He was born in Wimbledon, UK and studied geography at the University of Oxford. He was an apprentice to lighting designers Ben Ormerod and Paule Constable. His first collaboration with the Royal Opera House London was in 2002. He has designed lighting for a wide range of opera works, staged in major theaters and opera centers, including: Vienna, Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Berlin State Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, Bregenz Festival (Austria), Chicago Grand Opera, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Bologna, Leipzig, Geneva, Granada, Valencia, Antwerp, Montpellier, and Châtelet Theater Paris. In the UK, he designed lighting for productions at the Garsington Opera, English National Opera (Carmen), Scottish Opera, Royal Opera of London (La donna del lago, Don Giovanni), as well as the Opera North (La clemenza di Tito, Věc Makropulos). In theatre, he has collaborated with the West End Theater, the Royal Court Theater, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater of London. He has won the Critics' Award for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) for Best Design (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Australia’s Green Room award (Rusalka, Sydney Opera House, 2007) and the Olivier award for Best Lighting Design (Frankenstein, National Theatre of Great Britain, 2012). For the GNO, he designed lighting for the operas I puritani (2008/09), and Mavra, Die sieben Todsünden and Gianni Schicchi (2007/08). // Last update of the biography: December 2015.