Claire Childs
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Credits
| Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 |
Lighting Designer
Dance |
A Matter of Time Chantry Dance Company |
Guildhall Theatre, Grantham |
| 2023 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Anoush Seta White / London Armenian Opera |
Marylebone Theatre |
| 2023 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Ghost Dances Chantry Dance Company |
Guildhall Arts Centre |
| 2023 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Tales from a Thousand and One Nights Eliot Giuralarocca / Dragonboy Productions |
UK tour |
| 2022 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Snowsmith Peter Morton / Half a String |
Ware Drill Hall |
| 2022 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Days in Quarantine Jules Chan |
White Bear Theatre |
| 2022 |
Re-Lighting Designer
Dance |
To Varnam With Love Divya Kasturi |
Trestle Theatre, Rich Mix, Arts Depot |
| 2022 |
Lighting Designer
Dance |
Beauty and the Beast Chantry Dance Company |
Guildhall Arts Centre and UK tour |
| 2022 |
Lighting Designer
Music & Singing |
London Sinfonietta: Then & Now London Sinfonietta |
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre |
| 2021 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Under the Frozen Moon Half a String |
Southern Maltings |
| 2021 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Humane Imy Wyatt Corner / True Name Theatre |
Pleasance Downstairs |
| 2021 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Little Mermaid Chantry Dance Company |
Guildhall Arts Centre, Grantham and UK tour |
| 2021 |
Lighting Designer
Music & Singing |
As One Benjamin Davis / Lontano |
The Warehouse, Waterloo |
| 2020 |
Relighter
Theatre |
Amsterdam Actors Touring Company |
Theatre Royal Plymouth |
| 2020 |
Lighting Designer
Music & Singing |
Iolanthe John Savournin / Charles Court Opera |
Kings Head Theatre |
| 2020 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Chantry Gala Chantry Dance Company |
Guildhall Theatre Grantham |
| 2020 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Revenge Louise Jameson / Crime & Comedy Theatre Company |
Greenwich Theatre and UK tour |
| 2020 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
PUSH Scarlett Plouviez / Popelei |
Network Theatre and UK tour |
| 2020 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Under the Frozen Moon Peter Morton / Half a String |
Marlowe Theatre and UK tour |
| 2019 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
To Varnam With Love Divya Kasturi |
Key Theatre |
| 2019 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Zaryab Seta White / Toos Foundation |
Logan Hall |
| 2019 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Alice - Wonderland Through the Looking Glass Chantry Dance Company |
UK tour |
| 2019 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
100 Years Scarlett Plouviez / Popelei Theatre |
Arcola Theatre |
| 2019 |
Relighter
Music & Singing |
Music of the Spheres Aurora Orchestra |
Queen Elizabeth Hall |
| 2019 |
Lighting Associate
Theatre |
Keep On Walking Federico Alice Malin / Actors Touring Company |
Traverse Theatre, Theatre Royal Bath, Tobacco Factory Theatres, North Wall Arts Centre, L'Altre Festival Barcelona |
| 2019 |
Lighting Designer
Music & Singing |
Kaj Nazar (Nazar the Brave) Seta White / London Armenian Opera |
Bishop Centre |
| 2019 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Boulder Peter Morton / Half a String |
Marlowe Theatre Studio and Pleasance Edinburgh |
| 2019 |
Lighting Designer
Music & Singing |
Imoinda Barbara Poll / Lontano |
The Warehouse |
| 2019 |
Lighting Designer
Music & Singing |
Robin Hood Polly Graham / The Opera Story |
CLF Art Cafe |
| 2019 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four Nick Lane / Blackeyed Theatre |
UK/The Netherlands/China tour |
| 2018 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Rudolf Anna Girvan / Pins and Needles Productions |
Midlands Arts Centre |
| 2018 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Invisible Me Shelley Knowles-Dixon / House of Stray Cats |
Little Angel Theatre |
