Chris Ellis

Chris enjoys a design career that embraces many aspects of lighting with design credits in opera, musical theatre, drama and dance. In 1997 he formed Chris Ellis Lighting to extend his work into architectural design.

He has created opera designs for the National Musikteater Amsterdam, Den Norske Oper, the Royal Opera House, the English National, Welsh National, Scottish and Opera North companies and worked extensively for the Royal Shakespeare, Royal National Theatre and Deutscher Schauspielhaus Hamburg companies.

Recent designs include: DANCE OF THE VAMPIES (Budapest), MAN OF LA MANCHA (Edinburgh Lyceum), MY FAIR LADY (Denmark); THE CHINESE CONJUROR (Almeida Opera); THE NIGHTINGALE’S TO BLAME  (Opera North);  ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Den Norske Opera, Scottish Opera); THE FORBIDDEN CITY (Singapore Esplanade Theatre); PRAVDA, 5/11 for Chichester Festival Theatre ; SWEET CHARITY  (Teatro Della Luna in Milan);  FOLLOW MY LEADER (Hampstead); TELSTAR, SINGING IN THE RAIN, UTE LEMPER IN CONCERT, ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY, RENT, TABOO, ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, LA CAVA, BRIEF ENCOUNTER, SOUL TRAIN, BOYBAND, LOVE UPON THE THRONE (West End); THE MYSTERIES OF SEX (Royal National); ON YOUR TOES (Royal Festival Hall & Japan).

Examples of Chris’ work can be found on his website.

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