Paul Pyant - Lighting Designer
PAUL PYANT Lighting Designer
British born lighting designer Paul Pyant is a graduate (1973) and associate of
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Long association with Glyndebourne Opera. Lighting credits there include
Sir Peter Hall productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Falstaff and New Year
as well as the Stephen Lawless production of Death in Venice.
Extensive work in Opera worldwide. Credits include:
Pique Dame (For Elijah Moshinsky at the Metropolitan Opera , New York)
Don Pasquale, The Elixir of Love, Il Trovatore (all for Stephen Lawless),
The Flying Dutchman (For Julie Taymor)
Bluebeards Castle/Gianni Schicchi(William Friedkin)(All for the Los Angeles Opera)
Fedora, Le Nozze di Figaro (For Jonathan Miller) (at the Vienna Staatsoper)
Hamlet (Lawless) and Gigi (Gillian Lynne) (for the Vienna Volksoper)
Stiffelio (Moshinsky) (La Scala, Milan; Los Angeles , Covent Garden and Vienna)
New Year (Peter Hall), Tosca (Michael Blakemore) Florencia en el Amazonas
(Francessca Zambello) Don Carlo (Emilio Sagi) (All for the Houston Grand Opera)
Vanessa (For John Cox at the Opera de Monte Carlo)
Cosi fan Tutte, Le Nozze di Figaro (For Jonathan Miller, Maggico Musicale: Firenze)
Simon Boccenegra (Lawless) (New Zealand International Festival)
Don Giovanni (for Johannes Schaff at the Kirov Opera in St.Petersburg)
Clemenza di Tito (Lawless) (Dallas Opera) Boulevard Solitude (Lehnhoff) (Genova) Eugene Onegin, Orfeo (Michael McCaffrey) Rigoletto (Poutney) (New Israeli Opera)
Xerxes (Hytner; the ENO Production has also been mounted by theVictoria State Opera, Melbourne, The Valamse Opera Belgium, Bolonga Opera & San Paulo)
Opera credits in the United Kingdom includes extensive work since 1985
with English National Opera, including Xerxes (Nicholas Hytner)
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Macbeth, Street Scene, Don Carlos,
Falstaff (All for David Poutney), Khovanshina (Zambello), Salome(David Leveaux),
Orpheus & Eurydice (Martha Clarke) Turk in Italy (David Fielding).
Work with the Royal Opera,Covent Garden include Gawain (Di Trevis)
Stiffellio (Moshinsky) Die Zauberflote (Martin Duncan) Viaggio a Rhiems (Cox)
and Boulevard Solitude (Nicholas Lenhoff) Le Nozze di Figaro (Patrick Young)
Don Giovanni (Zambello)
UK regional opera work credits include productions for Welsh National Opera
[Doctor of Myddfai (Poutney) Turn of the Screw (John Crowley)]
Scottish Opera [The Magic Fountain (Aidan Lang) Le Nozze di Figaro (Leveaux)]
Opera North [Playing Away, Genoveva (Poutney) The Reluctant King (Jeremy Sams)]
Work in Ballet includes productions with English National Ballet [Giselle, Nutcracker
(for Derek Deane) Sleeping Beauty (Ronald Hynde) Cinderella (Michael Corder)]
and a long association with Christopher Gable/Michael Pink at Northern Ballet Theatre where productions included Romeo & Juliet, A Christmas Carol (Massimo Morricone),
The Brontes (Gillian Lynne) and the many Gable/Michael Pink collaborations including
Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Swan Lake and Cinderella .
Ballet outside the UK have included productions at The Norwegian National Ballet,
Boston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, The Royal New Zealand Ballet.
UK Theatre credits include a long association with the Royal National Theatre in
London. Productions there have included The Wind in the Willows (Nytner)
(Olivier nomination for Best lighting) The Madness of George III (Hytner)
(London and world tour) Arcadia (Trevor Nunn) (London and New York, Tony Nomination for Best Lighting) Othello (Sam Mendes) (World Tour)
Carousel (Nick Hytner) (London, New York & Tokyo)(Critics Circle award for Best
Lighting and Drama Desk nomination) (US Tour: LA Ovation award nominee) and
most recently Troilus and Cressida (Nunn) Candide and Hamlet (John Caird)
(World Tour) (Hamlet: 2001 Olivier award nominee).Humble Boy (Caird)
Frozen (Bill Alexander)
Associated with Sam Mendes’ Donmar Warehouse in London since it opened
and productions have included Company, Cabaret, Assassins, Habeus Corpus
Translations,(All for Sam Mendes) Nine, Electra (David Leveaux) Into the Woods and How I learned to Drive (John Crowley)
Work for the Royal Shakespeare Company has included Richard III, The Tempest
(For Mendes) The Painter of Dishonour (Lawrence Boswell)) and Julius Ceasar (Stephen Pimlott)
Work in theatre extends in the UK to LondonWest end and British Regional productions as
well as New Yorks’’ Broadway and theatres worldwide:
West End Credits have included Talking Heads, Single Spies (Directed by
Alan Bennett), The Importance of Being Earnest (Hytner) Alarms and Excursions
(Michael Blakemore) Cressida (Hytner) and Long Days Journey into Night
(Robin Phillips)Life after George(Blakemore)Humble Boy (Caird) and
Bedroom Farce (Loveday Ingram)
Recent theatre work abroad has included A Midsummer Nights Dream for the
Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.(For John Caird)
Broadway productions have included Orpheus Descending (Peter Hall) (Tony Nomination for Best Lighting) and most recently Electra (David Leveaux)
Sole representation Jeffrey Cambell Management (UK)
visit the agency web site at www.theatricaldesigners.co.uk
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