Venus Raven
- Director
- Lighting Designer
London
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Credits
| Year | Role / Type | Name of Production / Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Crew Event | Royal Albert Hall |
| 2019 | Technical Operator Theatre | Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope Linda Marlowe |
| 2019 | Lighting Designer & Technical Operator Theatre | Hutch |
| 2019 | Technical Operator Theatre | Eastendless Mike Bradwell |
| 2019 | Lighting Designer & Technical Operator Theatre | Borderlands |
| 2019 | Lighting Designer & Technical Operator Theatre | Absalom vs Absalom |
| 2019 | Technical Operator Theatre | Testament of Yootha Mark Farrelly |
| 2019 | Camera Operator Music | Elysium |
| 2019 | House Technician & Technical Operator Theatre | Camden Fringe Festival |
| 2019 | Director & Performer Event | Zara DuRose Cabaret of Excess |
| 2019 | Stage Manager Event | Glastonbury Festival |
| 2019 | Director & Performer Event | Monster Queen // The Midsummer Ball |
| 2019 | Director & Performer Event | Torture Garden July Ball |
| 2019 | Artistic Director Event | London Fetish Film Festival Year 1 |
| 2019 | Director & Performer Event | Milk Of The Masses |
| 2019 | DSM Theatre | An Enemy of The People |
| 2019 | Technical Support Theatre | Me And My Whale |
| 2019 | Lighting Assistant Theatre | Hell Yes I'm Tough Enough |
| 2019 | Director & Performer Event | Fox & Badge Religion |
| 2019 | Stage Manager, Lighting Designer & Technical Operator Theatre | Tales From Star City |
| 2019 | Lighting Designer & Technical Operator Theatre | The Willy Widow |
| 2019 | Director & Performer Event | Torture Garden Ocular Love |
| 2019 | Lighting Designer, SM & Technical Operator Theatre | The First Modern Man |
| 2019 | Director & Performer Event | Zara DuRose |
| 2019 | House Technician & Technical Operator Theatre | Chapel Playhouse Launch |
| 2019 | Technician Theatre | Hearing Things |
| 2019 | Box Office Manager Theatre | Unrestricted View |
| 2019 | Stage Manager & Technical Operator Theatre | Aisha AJ |
| 2018 - 2019 | Casual Crew Event | Royal Albert Hall |
| 2018 | Technical Operator Theatre | Aisha AJ |
| 2018 | Stage Manager Theatre | Darts Wives |
| 2018 | Stage Manager Theatre | Darts Wives |
| 2018 | Stage Manager Theatre | Darts Wives |
| 2018 | Stage Manager Event | The Cheek of It! Winter Burlesque and Cabaret Show |
| 2018 | Director & Performer Event | Halber Mensch for "Club Antichrist" Venus Raven |
| 2018 | Director & Performer Event | Medusa for "Reptile Club London" Venus Raven |
| 2018 | Director & Performer Event | Night of the Spirits <> Spirits of the Night Venus Raven |
| 2018 | Director & Performer Event | The Raven for "Once Upon a Darkness" Venus Raven |
| 2018 | Stage Manager & Lighting Designer Theatre | The Giant Killers Andrew Loudon |
| 2018 | Stage Manager & Lighting Designer Tour | The Giant Killers Andrew Loudon |
| 2018 | Stage Manager & Lighting Designer Tour | The Giant Killers Andrew Loudon |
| 2018 | Stage Manager & Lighting Designer Tour | The Giant Killers Andrew Loudon |
| 2018 | Stage Manager & Lighting Designer Tour | The Giant Killers Andrew Loudon |
| 2018 | Stage Manager & Lighting Designer Tour | The Giant Killers Andrew Loudon |
| 2018 | Stage Manager & Lighting Designer Tour | The Giant Killers Andrew Loudon |
| 2018 | Stage Manager & Lighting Designer Tour | The Giant Killers Andrew Loudon |
| 2018 | Stage Manager & Lighting Designer Tour | The Giant Killers Andrew Loudon |
| 2018 | Stage Manager & Lighting Designer Tour | The Giant Killers Andrew Loudon |
| 2018 | Technical Operator Theatre | Me and My Whale |
| 2018 | Director & Performer Event | CMB |
| 2018 | Performer and co-director Film | “Les Soeurs et les Pécheurs” Farrukh Hyder |
| 2018 | Box Office Manager Theatre | Camden Fringe Festival |