| 2018 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Dracula - Welcome to D's Chantry Dance Company |
UK tour |
| 2018 |
Lighting Designer
Music & Singing |
1000 Songs (Mosaic Platform 2) Seta White / Mosaic/Myaseen/Pinch Punch |
Arcola Theatre |
| 2018 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Lucky Stiff Julian Hirst / BB Theatre Productions |
The Other Palace/South Hill Park Arts Centre/Paradise Greenside |
| 2018 |
Lighting Technician
Theatre |
Beautiful Thing Bradley Hemmings and Robby Graham / Greenwich+Docklands International Festival |
Binsey Walk, Thamesmead |
| 2018 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Nick Lane / Blackeyed Theatre |
UK tour |
| 2017 |
Relighter
Theatre |
Jungle Book Poppy Burton-Morgan / Metta Theatre |
Birmingham Hippodrome, Bristol Old Vic and London Wonderground |
| 2017 |
Lighting Designer/Technician
Music & Singing |
Tete A Tete Tete A Tete |
Rada Studios |
| 2017 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
I AM BEAST Shelley Knowles-Dixon / Sparkle and Dark |
Pleasance Courtyard and UK tour |
| 2017 |
Lighting Technician (Cover)
Theatre |
The Winter's Tale Declan Donnellan / Cheek By Jowl |
Teatro Arriaga |
| 2017 |
Lighting Designer
Music & Singing |
Mozart vs Machine Frederic Wake-Walker / Mahogany Opera Group |
Quarterhouse, Folkestone |
| 2017 |
CSM/Relighter
Theatre |
Frankenstein Eliot Giuralarocca / Blackeyed Theatre |
UK tour |
| 2016 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Tempest Nicky Diss and Thomas Judd / Thick as Thieves |
UK tour |
| 2016 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Fanatical Lotte Wakeham / Mountview |
Karamel Club |
| 2016 |
Relighter
Theatre |
The Great Gatsby Eliot Giuralarocca / Blackeyed Theatre |
UK tour |
| 2015 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Mignon Harry Fehr / New Sussex Opera |
Lewes Town Hall, Devonshire Park Theatre and Cadogan Hall |
| 2015 |
Company Stage Manager
Theatre |
Minerva Scientifica: Bugs, Bones & DNA Frances M Lynch / electric voice theatre |
Chapel, King's College London |
| 2015 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Leader Of The Pack Gerald Armin / Waterloo East Theatre |
Waterloo East Theatre |
| 2015 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Forgot Your Password Divya Kasturi |
Watford Palace Theatre, Key Theatre Peterborough, The Place and Harlow Playhouse |
| 2014 |
Lighting Technician (Cover)
Theatre |
'Tis Pity She's a Whore Declan Donnellan / Cheek By Jowl |
Barbican |
| 2014 |
CSM/Relighter
Theatre |
Not About Heroes Eliot Giuralarocca / Blackeyed Theatre |
UK tour |
| 2014 |
Lighting Technician
Theatre |
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, King's Cross Tête à Tête |
Central St Martins |
| 2014 |
Lighting Designer
Event |
London Film and Comic Con (Superstage) Showmasters |
Earls Court |
| 2014 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Shipwrecked House Penned in the Margins |
UK tour |
| 2014 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Forgot Your Password (Choreogata and First Light) Akademi |
Purcell Room |
| 2014 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Killing Roger Sparkle and Dark |
Little Angel Theatre and UK tour |
| 2014 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Just So Stories Red Table Theatre |
LOST Theatre and UK tour |
| 2013 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Picasso is Coming... Ce Soir PD Productions |
St James Studio |
| 2013 |
Lighting Designer and Technician
Theatre |
A Midsummer Night's Dream Cornucopia Theatre |
Glamis Adventure Playground |
| 2013 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Barrier Earwig Arts |
Park Theatre |
| 2013 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
NowHere Divya Kasturi |
UK Tour |
| 2013 |
Associate Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Comedy of Oedipus El-Alfy Theatre Company |
Lion & Unicorn Theatre |
| 2013 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Venus/Mars act up |
Bush Theatre, Old Red Lion Theatre |
| 2013 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Boy in Darkness Blue Elephant Theatre |
