Simon Wilkinson
Lighting Designer
Simon Wilkinson is a Lighting Designer for theatre, dance and opera. Recent credits include Sleep No More (Seoul), Viola’s Room (London/New York), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (UK & Ireland Tour), Islander (US Tour, New York, London), Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey (Scotland, Japan), Metamorphosis (Scotland, Italy).
Other credits include The Panopticon, Interference, The 306: Dawn, Dragon, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish and Roman Bridge (National Theatre of Scotland); 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, 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, Tay Bridge (Dundee Rep); The Stamping Ground (Raw Material); A Mother’s Song (KT Producing); Muster Station: Leith (Grid Iron/Edinburgh International Festival).
Awards include a Profile Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre Lighting for Ragnarok (2024) and four Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland for Best Design (Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey, Flight, Black Beauty, Bondagers). His work has created a Guinness World Record, drawn tens of thousands to a Highland forest, and even sparked reports of an alien invasion.