Chris Swain
Lighting Designer
Chris is a Lighting Designer based in Bristol.
He has worked extensively with Gecko – collaborating with the company for over ten years. Lighting design for the company includes Kin, A Little Space, The Dreamer, The Time of Your Life (for a televised performance on the BBC), Institute and Missing. Chris has also worked as a production manager at various points on The Overcoat, Missing, and Institute.
Other lighting designs include: 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', 'Our Country's Good', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Beautiful Thing', and ‘Blue Heart’ for Tobacco Factory Theatres in Bristol, ‘We Can Time Travel’ for gig-theatre maker Dom Coyote, 'Oz', ‘Flies’, and ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ for Pins and Needles, 'Cutting Out' for artist and activist Viv Gordon, and designs for various contemporary dance companies including: New Movement Collective, Fertile Ground, Renaud Wiser Dance, Sophie Nuzel Dance, and TrashDollys.
Chris has toured widely as a production manager and re-lighter both nationally and internationally - working in China, the USA, Mexico, Colombia, Russia and throughout Europe.
Chris also is a visiting lecturer at Bristol Old Vic Theatre school, where he works with the students on their own lighting designs, supervises technical workshops and fit-ups, and provides lighting design for the school's own productions.
Shows
Kin | A Little Space | The Wedding | The Dreamer | The Time of Your Life | Institute | Missing | The Overcoat