Blue Elephant Theatre |
| 2013 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Blavatsky's Tower Behind the Eye Theatre |
Barons Court Theatre |
| 2013 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Blood, Guts & Gore Victorian Emporium Theatre |
Fairfield Halls |
| 2013 |
Lighting Designer
Event |
The Tiger's Bride The Tiger's Bride |
St Leonard's Church |
| 2013 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Cinespace Presents 'Mars Attacks!' The Space |
The Space |
| 2013 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Girl With No Heart Sparkle and Dark's Travelling Players |
Bedlam Theatre and UK Tour |
| 2012 |
DSM
Theatre |
Jack and the Beanstalk South Hill Park Arts Centre |
South Hill Park Arts Centre |
| 2012 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
How Hatter Went Mad Stand Sure Theatre |
Cockpit Theatre |
| 2012 |
DSM/relighter
Theatre |
Baroque Around the Block Armonico Consort |
Bridge House Theatre, Octagon Theatre |
| 2012 |
Lighting/Sound Technician
Theatre |
Visiting Time Unfit Productions |
Gilded Balloon |
| 2012 |
Relighter
Theatre |
Too Hot To Handel Armonico Consort |
Buxton Opera House, Lichfield Garrick, Pleasance Theatre, Malvern Theatres |
| 2012 |
Lighting/Sound Technician
Theatre |
Olivia Twisted Chickenshed |
Chelsea Academy |
| 2012 |
Lighting Technician
Event |
We Were Evergreen We Were Evergreen |
Bush Hall |
| 2012 |
Company Stage Manager
Theatre |
The Beekeeper Blackeyed Theatre |
Waterloo East Theatre |
| 2012 |
Technical Company Stage Manager
Theatre |
The Trial Blackeyed Theatre |
UK Tour |
| 2011 |
Lighting Designer
Event |
Concert in Aid of Baby Loss Awareness Babyloss |
Leicester Square Theatre |
| 2011 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
It Started With a Touch Roger Goldsmith |
New Wimbledon Theatre, Baron's Court Theatre |
| 2011 |
Lighting/Sound/AV Technician
Theatre |
Zeus' Pamphlet Zeus' Pamphlet |
Underbelly, Edinburgh; Leicester Square Theatre |
| 2011 |
Sound Technician
Theatre |
Thomas Hardie & Co. Thomas Hardie |
Ryan's Cellar Bar |
| 2011 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
New Writers' Showcase Kids Company |
National Theatre Studio |
| 2011 |
Assistant Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Prostitutes Marry in May Play on Words Theatre |
Waterloo East Theatre |
| 2011 |
Lighting/Sound Technician
Theatre |
Tom Crean - Antarctic Explorer Fairbank Productions / Play on Words Theatre |
Waterloo East Theatre |
| 2011 |
Lighting/Sound Technician
Theatre |
47 Roses Lane Productions |
Waterloo East Theatre |
| 2011 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Mervyn Peake 1911-1968: Centenary Celebrations Blue Elephant Theatre |
Blue Elephant Theatre |
| 2011 |
Company Manager
Theatre |
Godspell Union Theatre |
Union Theatre |
| 2011 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Blue Fence Bendrix Theatre |
Pleasance |
| 2011 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Bender/Laundry/Tatchell/ShortStuff Equinox Drama Productions |
Waterloo East Theatre |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
City of Peace Shano Kurdish Arts Project |
POSK |
| 2010 |
Lighting Technician
Theatre |
On the 20th Century shortshrift |
Union Theatre |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Cliched / Mind the Gap Sebastian Rex Dance Group / Acting Like Mad |
Blue Elephant Theatre |
| 2010 |
Relighter
Theatre |
Hugh the Drover New Sussex Opera |
Connaught Theatre, Devonshire Park Theatre, Lewes Town Hall |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Devil is an Ass Spartan Dogs |
White Bear Theatre |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
The Cave Blue Elephant Theatre |
Blue Elephant Theatre |
| 2010 |
Production Electrician
Theatre |
Departure Lounge Perfect Pitch |
Waterloo East Theatre |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Spare Acting Like Mad |
New Diorama Theatre |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer/Operator
Theatre |
Fourplay Spilt Milk Theatre |
Hen and Chickens Theatre |
| 2010 |
Lighting Technician
Theatre |
Medea, the Foreigner Patricia Carreira / Nicole Pschetz |