| 2018 | Stage Manager Event | The Cheek of It! Summer Burlesque and Cabaret Show |
| 2018 | Director & Performer Event | Halber Mensch (For "Psycho Ward") Venus Raven |
| 2018 | Stage Manager & Technical Operator Theatre | Moormaid |
| 2018 | Director, Performer & Sound Designer Event | "Seven Veils" (Part of C O V E N: The Black Lodge) |
| 2018 | Director & Performer Event | Mansion Bizarre: New Years Eve Masquerade |
| 2017 | Director & Performer Event | Surgery Slave |
| 2017 | Performer Film | Ensnaring Embers / Dance of the Succubi Farrukh Hyder |
| 2017 | Stage Manager & Lighting Designer Theatre | The Wily Widow |
| 2017 | Technical Operator Film | Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival |
| 2017 | Director & Performer Event | Ave Maria |
| 2017 | Technical Operator Theatre | 6 into 60 |
| 2017 | Performer Event | My Shadow (For Panic Sermons / Modern Panic VIII) |
| 2017 | Lighting Designer and Technical Operator Theatre | Transmuter |
| 2017 | Director & Performer Event | Great Again (For Thicker than Blood) |
| 2017 | Stage Manager Theatre | Constance and Eva |
| 2017 | Director, Performer & Sound Designer Event | "Doppelgänger" for MADD Cabaret Venus Raven |
| 2017 | Stage Manager Event | Gersch & Rox Presents Cabaret At The Curtain |
| 2017 | Stage Manager Event | Bread & Roses at Glastonbury |
| 2017 | Stage Manager Theatre | Jane Eyre the Musical |
| 2017 | Director & Performer Event | The Necromancer (Part of C O V E N: Diamond Underdogs) Venus Raven |
| 2017 | Director & Performer Event | Ich Will Venus Raven |
| 2017 | Lighting Designer & Technical Operator Theatre | Aisha |
| 2017 | Stage Manager & Technical Operator & FOH Theatre | King Lear Victor Sobchak |
| 2017 | Director, Performer & Sound Designer Event | Divinum Ignem (For Torture Garden May Ball) Venus Raven |
| 2017 | Lighting Designer & Technical Operator Theatre | Macbeth Amy Clayton |
| 2017 | Technical Operator Theatre | Voices from Chernobyl |
| 2017 | Director, Performer & Sound Designer Event | "Divinum Ignem" (Part of C O V E N: Reincarnation) |
| 2017 | Technical Operator Theatre | Jack and the Beanstalk Jonathan Kaufman |
| 2017 | Technical Operator Theatre | V-day 2017: The Vagina Monologues & The Vagina Variety! A Benefit Show for Refuge |
| 2016 | Performer Event | GARABATO /// WKN /// MMXV Garabato & Working Klass Noize |
| 2016 | Stage Manager & Technical Operator Theatre | Another Night Before Christmas |
| 2016 | Performer / Co-Director Event | Exit Wound Symphony for Torture Garden Halloween |
| 2016 | Stage Manger Theatre | The Gog / Magog Project Adam Brummitt |
| 2016 | Crew Theatre | London Horror Festival: Burlesque in Underland Halloween |
| 2016 | Crew Event | Draw Aboard with Art Macabre: Cutty Sark Sketching Takeover |
| 2016 | Performer / Co-Director Event | Exit Wound Symphony |
| 2016 | Performer Event | Psycho Ward |
| 2016 | Director Theatre | Han the Musical Venus Raven |
| 2016 | Technical Operator Theatre | Thelma and Louise - and Karen Georgina Tremayne |
| 2016 | Stage Manager Theatre | Michael Healey's "Proud" Jonny Kelly |
| 2016 | ASM Theatre | Hotel Black Cat Laura Corcoran |
| 2016 | ASM / Followspot Operator Theatre | Hotel Black Cat Laura Corcoran |
| 2016 | Series Consultant Television / TV | Kinksters |
| 2016 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | The Upbringing Nelson Brett |
| 2016 | Stage Manager Event | Black Cat Cabaret's Valentine's |
| 2016 | Technical Operator Event | Goodtime CabHooray! Presents MAMA'S GIRLS: THE LAUNCH |
| 2015 | Series Consultant Television / TV | Kinksters Andrew Gillman |
| 2015 | Performer Event | XE. The Human Currency Converter (part of Modern Panic VI) MisSa Blue |
| 2015 | Stage Manager Event | The Haunting of Scarfes Bar |
| 2015 | Director / Performer Theatre | Eros Autopsy (part of Horror Cabaret - London Horror Festival 2015) |
