Paul J Need  - Photography & Lighting Design

It’s all about - the Light!

C.V.

1989-

Managing Director 10outof10 Productions Ltd

1988-1989

Sadlers Wells Opera

Chief Electrician

1986-1988

R.A.D.A

Lighting Tutor

1980-

Freelance Lighting Designer/Production Electrician

A Selection of Opera Credits

A Selection of Theatre Credits

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Company

Production

Director

 

Company

Director

Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cosi Fan Tutte

RSAMD

Ashley Dean

 

Pygmalion

Theatr Clywd

Michael McCaffrey

Le nozze di Figaro

Surrey Opera

Ashley Dean

 

La Dispute

Theatr Preau, Normandy

Eric De Dadelsen

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Minatuar Opera

Stuart Barker

 

Fallujah

World Premier

Jonathan Holmes

The Four Note Opera

East End Opera

Shirley Keane

 

Diving Through Time

Tilbury Fort

Philip Parr

Turandot

Dorset Opera

William Relton

 

Mother Goose

Chipping Norton Theatre

Caroline Sharman

Cosi Fan Tutte

Minataur Opera

Stuart Barker

 

Back To Front

Gardener Arts Centre

Mike Carter

Rigeletto

Mid Wales Opera

Christopher Newell

 

Viewing The Instruments

UK Tour

Philip Parr

Un ballo in maschera

Surrey Opera

William Relton

 

The Mystery’s

Civic Chelmsford

Caroline Sharman

Orpheus in the Underworld

Mid Wales Opera

Christopher Newell

 

Sinbad

Chipping Norton Theatre

Caroline Sharman

La Boheme

Mid Wales Opera

Julia Hollander

 

Short Change

Liverpool Playhouse/Royal Court

Tim Fywell

 

Dido & Aeneas

London Festival Orch.

Caroline Sharman

 

Wicked

Cleam Break Theatre Co.

Joan Ann Maynard

 

Don Giovanni

Pimlico Opera

Stephen Langridge

 

Boys Mean Business

Bush Theatre Co.

Brian Stirner

Un Giorno de Regno

Bloombury Opera

Terry John Bates

 

Hopeful Monsters

RADA

Nona Sheppard

La Piazza Senile

Modern Music Theatre Troupe

Christopher Newell

 

Lessons in Social Skills

Tour

Yolande Snaith

New Pasts

Modern Music Theatre Troupe

Christopher Newell

 

The Triumph of Love

King’s Head

Guy Callum

Pillow Songs

MMTT (Purcell)

Caroline Pope

 

Breaking the Frame

Ectetera Theatre Co.

Cathy Pogson

L’elisir D’amore

Mid Wales Opera

John Ramster

 

The Changeling

Edinburgh Festival

Michael Batz

L’elisir D’amore

Music Theatre Kernow

 

 

Comedy without Title

Edinburgh Festival

Michael Batz

Le nozze di Figaro

Armonico Consort

Michael McCaffrey

 

The Boxer

Edinburgh Festival

Giles Crofy

Semele

British Youth Opera

Annilese Miskimmon

 

Obscene Fables

Edinburgh Festival

Justin Gregson

The Cunning Little Vixen

British Youth Opera

Stephen Metcalf

 

Apololyptic Butterflies

Greenwich Theatre

Sue Dunderdale

Fiddler on the Roof

Surrey Opera

Jonathan Butcher

 

Macbeth

Gardener Arts Centre

Mike Carter

The Wasteland

Donmar Warehouse

Caroline Sharman

 

A Christmas Carol

Earwig Productions

Mike Carter

Hérodiade

Dorset Opera

William Relton

 

Alice in Wonderland

Earwig Productions

Christopher Newell

La Boheme

Scottish Opera

Caroline Sharman

 

The Jungle Book

Earwig Productions

Mike Carter

Falstaff

New Sussex Opera

Michael Moxham

 

Pinnochio

Earwig Productions

Mike Carter

Macbeth

Surrey Opera

Peter Knapp

 

Oh Rats!

Earwig Productions

Mike Carter

The Bartered Bride

Birmingham Conservatoire

Christopher Newell

 

The Pilgrim’s Progress

Earwig Productions

Mike Carter

The Rake's Progress

Birmingham Conservatoire

Christopher Newell

 

One Voice

Earwig Productions

Mike Carter

Falstaff

Surrey Opera

Stephen Metcalf

 

Mr. Fox

MCN Productions

Christopher Newell

Dido & Aeneas

British Council Syria

Caroline Sharman

 

Enlightened

Chipping Norton Theatre

Caroline Sharman

Pillow Song

Purcell Rooms

Christopher Newell

 

Robin of Wychwood

Chipping Norton Theatre

Caroline Sharman

Dialogues of the Carmelites

Snape Maltings

Philip Parr

 

Truth

Leicester Haymarket

Nona Sheppard

Tosca

Opera Lirica (Holland Park)

Philip Parr

 

Gregorys Girl

Library Theatre, Manchester

Maria Miskovski

Faust

New Sussex Opera

Stephen Metcalf

 

The Holderness Saga’s

Civic Hull

Philip Parr

The Rape of Lucrecia

Snape Maltings

Christopher Newell

 

Wakling on the Sun

Rotherham Millenium Project

Philip Parr

I was looking at the Ceiling.....and saw the sky.

Southwalk Playhouse/ ROH

Caroline Sharman

 

Brighter than The Moon

African Women’s Forum

Philip Parr

Carmen

Opera East

Christopher Newell

 

One Fine Day

Edinburgh Festival

John Lordoff

Dido and Aeneas

Delphi, Greece

Caroline Sharman

 

Breaker and Jugg

Edinburgh Festival

John Ladle

Madam Butterfly

Crystal Clear Opera

John Hawkes

 

 

 

 

Tosca

Opera East

Jonathan Church

 

 

 

 

 

Tosca

Crystal Clear Opera

John Hawkes

 

 

 

 

Giavanna d’Arco

Bloomsbury Opera

Julia Hollander

 

 

 

 

Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci

Guildford Opera

Stuart Barker

 

 

 

 

Carmen

Guildford Opera

Philip Parr

 

 

 

 

Die Zauberflöte

Surrey Opera

Philip Parr

 

 

 

 

Die Zauberflöte

Opera Viva

Stephen Metcalf

 

 

 

 

Dialogues of the Carmelites

Opera Viva

Stephen Metcalf

 

 

 

 

La clemenza di Tito

Bloombury Opera

Patrick Young

 

 

 

 

Dido and Aeneas

Opera Viva

Stephen Metcalf

 

 

 

 

Le nozze di Figaro

Travelling Opera

Peter Knapp

 

 

 

 

Cosi Fan Tutte

Travelling Opera

Peter Knapp

 

 

 

 

La Boheme

Travelling Opera

Peter Knapp

 

 

 

 

Rigeletto

Travelling Opera

Peter Knapp

 

 

 

 

La Traviata

Travelling Opera

Peter Knapp

 

 

 

 

Don Giovanni

Travelling Opera

Peter Knapp

 

 

 

 

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Travelling Opera

Peter Knapp

 

 

 

 

Die Zauberflöte

Travelling Opera

Peter Knapp

 

 

 

 

Don Pasquale

Travelling Opera

Peter Knapp

 

 

 

 

Carmen

Travelling Opera

Peter Knapp

 

 

 

 

 

Tales of Hoffman

Mid Wales Opera

Christopher Newell