Ben Cracknell

Lighting Design

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Ben Cracknell

Lighting Design

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Ben is an Associate Artist of Curve in Leicester. He trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and was recently honoured to be awarded a Fellowship.

West End includes: The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noel Coward Theatre); The Drifters Girl (Garrick); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Heathers (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Inala (Peacock Theatre); Young Frankenstein (Garrick); Annie (Piccadilly);Jack & The Beanstalk, Pantoland, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Snow White, Dick Whittington and Cinderella (London Palladium); Breakfast at Tiffanys (Theatre Royal Haymarket); All the Fun of the Fair (Garrick); Dancing in the Streets (Cambridge).

Regional and UK tours include: Wizard of Oz (Curve), Billy Elliot (Curve); Grease, Beautiful, The Osmonds, Heathers, The Addams Family, The Cher Show, Rock of Ages, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dracula, La Cage Aux Folles (UK Tours);Comedy Of Errors (Colchester) Love on the Links & Before the Party (Salisbury Playhouse); The Color PurpleMy Beautiful Laundrette, An Officer and a GentlemanSunset Boulevard, Beautiful Thing  (Curve/UK tour); What the Butler Saw (Curve/Theatre Royal Bath); The Importance of Being Ernest (Birmingham Rep/Curve); Kiss Me Kate (WNO/Opera North), Saturday Night Fever (Theatre Royal, Bath/UK tour); The Tempest, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It (Stafford Shakespeare Festival);  The Memory of Water (New Vic, Stoke); Sherlock Holmes (West Yorkshire Playhouse);  Merrily We Roll Along (Theatre Clwyd).

International Includes: Wicked (Brazil); We Will Rock You (World Tour); Chess (Tokyo & Osaka); La Clemenza di Tito (Opéra de Lausanne/Opera de Oviedo/ Opera Bilbao); Romeo und Julia (Theater Trier); Annie and Chess (Toronto); The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Life, Strangers On A Train, Sweet Charity and Tommy (English Theatre, Frankfurt); Legally Blonde (South Korea); Inala (Sadlers Wells/International tour); Faust, 1984 (Altes Schauspielhaus, Stuttgart); Dracula (Singapore/Bangkok).

Television includes: The Princes Trust Awards (ITV); The Classic Brit Awards (Royal Albert Hall); The Olivier Awards 2011 – 2023 (2014 & 2019 Knight of Illumination Award for Best Lighting) (Royal Opera House and Royal Albert Hall); The Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra (Royal Festival Hall) and Il Divo (Coliseum).

The Drifters Girl

West End

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

West End

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat

West End

Grease

West End

Young Frankenstein

West End

La Clemenza di Tito

Opera Lausanne

The Olivier Awards

Royal Albert Hall, ITV

Kiss Me Kate

Opera North

The Importance of Being Earnest

Birmingham Rep

Chess

Umeda Arts Theatre, Japan