| 2015 | Technical Manager Theatre | Camden Fringe Festival |
| 2015 | Lighting Designer Theatre | William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night or What You Will |
| 2015 | Technical Operator Theatre | Like a Chemist from Canada (by Lewis Owens) |
| 2015 | Technical Operator Theatre | Like a Chemist from Canada (by Lewis Owens) |
| 2015 | Director / Performer Event | Purgatory Flesh |
| 2015 | Technical Operator Theatre | The Wonderful World of Lieven Scheire |
| 2015 | Technical Operator Theatre | Cracking Up 2 |
| 2015 | Technical Operator Education | Terry Burn's "Plain English" |
| 2015 | Lighting Designer Music | "Maiuko & Guests" |
| 2015 | Stage Manager Theatre | Highlights Variety Show |
| 2015 | Lighting Designer Exhibition | Centina & Servadio Exhibition |
| 2015 | Stage Manager / Duty Technician Theatre Theatre | Black Cat Cabaret |
| 2015 | Stage Manager Theatre | Superman the Musical |
| 2014 | Performer Event | Project Alpha Omega Alpha: Act II Venus Raven |
| 2014 | Stage Manager / Duty Technician Theatre | Black Cat Cabaret |
| 2014 | Director / Performer Event | "Eros Autopsy" for Panic Sermons/Modern Panic V |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | Matt Osman's "Marco Polo?" |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | Jamie Christian's "A Fight at the Opera" |
| 2014 | Lighting Designer / Performer Event | Lauren Jane Williams's "The Queen's Boudoir" |
| 2014 | Lighting Technician / Designer Event | Dragon Cafe / Mental Fight Club |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | "The Proposal / To be a Wife - Two same-sex marriage comedies" |
| 2014 | Director / Performer Theatre | Eros Autopsy |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | Camden Fringe Festival |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | Eliza Power's "Darker the Night" |
| 2014 | Lighting Designer & Technical Operator Theatre | Nick Brown's "A Sister for the Moon" |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | The Grandees: Baboom! Edinburgh Preview |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | "Al Donegan: The Five Worst Things I Ever Did" - Edinburgh Preview |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | The Grandees: Baboom! Edinburgh Preview |
| 2014 | Director Theatre | Peter Vincent's "Skin A Rabbit" |
| 2014 | Lighting Operator Theatre | "Miniaturists 47" |
| 2014 | Stage Manager Theatre | Hannah Moscovitch's "East of Berlin" |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | The Forgery Club Freak Show |
| 2014 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | A May's Plays: Unrestricted View 15th Anniversary Season |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | "The Grandees" |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | Short Cuts 7: The Key |
| 2014 | Technical Operator Theatre | Rat @ Sketchfest |
| 2014 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | Alistair McClure's "Wekillpimps.com" |
| 2014 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | "Miniaturists 46" |
| 2014 | Stage Manager & Technical Operator Theatre | "Superman the Musical" |
| 2014 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | Mike Carter's "The Trunk" |
| 2014 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | Phil Whelan's "Kill Phil" |
| 2013 - 2014 | Theatre Manager Theatre | Various Shows |
| 2013 | Performer / Choreographeer Event | Fangtasia London |
| 2013 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | Jonathan Brown's "The Silent Stream" |
| 2013 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | Steve Elliot's "Never Ever Say Never... Ever!" |
| 2013 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | Daisy Ashford's "The Young Visiters" |
| 2013 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | David Tristram's "The Opposite Sex" |
| 2013 | Lighting Designer Theatre | William Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" |
