolf (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Sideways (St James’s Theatre); Soul, (Northampton Theatres); Four Minutes Twelve seconds (Trafalgar Studios), The Glass Menagerie (Nottingham Playhouse); The Patriotic Traitor (Park Theatre); Kite, (The Wrong Crowd); The Winter’s Tale, She Stoops To Conquer, An August Bank Holiday Lark and The Grand Gesture, (Northern Broadsides). Twelve Angry Men, (Garrick Theatre London and Birmingham Rep); Dancing At Lughnasa, Ghosts and Sweeney Todd, (Aarhus Teater, Denmark); Brassed Off, (York Theatre Royal and national tour); The Ladykillers and I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire, (New Vic); South Pacific, (Kilworth House Theatre); The Life and Loves of a Nobody, (Third Angel); Entertaining Mr Sloane, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Absurd Person Singular, Translations and Molly Sweeney, (Curve); The Man Jesus, Pride and Prejudice the Musical, Uncle Vanya and Dockers, (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Hitchcock Blonde, (Hull Truck); Rapunzel and the Rascal Prince, Dick Turpin’s Last Ride, Much Ado About Nothing, The London Merchant, Cider With Rosie and The Merchant of Venice, (Theatre Royal Bury); A Beginning, A Middle and an End, (Greyscale); Canvas, (Chichester Festival Theatre); Singin In The Rain, (Det Ny Teater, Copehagen); Bea (On Empathy), (On Theatre at Soho Theatre); Pressure Drop, (Wellcome Collection); Electra, (Young Vic); The Pains of Youth, (Belgrade Theatre).
Dance lighting credits include: 7-75 for Amy Hodge (The Place).
Mark was nominated for a Knights of Illumination Award 2016 for his lighting of ETO's Peleas et Melisande and an Irish Times Theatre Award for The Man Jesus.
Future productions include: Young Frankenstein (Queens Theatre Hornchurch 2021)
Mark has enjoyed collaborating with English Touring Opera and has lit their Spring 2020 productions of Giulio Cesare and Cosi Fan Tutte . Previous productions include: Giulio Cesare and Dardanus, Tosca, Patience, Xerxes, La Callisto and Ulysses' Homecoming. Earlier productions include Peleas et Melisande, Werther, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Siege of Calais, The Wild Man of the West Indies and La Boheme.
Productions for Opera Holland Park include La rondine and Don Giovanni; The Elixir of Love and Rodelinda (Scottish Opera small-scale touring). Other opera productions include Cendrillon and Macbeth, (Blackheath Halls) and The Barber of Seville, (Armonico Consort).
Mark’s recent theatre lighting credits include: The Remains of the Day (Northampton Theatres); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Queen's Theatre Hornchurch); Hard Times (Northern Broadsides); Sleeping Beauty (Theatr Clwyd); Pride and Prejudice (Nottingham Playhouse and York Theatre Royal); Flashdance the Musical (Selladoor); Madame Rubinstein (Park Theatre) and Dirty Great Love Story (Arts Theatre).
Mark had a long and successful collaboration with the Gate Theatre, lighting many of their productions under artistic director Christopher Haydon, including the award-winning Grounded, winner of a Fringe First followed by a successful international and national tour. Other lighting designs include The Convert, Diary of a Madman, The Christians, Image of An Unknown Young Woman, Eclipsed, The Edge Of Our Bodies, Purple Heart, The Trojan Women, The Prophet, The Kreutzer Sonata, Wittenberg and Yerma.
Productions for Hampstead Theatre include A Further Education, Elephants, Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (also at Trafalgar Studios), The Blackest Black and Ignorance.
Previous lighting credits include: Rudolf (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Sideways (St James’s Theatre); Soul, (Northampton Theatres); Four Minutes Twelve seconds (Trafalgar Studios), The Glass Menagerie (Nottingham Playhouse); The Patriotic Traitor (Park Theatre); Kite, (The Wrong Crowd); The Winter’s Tale, She Stoops To Conquer, An August Bank Holiday Lark and The Grand Gesture, (Northern Broadsides). Twelve Angry Men, (Garrick Theatre London and Birmingham Rep); Dancing At Lughnasa, Ghosts and Sweeney Todd, (Aarhus Teater, Denmark); Brassed Off, (York Theatre Royal and national tour); The Ladykillers and I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire, (New Vic); South Pacific, (Kilworth House Theatre); The Life and Loves of a Nobody, (Third Angel); Entertaining Mr Sloane, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Absurd Person Singular, Translations and Molly Sweeney, (Curve); The Man Jesus, Pride and Prejudice the Musical, Uncle Vanya and Dockers, (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Hitchcock Blonde, (Hull Truck); Rapunzel and the Rascal Prince, Dick Turpin’s Last Ride, Much Ado About Nothing, The London Merchant, Cider With Rosie and The Merchant of Venice, (Theatre Royal Bury); A Beginning, A Middle and an End, (Greyscale); Canvas, (Chichester Festival Theatre); Singin In The Rain, (Det Ny Teater, Copehagen); Bea (On Empathy), (On Theatre at Soho Theatre); Pressure Drop, (Wellcome Collection); Electra, (Young Vic); The Pains of Youth, (Belgrade Theatre).
Dance lighting credits include: 7-75 for Amy Hodge (The Place).
Mark was nominated for a Knights of Illumination Award 2016 for his lighting of ETO's Peleas et Melisande and an Irish Times Theatre Award for The Man Jesus.
Future productions include: Young Frankenstein (Queens Theatre Hornchurch 2021)