Hartley T A Kemp - Lighting Designer
Hartley's work includes designs for the National
Theatre, London and Royal Shakespeare Company,
London West End theatres, Donmar Warehouse,
Lyric Hammersmith, Almeida, Royal Court,
Hampstead, Tricycle, Bush, Gate, Menier Chocolate
Factory, Southwark Playhouse, King's Head, New
End, Finborough, Bridewell, Arts Theatre and BAC.
Regional UK work includes Sheffield Theatres,
Bristol Old Vic, Manchester Royal Exchange,
Birmingham Rep, Theatre Royal Bath Productions,
Northcott Theatre Exeter, Clwyd Theatre Cymru,
West Yorkshire Playhouse, and tours. Opera
includes Royal Opera House Linbury Studio, Opera
Holland Park, Castleward Opera Northern Ireland,
and Queen Elizabeth Hall. Musicals include West
End, Sheffield, Birmingham, Europe and off-West
End and small scale productions. His international
work and tours of his work include Australia,
Austria, Ireland, Germany, Iceland, Hong Kong,
Korea, Russia, Singapore, Sweden and the USA.
Hartley has worked with directors including John
Burgess, Dominic Dromgoole, Mehmet Ergen, David
Farr, Gisli Orn Gardarsson, Peter Gill, Michael
Grandage, Peter Hall, Angus Jackson, Rachel
Kavanaugh, Roisin McBrinn, Paul Miller, Vernon
Mound, Jonathan Munby, Trevor Nunn, Josie
Rourke, Charlotte Westenra, and with designers Liz
Ascroft, Nick Barnes, Angela Davies, Alison Chitty,
Simon Daw, William Dudley, David Farley, Ti Green,
Hayden Griffin, John Gunter, Steven Brimson Lewis,
Peter McKintosh, Christopher Oram, Lucy Osborne,
Ben Stones, Philip Whitcomb and Paul Wills.
Hartley's lighting can currently be seen in A
Little Night Music at the Walter Kerr Theater
on Broadway.
Theatre
National Theatre 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 Kiss of the Spider
Woman, (Donmar and tour), Days of Wine
and Roses, Passion Play, Good.
Old Vic Gaslight, transfers of
Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The
Tempest.
Lyric Hammersmith
Metamorphosis (co-production with
Vesturport, Iceland, also world tour).
Almeida The Doctor’s Dilemma
(Almeida and tour); Certain Young Men, Tongue
of a Bird.
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).
Off-West End The White Devil, The
Common Pursuit, Total Eclipse (Menier
Chocolate Factory); Apologia,
Wrecks, How to Curse (Bush);
Artefacts (Bush/Nabokov, UK and New York
tour); Nakamitsu (Gate); The Field
(Tricycle); The Rubenstein Kiss (Hampstead
Theatre); Faith (Royal Court Upstairs).
Gate, Dublin Great Expectations,
American Buffalo.
English Threatre, Frankfurt
Hysteria.
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 (Sheffiend
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 Pêcheurs 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).
Hartley is also artistic director of C venues at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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