David Howe

Past Productions

West End lighting design credits include: Rent (Duke of York’s); Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (Haymarket Theatre); Pageant (Vaudeville Theatre); Forbidden Broadway (Albery Theatre); The Vivian Ellis Awards (London Palladium); La Cage Aux Folles, Take Flight and The Last Five Years (Menier Chocolate Factory); and Rags (Bridewell Theatre). Broadway credits include: Primo (Music Box Theatre); recreation of the original National Theatre design. 2006 Tony Award nomination for Oustanding Theatrical Event.
Current UK tours of: Fiddler On The Roof, South Pacific, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers and Disney’s Beauty And The Beast. Previously: 42nd Street, Me And My Girl, Carousel and The Demon Headmaster. Additional credits: Primo (Hampstead Theatre); Big Love (Gate Theatre); Corpse (Salisbury Playhouse); The Turn Of The Screw (Playhouse Sevenoaks); Italian Straw Hat and Orestes 2.0 (Guildhall School of Music and Drama). Pantomimes around the UK.
International design work: Chicago (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); Woyzeck (New York); Cabaret (English Speaking Theatre Frankfurt); Stars Of The Musicals (Malaysia); Sunset Boulevard (Cork Opera House); Who Shot The Sheriff and Dracula (Tivoli, Copenhagen); Jesus Christ Superstar (tour of Sweden) and many other productions in Europe.
Opera includes: Eugene Onegin (Scottish Opera and RSAMD); Magic Flute and Albert Herring (Peacock Theatre) for British Youth Opera and La Serva Padrona (Royal Opera House).
As Associate Lighting Designer: The Lord Of The Rings (West End and Toronto); The Woman In White (West End and Broadway); Hamlet (Old Vic); Humble Boy (West End and UK tour); Into The Woods (Donmar Warehouse); Alarms And Excursions (UK tour and West End); Nine (Donmar Warehouse and Teatro de Blanco, Buenos Aries); Electra (UK tour and Donmar Warehouse); the National Theatre’s Carousel (West End, and Japanese and USA tours).