Simon Wilkinson
Lighting Designer
Simon works internationally as a lighting designer for theatre, dance, and opera.
Recent highlights include Punchdrunk’s Viola’s Room, the world premiere of Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK & Ireland), Islander (US Tour / New York / London), Vanishing Point’s Metamorphosis (Scotland / Italy), Vox Motus’s Flight (worldwide) and Robert Lepage’s production of The Magic Flute (Quebec City).
For the National Theatre of Scotland, Simon has lit The Panopticon, Interference, The 306: Dawn, Dragon, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish & Roman Bridge. He has designed work for most of Scotland’s leading theatre companies, including Love the Sinner, A Love Beyond, The Metamorphosis, The Dark Carnival (Vanishing Point); Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape, Castle Lennox, Glory on Earth, The Iliad, The Weir, Hedda Gabler, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Bondagers (Lyceum); Crocodile Fever, Our Fathers, Meet Me at Dawn, Letters to Morrissey, Grain in the Blood (Traverse); I Am Tiger, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Knives in Hens (Perth Theatre); Don Quixote, The Children and Tay Bridge (Dundee Rep); The Stamping Ground (Raw Material); A Mother’s Song (KT Producing); Muster Station: Leith (Grid Iron / Edinburgh International Festival)
Simon has won the Critics Award For Theatre in Scotland for Best Design three times - for Flight, Black Beauty, and Bondagers, and won a 2024 Profile Award for Ragnarok. Over the years, his lighting has created a Guinness World Record, brought tens of thousands of people to a windswept Highland Forest and caused reports of an alien invasion.