Jack Knowles
Lighting Designer
Heads of Department
Heads of Department
Jack was awarded the ADB Award for Plays at the 2018 Knight of Illumination Awards for his design of Barber Shop Chronicles.
A closing slow-motion sequence … looks like a Baroque painting made manifest – lighting designer Jack Knowles mixes chiaroscuro and carnage
WhatsOnStage on The Duchess of Malfi (Almeida)
a teeming, eclectic visual vocabulary reflected in [...] the pregnant campfire spookiness of Jack Knowles’s lighting
New York Times on Shipwreck (Almeida)
One of the most inventive lighting designers around
The Stage, Designers to Watch
In Development
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2021 | Schauspiel Stuttgart | Dir. Sophia Bodamer |
2021 | Nottingham Playhouse/Leeds Playhouse | Dir. Adam Penford |
2021 | Queens Theatre Hornchurch/UK Tour | Revival of 2018 production |
2021 | Studio 54/Roundabout Theatre Company | Broadway transfer |
2021 | Elliott and Harper Productions/UK Tour | Dir. Michael Fentiman, based on the original production by Sally Cookson |
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2020 | Almeida Theatre | Dir. Rebeca Frecknall |
2020 | Gothenburg Opera | Dir. Max Webster |
2019 | Almeida Theatre | Dir. Rebecca Frecknall |
2019 | Royal Exchange Theatre | Dir. Sarah Frankcom |
2019 | Royal Court Downstairs | Dir. James Macdonald |
2019 | Royal Court Downstairs | Dir. John Tiffany |
2019 | Royal Shakespeare Company (Swan Theatre) | Dir. Prasanna Puwanarajah |
2019 | Almeida Theatre | Dir. Rebecca Frecknall |
2019 | National Theatre (Lyttelton) | Dir. Lyndsey Turner |
2019 | Almeida Theatre | Dir. Rupert Goold |
2019 | Nottingham Playhouse/Northern Stage | Revival of 2018 production |
2018 | Chichester Festival Theatre/Hampstead Theatre/Playhouse Theatre | Dir. Michael Longhurst |
2018 | Royal Exchange Theatre | Dir. Raz Shaw |
2018 | Royal Exchange Theatre | Dir. Sarah Frankcom |
2018 | Sheffield Crucible | Dir. Rebecca Frecknall |
2018 | Lyric Theatre Belfast | Dir. Des Kennedy |
2018 | Traverse 2/Royal Exchange Studio | Dir. Raz Shaw |
2018 | Vaudeville Theatre/Classic Spring | Dir. Michael Fentiman |
2018 | London Sinfonietta | Dir. Lucy Bailey |
2018 | Almeida Theatre | Dir. Natalie Abrahami |
2018 | Royal Exchange Theatre | Dir. Sarah Frankcom |
2018 | World Tour | Dir. George Perrin |
2018 | Royal Court Downstairs | Dir. Hamish Pirie |
2018 | Home MCR | Dir. Bijan Sheibani |
2018 | Nottingham Playhouse | Dir. Adam Penford |
2018 | Ambassadors Theatre/National Theatre (Dorfman) | Dir. Polly Findlay |
2017 | Oily Cart/UK Tour | Dir. Tim Webb |
2017 | Bush Theatre/Royal Exchange Theatre | Dir. Jude Christian |
2017 | Royal Exchange Studio | Dir. Raz Shaw |
2017 | Royal Exchange Theatre | Dir. Sarah Frankcom |
2017 | Donmar Warehouse | Dir. Adam Penford |
2017 | Royal Exchange Theatre | Dir. Jo Davies |
2017 | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg | Dir. Katie Mitchell |
2017 - 2019 | National Theatre (Dorfman)/West Yorkshire Playhouse/Australian Tour/US Tour/UK Tour/Roundhouse/Fuel | Dir. Bijan Sheibani |
2017 | Headlong | Dir. Jeremy Herrin |
2017 | Headlong | Dir. Sam Pritchard |
2017 | ATC/Orange Tree | Dir. Ramin Gray |
2016 - 2017 | Polka Theatre/UK Tour | Dir. Michael Fentiman |
2015 - 2016 | European, Australian, American and UK Tours | Dir. Edward Stambollouian |
2016 | Mercury Theatre Colchester | Dir. Pia Furtado |
2016 | Royal Exchange Theatre | Dir. Sarah Frankcom |
2016 | Almeida Theatre | Dir. Michael Longhurst |
2016 | Theatre Royal Stratford East/Royal Academy of Music | Dir. Michael Fentiman |
2016 | Watermill Theatre | Dir. Adam Penford |
2014 - 2016 | Salzburger Festspiele/Schaubühne Berlin/Barbican Theatre | Dir. Katie Mitchell |
