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Simon Wilkinson

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.

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Lighting Designer credits include:

Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK & Ireland), Vanishing Point’s Metamorphosis (Scotland / Italy), Vox Motus’s Flight (worldwide) and Robert Lepage’s production of The Magic Flute (Quebec City), The Panopticon, Interference, The 306: Dawn, Dragon (with Vox Motus and Tianjin People's Art Theatre), The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Roman Bridge, Truant and A Sheep Called Skye. For Vanishing Point, he has designed The Metamorphosis and.The Dark Carnival. For Vox Motus, his designs include Flight, Dragon, The Infamous Brothers Davenport (with the Lyceum, Edinburgh), The Not-So-Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo, Bright Black and the multi-award winning Slick. Work for Magnetic North includes Lost in Music, Our Fathers, Kora (with Dundee Rep), Sex and God, Pass the Spoon, Wild Life and After Mary Rose.

Theatre Designs credits include:

Christmas Tales, Glory on Earth, The Iliad, The Weir, The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe, Hedda Gabler, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The BFG, Bondagers, A Christmas Carol and Cinderella (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Islander (Helen Milne Productions); The Season and Honk (Royal & Derngate), Tay Bridge (Dundee Rep); Crocodile Fever, Meet Me at Dawn, Letters to Morrissey, Black Beauty, Grain in the Blood and Tracks of the Winter Bear (Traverse Theatre); Knives in Hens (Perth Theatre); A Game of Death and Chance and Enlightenment House (National Trust for Scotland); Scotties (Theatre Gu Leor); Crumbles Search for Christmas (West Yorkshire Playhouse); God of Carnage and This Wide Night (Tron Theatre, Glasgow); We Are All Just Little Creatures, Teenage Trilogy, Mamababame and PUSH (Curious Seed);  Fisk, The Lost Things and Feral (Tortoise in a Nutshell); Dr Stirlingshire's Discovery and Light Boxes (Grid Iron); Dance of Death (Candice Edmunds), Grounded (Firebrand); After The End and Topdog / Underdog (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Chalk Farm and The Static (ThickSkin)

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