Bridewell Theatre |
| 2010 |
Assistant Lighting Designer
Theatre |
La Boheme Opera Up Close |
Soho Theatre |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer / Technician
Theatre |
Best of Festivals 2010 Theatre 6 |
Waterloo East Theatre |
| 2010 |
Technician
Theatre |
Confessions of a Dancewhore Michael Twaits |
Trafalgar Studios |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
An Arrangement of Shoes Footnote Theatre |
Cock Tavern Theatre / Theatre 503 |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer/Operator
Theatre |
Beyond Therapy Theatre 6 |
Hen and Chickens Theatre |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Naughty! Sebastian Rex Dance Group./ Acting Like Mad |
Blue Elephant Theatre |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Magnyfycence Thynke Byggly Productions |
Hampton Court Palace |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer/Operator
Theatre |
Never Any Fruit Blossom Tree Productions |
Pleasance |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer/Operator
Theatre |
The Double Theatre 6 |
White Bear Theatre |
| 2010 |
Relighter
Theatre |
1968: The Year That Never Ended renaissance one |
Barbican |
| 2010 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
A Yorkshire Tragedy Tough Theatre |
White Bear Theatre |
| 2009 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Family, Life, Death and Everything In Between FAITH Drama Productions |
Oxford House |
| 2009 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
ID:09 Identity Drama School |
Oval House Theatre |
| 2009 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Storm Identity Drama School |
Drill Hall |
| 2009 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Secrets Flexible Productions |
Cock Tavern Theatre |
| 2009 |
Lighting Technician
Theatre |
Hall 19;29 |
Hornsey Town Hall |
| 2009 |
Lighting and Sound Operator
Theatre |
Love Bites Love Bites |
Calder Bookshop Theatre |
| 2009 |
Lighting/Sound/AV Technician
Event |
The History Girls The History Girls |
The Albany, Great Portland St |
| 2009 |
Assistant Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Crazy For You Eyebrow Productions |
London Palladium |
| 2009 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Henry V OUDS/Thelma Holt Tour |
Trafalgar Studios; Rustaveli Theatre, Georgia |
| 2009 |
Lighting Assistant
Event |
London Liming Southbank Centre |
Royal Festival Hall |
| 2009 |
Co-Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Amadeus Green Bear Productions |
Northwall Arts Centre |
| 2009 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Cuba Oxford Playhouse |
Burton Taylor Studio |
| 2009 |
Onstage Electrician
Theatre |
Sleeping Beauty Oxford Playhouse |
Oxford Playhouse |
| 2008 |
Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Romeo and Juliet OUDS/Thelma Holt Tour |
Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Space |
| 2008 |
Followspot Operator
Theatre |
Aladdin Oxford Playhouse |
Oxford Playhouse |
| 2007 |
Lighting Technician
Theatre |
One for the Road False Teeth |
Tabard Theatre |
| 2007 |
Production Manager and Lighting Designer
Theatre |
Angels in America |
Oxford Union |
| 2007 |
Production Manager
Theatre |
Under Milk Wood |
C Venues |
Education
| Year | Qualification | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Mathematics | Oxford University |
Equipment
My Equipment/Kit:
I can use:
About me
I am a freelance lighting designer based in London. I have designed for a wide variety of productions, including theatre, dance, opera and musicals, across a range of venues from studios to opera houses, as well as site specific pieces.I am a quick programmer on most widely used lighting consoles and can also read music.
I am a member of the Association of Lighting Designers and of Equity.
See my website www.clairechilds.co.uk
Referees:
available on request
License & Passport
| Driver's License: | Yes |
Skills
| Secondary Job Title | Lighting Technician |
|---|---|
| Job Titles | Lighting Tech / Operator, Lighting Designer |
| Years in industry | 6+ years |
| Organisations / Memberships | ABTT (UK), ALD (UK), Equity (UK) |
| Work Permits | EU |