| 2013 | Director - Choreographer / Performer Event | Project Alpha Omega Alpha: Life Death Rebirth |
| 2013 | Performer / Director Event | "The Curse of Medusa" / UNTOUCHABLE Casa Nostra |
| 2012 | Performer / Director Event | "Panic Sermons" (Modern Panic III) |
| 2012 | Assistant Director Theatre | Doug Wright's "Quills" |
| 2012 | Stage Manager Event | 2.8 Hours Later (London) |
| 2012 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" |
| 2012 | Assistant Director / Stage Manager Theatre | Filippo Delaunay's "Fragments" |
| 2012 | Lighting Designer / Technical Operator Theatre | Filippo Delaunay's "Fragments" |
| 2012 | Lighting Designer Theatre | "The Wager" |
| 2012 | Lighting Designer Theatre | Ryoichi Wago's "Fukushima - A Silent Prayer of Poetry" |
| 2012 | Stage Manager - Technical Operator Theatre | Ryoichi Wago's "Fukushima - Silent Prayer of Poetry" |
| 2012 | Lighting Designer Theatre | Aphra Behn's "The Rover" |
| 2012 | Lighting Designer Film | A Zombie Nightmare |
| 2012 | Lighting Designer Theatre | Mike Carter's "Click" |
| 2012 | Lighting Designer Theatre | Richard Hurst's "Evidence" |
| 2012 | Lighting Designer Theatre | Jon Barton's "Powerplay" |
| 2012 | Lighting Designer Theatre | Elinor Perry-Smith's "Coup" |
| 2012 | Stage Manager Theatre | Richard Wagner's "Die Walküre" (The Valkyrie) |
| 2012 | Director Theatre | Jacques Cazotte's "The Devil in Love" |
| 2012 | Lighting Designer Theatre | Jacques Cazotte's "The Devil in Love" |
| 2012 | Stage Manager Theatre | Occupy:Love |
| 2011 | DSM / Sound Operator Theatre | "Christmas Cock-up" |
| 2011 | Stage Manager Theatre | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" |
| 2011 | Director Theatre | Chryssanthi Kouri's "Arrow in the Heart" (Workshop) |
| 2011 | Stage Manager / Technical Operator Theatre | Pam Gems's "Piaf" |
| 2011 | ASM / Operator Theatre | Patti Smith & Sam Shepard's "Cowboy Mouth" |
| 2011 | Director, Assistant Theatre | HP Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" |
| 2011 | Assistant Lighting Designer Theatre | HP Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" |
| 2011 | Deputy Lighting Designer Theatre | Joe Dipietro and Jimmy Roberts's "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!" |
| 2011 | Stage Manager Theatre | Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Malicious Monk |
| 2011 | Stage Manager Theatre | Yesdi Zakovski's "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Malicious Monk" |
| 2011 | Lighting and Sound Operator / Deputy Lighting Designer Theatre | David Weedall's "The Spy And The Femme Fatale" |
| 2011 | Stage Manager Theatre | "Let There Be Light" |
| 2011 | Director Theatre | Catriona Kerridge's "Beautiful Egg" (Workshop-Reading) |
| 2011 | Assistant Prop Collector/Maker Theatre | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley's "The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd" |
| 2011 | Lighting Designer, Assistant Theatre | "Recipe for a Perfect Wife" |
| 2011 | Director Theatre | Phil Jacob's "Closed Circuit Love" (Workshop) |
| 2011 | Director Theatre | Andrew Davidson's "Lies the Truth" |
| 2011 | Stage Manager Theatre | Murray Schisgal's "74 Georgia Avenue" |
| 2011 | Director, Assistant Theatre | Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" |
| 2011 | Director Theatre | Nikos Kazantzakis's "The Saviors of God" |
| 2010 | Director/Writer Film | The Queen is Dead |
| 2010 | Assistant Production Manager Theatre | Sondheim and Goldman's "Follies" |
| 2010 | Lighting Designer & Operator Theatre | Federico Garcia Lorca's "Yerma" |
| 2010 | FOH Management & ASM Theatre | Karlton Parris & Luisa Jay's "The Ripper's 5" |
| 2010 | Stage Manager / Operator Theatre | Josep Maria Benet i Jornet's "Desire" |
| 2010 | Director Theatre | Neil Turner's "Deeper and Deep" (Workshop) |
