Hartley T A Kemp - Lighting Designer
Hartley is an international lighting designer and theatre consultant whose experience includes Broadway, West End, major UK producing companies, and theatres and arts venues in Europe, North America, Australia and worldwide.
Hartley's work includes designs for the National Theatre of Great Britain and Royal Shakespeare Company (London, Stratford and international), in theatres in London's West End, and for London producing theatres including the Almeida, BAC, Bush, Donmar Warehouse, Finborough, Gate, Hampstead, King's Head, Lyric Hammersmith, Menier Chocolate Factory, New End, Old Vic, Royal Court, Southwark Playhouse, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Tricycle. Regional UK work includes Paines Plough, Theatre Royal Bath Productions, Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Clwyd Theatre Cymru, Northcott Theatre Exeter, Sheffield Theatres, Manchester Royal Exchange, West Yorkshire Playhouse, and UK touring. Opera includes Royal Opera House Linbury Studio, Opera Holland Park, Castleward Opera Northern Ireland, and Queen Elizabeth Hall.
In Australia Hartley has worked with Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Bell Shakespeare, Little Dove Theatre Art and Ride On Theatre.
His work in North America includes Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional. Europe includes Austria, Germany, Iceland, Ireland (including Gate Theatre, Dublin) and Sweden. Worldwide work and touring includes Hong Kong, Korea, Russia and South Africa and Singapore.
Hartley has collaborated with directors Maria Aitken, John Burgess, Dominic Dromgoole, Mehmet Ergen, David Farr, Gisli Orn Gardarsson, Peter Gill, Tanya Goldberg, Michael Grandage, James Grieve, Peter Hall, Angus Jackson, Rachel Kavanaugh, Roisin McBrinn, Chenoeh Miller, Paul Miller, Vernon Mound, Jonathan Munby, Trevor Nunn, Pamela Rabe, Josie Rourke, Charlotte Westenra, and with designers Liz Ascroft, Nick Barnes, Angela Davies, Alison Chitty, Anna Cordingley, Simon Daw, William Dudley, David Farley, Tracy Grant Lord, Ti Green, Hayden Griffin, John Gunter, Robert Innes Hopkins, Steven Brimson Lewis, Peter McKintosh, Christopher Oram, Lucy Osborne, Richard Roberts, Ben Stones, Philip Whitcomb and Paul Wills.
In addition to his lighting design and theatre consultancy work, Hartley is Artistic Director of C venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Current projects include Our New Girl (The Bush, London), The Story of Mary MacLane by Herself (Ride On Theatre/Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney and tour), Les Liasons Dangereuses (Sydney Theatre Company), and The Duchess of Malfi (Bell Shakespeare, Sydney Opera House, Playhouse)
Theatre
National Theatre of Great Britain The Voysey Inheritance (Lyttleton), Scenes from the Big Picture (Cottesloe), Elmina's Kitchen (Cottesloe/Birmingham Rep/West End).
Royal Shakespeare Company Romeo and Juliet (Stratford and West End), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice (Stratford, USA, Regional Tour, West End).
Donmar Warehouse, London Lower Ninth (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Donmar and tour), Days of Wine and Roses, Passion Play, Good.
Old Vic, London Gaslight, transfers of Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tempest.
Sydney Theatre Company In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play (Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sumner Theatre, Melbourne and tour).
Melbourne Theatre Company The Gift (Sumner Theatre and Gelong).
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne The Story of Mary MacLane by Herself (Beckett, with Ride On Theatre and Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney).
Little Dove Theatre Art/Motherboard Productions Cordelia (The Street, Canberra).
Fugard, Cape Town A Number.
Gate, Dublin Great Expectations, American Buffalo.
English Theatre, Frankfurt Hysteria.
London West End and Touring The Birthday Party (Birmingham Rep and West End), The York Realist (English Touring Theatre and Royal Court); Mrs Warren's Profession (Peter Hall Company and Stanhope Productions, West End), Where There's A Will (Peter Hall Company and Theatre Royal Bath); 50 Revolutions (Oxford Stage Company, Whitehall Theatre).
Almeida, London The Doctor's Dilemma (Almeida and tour); Certain Young Men, Tongue of a Bird.
Bush, London Our New Girl, Apologia, Wrecks, How to Curse; Artefacts (Bush/Nabokov, UK and New York tour).
Lyric Hammersmith, London Metamorphosis (co-production with Vesturport, Iceland, also world tour).
Paines Plough Love, Love, Love (Drum Theatre, Plymouth, Palace Theatre, Watford and UK tour).
London Off-West End Nakamitsu (Gate); The Rubenstein Kiss (Hampstead Theatre); The White Devil, The Common Pursuit, Total Eclipse (Menier Chocolate Factory); Faith (Royal Court Upstairs); The Field (Tricycle).
Sheffield Theatres A Number (Sheffield Crucible Studio and Minerva, Chichester); Gladiator Games (Sheffield Crucible Studio and Theatre Royal, Stratford East); The Tempest (Sheffield Crucible and Old Vic, London); As You Like It (Sheffield Crucible and Lyric, Hammersmith); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Original Sin, Don Juan, The Country Wife, A View from the Bridge, Twelfth Night (Sheffield Crucible); Queueing for Everest (Sheffield Crucible Studio).
Bristol Old Vic Arcadia (Bristol Old Vic/Birmingham Rep), The Rivals, Loot, Paradise Lost, The Comedy of Errors, The Caretaker, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Other UK Regional Rutherford and Son (Royal Exchange, Manchester); No Sweat (Birmingham Rep); Treehouses (Northcott, Exeter); Dealer's Choice (Clwyd Teatr Cymru); Dealer's Choice (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
London Fringe Thieves Like Us, In the Jungle of Cities, Prince on a White Bike, Rosmersholm, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer, Rosmersholm (Southwark Playhouse); The Lisbon Traviata (King's Head); The Disputation and The Queen of Spades and I (New End, Hampstead); The Golem (Bridewell); When Did you Last See My Mother?, Baby Jean (BAC); A Week with Tony (Finborough).
Musicals
Broadway A Little Night Music (Walter Kerr Theater).
West End A Little Night Music (Garrick Theatre, original production Menier Chocolate Factory).
Europe Miss Saigon (Gothenburg Opera, Sweden); Showboat, West Side Story (Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck, Austria).
UK Regional Promises, Promises (Sheffield Crucible); The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep).
UK Small-Scale Dorian (Arts Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Theatre
Royal, Hanley); The Happy Prince (Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond); Assassins and Sweet Lorraine (Old Fire Station, Oxford).
Opera
ROH Linbury Studio Mary Seacole (Gynyame); Oreste and Oresteia (English Bach Festival Opera).
Opera Holland Park Les Pecheurs des Perles, Iris.
Castleward Opera M Butterfly,
Martha, The Barber of Seville, La Sonnambula, Carmen (Castleward and Belfast).
UK Small-Scale A Masked Ball (Northern Opera, Whitley Bay Playhouse).
Touring Die Fledermaus (London City Opera, Chichester Festival Theatre and tour); The Marriage of Figaro (QEH and tour).
In addition to his lighting design and theatre consultancy work, Hartley is Artistic Director of C venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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