Lighting Designer

Simon
Bennison

British lighting designer Simon Bennison is from Manchester and has trained in lighting, architecture, and music at UCL, Surrey, Yale, RADA, and Salford and was Lighting Associate for the Royal Opera House until 2022. Recent designs include Anemoi and The Winter’s Tale (The Royal Ballet), Inferno: Pilgrim/The Dante Project (The Royal Ballet & The Danish Royal Ballet), Woolf Works (American Ballet Theatre), Shades Through a Shade and The Realistic Joneses (Gare St Lazare Ireland), Die Zauberflöte (Sofia Opera and Ballet), and Carlos at 50 (Royal Opera House). Scenes from an Execution (Dundee Repertory Theatre) and In a Minor Key (Mikhailovsky Ballet), were both nominated for best lighting awards. Scherzo and Anemoi each received best new dance piece awards from the South Bank Sky Arts Awards and Critics' Circle National Dance Awards in 2021 and The Dante Project won best dance work in 2022.