About

Based in Sussex UK, Dan is a seasoned theatre maker with experience in performing, directing, marketing and sound design. He can most often be found designing lighting or operating light and sound. He graduated from Northbrook MET in 2019 with a first class BA honours in Theatre Arts and was nominated for the Outstanding Achievement Award in arts.

Dan approaches light as an artistic medium. He is interested in applying transdisciplinary techniques to scenographic light, often using enhanced naturalistic light in expressionistic forms.

Dan is experienced with Zero 88, Chamsys and ETC lighting desks, and Capture Visualisation software.

As of April 2022, Dan is now the In-House Lighting Technician for The Old Market Theatre, in Brighton.

Previous engagements include:
Funny That Comedy - various venues, 2022
The Element in the Room: A Radioactive Musical Comedy about The Death & Life of Marie Curie by John Hinton - Tangram Theatre, various venues 2021 and 2022
Beauty and the Beast (Pantomime) - Paul Holman Associates with Worthing Theatres and Museums, Pavilion Theatre, Worthing 2021
Ensonglopedia of the Human by John Winton – various venues 2021
The Warren Festival: ‘The Oil Shed’ with various artists - Otherplace Productions, Brighton Fringe Festival 2021
Di and Viv and Rose by Amelia Bullmore – Ruby Tiger Productions, The Rialto, Brighton 2020
Live Music Nights by various artists - The Factory Live, Worthing 2020
Ensonglopedia of Animals by John Winton – various venues 2020
Epicene by Paul Diello – various venues 2016-2020
Quintessence by Emily Carding –Talos Scifi Theatre Festival at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham 2019
Professor Wollstonecraft’s Victorian Cabinet of Curiosities by Frog Feather Theatre – The Walrus, Brighton 2019
Pickwick and Weller by Barry Purchese adapted from Charles Dickens- New Venture Theatre, Brighton 2019
Bomb Sex by Fintan Shevlin - Brighton Fringe (Pebble Trust Award nominee) / Hope Theatre, London 2018
The National Theatre of Brent presents: The Messiah by Patrick Barlow - New Venture Theatre, Brighton 2017
Proof by David Auburn - New Venture Theatre, Brighton 2017
The Thrill of Love by Amanda Whittington - New Venture Theatre, Brighton 2015
Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask - New Venture Theatre, Brighton 2014
Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger - New Venture Theatre, Brighton 2013
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson adapted by Amy Curtis - The Wick, Barn Theatre, Southwick 2012
Calendar Girls by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth - The Wick, Barn Theatre, Southwick 2012
The Price by Arthur Miller - New Venture Theatre, Brighton 2012
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright - New Venture Theatre, Brighton 2012
A Feast of Fools by Theatre of Now - Marlborough Theatre, Brighton 2011
Crimes Against Humanities Teachers by Andy Thomas - Brighton Fringe Festival 2011
All My Sons by Arthur Miller - New Venture Theatre, Brighton 2011
Icarus by Ulrike Schilling - New Venture Theatre, Brighton 2010