| 2010 | Stage Manager / Technical Operator Theatre | Mahny Djahanguiri's Blonde Compassion" |
| 2010 | Director, Actress, Set, Light and Music Designer Theatre | Jean Genet's "The Tightrope Walker" - Work in Progress |
| 2010 | Stage Manager / Operator Theatre | Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" |
| 2010 | FOH Theatre | See You Next Tuesday Festival -Various |
| 2010 | Stage Manager / Operator Theatre | Deborah Levy's "Clam" & "Honey/Baby" |
| 2009 | Director Theatre | Samuel Beckett's "Catastrophe" |
| 2009 | Director / Lighting/Set/Costume Designer / Operator Theatre | Jean Genet's "The Maids" |
| 2006 - 2007 | Director Theatre | Tennessee Williams's "This Property is Condemned" |
| 2006 - 2007 | Director Theatre | Tennessee Williams's "The Lady of Larkspur Lotion" |
| 2006 - 2007 | Director Theatre | Tennessee Williams's "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me listen" |
| 2006 - 2007 | Lighting Designer Theatre | "The Wasteland of Dreams" |
| 2006 | Actress, Music Supervisor Theatre | Jean Cocteau's "The Human Voice" |
| 2005 | Actress Theatre | Eugene Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano" |
| 2003 | Stage Manager Theatre | Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" |
Education
Year Qualification Where 2010 MA Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance University of york 2007 BA Theatre Arts The American College of Greece Additional Skills
- Working knowledge of Health & Safety Policy, Risk Assessment & Accident Reporting Procedures
- Trained in Basic First Aid
- Trained in Emergency Life Support
- Clean Driving Licence
- IT Proficiency
- Photography
- Stage Management
- Technical Operation
- Lighting Design
- Lighting Plotting, Rigging, Focusing
- Costume Repair
- Set Design
- Set Construction & Carpentry
- Set & Wardrobe Maintenance
- Prop Making/Adapting
- Prop Sourcing
- Art Direction
- Publicity Design
- Stage Makeup
- Score Reading
- Sight Reading
- Workshops
- Video Art
- Drawing
- Painting
- Sculpting
- Writing
- Acting
- Singing
- Martial Arts
* "The Theatrical Voice" with Sarah Holden-Boyd (Accidental Festival, Central School of Speech and Drama, 2013)
* "Shakespeare Verse Speaking" with the Factory (Rose Theatre, Kingston, 2011)
* "Improvising Chekhov" with the Factory (Rose Theatre, Kingston, 2011)
* "Playwriting" with Simon Stephens (University of York, 2009)
* "TV Series Writing" with Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (University of York, 2009)
* "Voice Training" with David Careyl (University of York, 2009)
* "Collaborative Writing" with Sam West and Laura Wade (University of York, 2009)
* "Script Writing" with Troels Jakobsen (American College, Athens, 2006)
* "Acting based on David Mamet's Technique" with Troels Jakobsen (American College, Athens, 2005)
* "Improvisational Acting" (American College, Athens, 2003)
Referees
Available upon request
About me
Venus Raven holds a BA degree in Theatre Arts from the American College of Greece and an MA in Theatre Writing, Directing and Performance from the University of York.
Skills
- Languages Spoken
- English
- French
- Greek
- Italian
- Years in industry
- 6+ years
- Company Experience
- Children's Theatre
- Circus
- Cross Cultural Theatre
- Educational Theatre
- Exhibitions
- Forum Theatre
- Immersive Theatre
- Inclusive Theatre
- International Touring Theatre
- National Theatre
- Regional Theatre
- Site Specific Theatre
- UK Touring Theatre
- Experienced In
- Ballet
- Circus
- Comedy
- Community
- Dance
- Devised
- Drama
- Exhibitions
- Experimental
- Festival
- Fringe
- Inclusive Theatre
- Live Events
- Musicals
- New Writing
- Opera
- Outdoor Events
- Pantomime
- Revue
- Shakespeare
- Showcase
- Tragedy
- Work Permits
- EU
- Interested in
- Cruises
- Education
- European Tour
- Film / TV
- Live Events
- UK Tour
- World Tour
- Driving Licences
- Standard
- Industry Training
- First Aid (Any)
