JAMES WHITESIDE
Lighting Designer
Graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1999.
Theatre credits include: HOLDING THE MAN, THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES, NEVER FORGET, FOOTLOOSE and CALAMITY JANE in the West End; THE SNOW QUEEN, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS, FUNNY GIRL and WALLENSTEIN at Chichester Festival Theatre; A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER at Salisbury Playhouse; A CHRISTMAS CAROL, ARCADIA, GRIMM TALES, GATES OF GOLD at the Library Theatre, Manchester; LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST and GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU at the Rose, Kingston; SALONIKA at West Yorkshire Playhouse; THE ABSENCE OF WOMEN at the Lyric, Belfast; METROPOLIS and ANIMAL FARM for the Peter Hall Company, Bath; TRANSPARENCY, THIS PIECE OF EARTH and THE EARLY BIRD for Ransom Productions, Belfast; PLUNDER and COPENHAGEN at the Watermill; VANITY FAIR, GRIMM NIGHTS AND EVERAFTER DAYS and ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND for Chicken Shed Theatre; JUMP and POOR MRS PEPYS at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme; FEN and FIVE KINDS OF SILENCE at Live Theatre, Newcastle; and UK tours of DONKEY’S YEARS, HEROES and ART.
In a long association with Tall Stories Theatre Company productions include: ROOM ON THE BROOM in the West End and on tour; THE GRUFFALO in the West End and Off-Broadway; SNOW WHITE Off- Broadway; and THE GRUFFALO’S CHILD in the West End and on tour.
Also productions for the Croydon Warehouse, BAC, King’s Head, New End and Chelsea Theatres in London and for Princess Cruises on ships worldwide.
Work in opera includes: MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES at Theatre Royal, Bath; HMS PINAFORE for Carl Rosa Opera and MADAMA BUTTERFLY on a US tour for London City Opera.
As Assistant Lighting Designer: MARY STUART, GUYS AND DOLLS, MARY POPPINS and DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN in the West End, as well as relighting the Donmar’s GUYS AND DOLLS on tour and in Australia and THIS IS HOW IT GOES on tour and The Royal Opera’s I MASNADIERI at the Teatro Comunale, Bologna.