2016 | Arcola Theatre | Dir. Lucy Bailey |
2016 | Almeida Theatre | Dir. Sacha Wares |
2016 | National Theatre (Dorfman) | Dir. Katie Mitchell |
2016 | Liverpool Everyman/Peepolykus/UK Tour | Dir. Gemma Bodinetz |
2016 | Royal Exchange Theatre | Dir. Raz Shaw |
2015 | Liverpool Playhouse/Sonia Friedman Productions/Hammer | Dir. Melly Still |
2015 | Oily Cart/UK Tour | Dir. Tim Webb |
2015 | Deafinitely Theatre/Park Theatre | Dir. Paula Garfield |
2015 | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg | Dir. Katie Mitchell |
2015 | Oily Cart/UK Tour | Dir. Tim Webb |
2015 | International Beckett Festival | Dir. Sophie Hunter |
2015 | Royal Exchange Theatre | Dir. Sarah Frankcom |
2015 | National Theatre (Dorfman) | Dir. Emily Lim |
2015 | Hampstead Theatre Downstairs | Dir. Charlotte Gwinner |
2015 | Old Vic Community Company | Dir. Alexander Ferris |
2015 | Almeida Theatre | Dir. Michael Longhurst |
2015 | Almeida Theatre | Dir. Sacha Wares |
2015 | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg | Dir. Katie Mitchell |
2014 | Oily Cart/UK Tour | Dir. Tim Webb |
2014 | Discover Story Centre | Dir. Sally Goldsworthy |
2014 | Royal Court Downstairs/Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg | Dir. Katie Mitchell |
2014 | Arts Ed | Dir. Dan Bird |
2014 | Shepdaws Ltd/Wellcome Trust | Dir. Andrew Dawson |
2014 | Oily Cart/UK Tour | Dir. Tim Webb |
2014 | Southwark Playhouse | Dir. Abigail Graham |
2014 | Tricycle Theatre | Dir. Emily Lim |
2014 | Paines Plough/Tricycle/UK Tour | Dir. Stef O'Driscoll |
2014 | Burgtheater, Vienna | Dir. Katie Mitchell |
2013 | Soho Theatre/59E59, New York/India/UK Tour | Revival |
2013 | Oily Cart/UK Tour | Dir. Tim Webb |
2013 | Schaubühne Berlin | German language premiere |
THE SOUND OF MUSIC 2013 | Jordan Cultural Festival | Dir. Jeff Moss |
2013 | Edinburgh/Manchester Royal Exchange/Theatertreffen Festival, Berlin | Dir. Sam Pritchard |
2013 | HighTide/Bush Theatre | Dir. Prasanna Puwanarajah |
2013 | Hampstead Theatre | Dir. Katie Mitchell |
DIE GELBE TAPETE (THE YELLOW WALLPAPER) 2013 | Schaubühne Berlin | Dir. Katie Mitchell |
THE CHANGELING 2012 | Young Vic | Dir. Joe Hill-Gibbons |
TOMMY 2012 | Prince Edward Theatre | Dir. Raz Shaw |
REISE DURCH DIE NACHT (THE NIGHT TRAIN) 2012 | Schauspiel Köln | Dir. Katie Mitchell |
BLINK 2012 | Soho Theatre/Traverse Theatre | Dir. Joe Murphy |
MARK THOMAS: BRAVO FIGARO 2012 | Traverse Theatre/UK Tour | Dir. Hamish Pirie |
IN A PICKLE 2012 | RSC & Oily Cart/UK Tour | Dir. Tim Webb |
THIN ICE 2012 | UK Tour | Dir. Jonathan Young |
SOMETHING IN THE AIR 2012 | Arts Depot | Dir. Tim Webb |
RING-A-DING-DING 2011 | Unicorn & Oily Cart/UK Tour | Dir. Tim Webb |
THE RIOTS 2011 | Tricycle Theatre/Bernie Grant Arts Centre | Dir. Nicolas Kent |
YOUNG PRETENDER 2011 | Watford Palace Theatre/UK Tour | Dir. Joe Murphy |
VICTORIA 2011 | Arts Ed | Dir. Richard Cant |
A WOMAN ALONE 2011 | Tabard Theatre | Dir. Phyllis Nagy |
THE BOY ON THE SWING 2011 | Arcola Theatre | Dir. Joe Murphy |
DIE WELLEN 2011 | Schauspielhaus Cologne | Dir. Katie Mitchell |
IF THAT'S ALL THERE IS 2010 | Inspector Sands/UK and International Tour | Dir. Lu Kemp |
MY NAME IS SUE 2010 | Soho Theatre/UK Tour | Dir. Ben Lewis |
ROOM 2010 | Tron Theatre | Dir. Lu Kemp |
RED SEA FISH 2009 | 59E59 New York | Dir. Matt Wilkinson |
HANGING BY A THREAD 2009 | Traverse/UK Tour | The Ding Foundation |
IF THAT'S ALL THERE IS 2009 | Traverse Theatre | Dir. Lu Kemp |
MEET ME HALFWAY 2009 | CPT/Little Wonder/UK Tour | Des. Anna Bruder |
DORIAN GRAY 2008 | Leciester Square Theatre | Dir. Linnie Reedman |
STRIPPERS & GENTLEMEN 2008 | Edinburgh (Found Space) | Dir/Des. Dan Marsden |
LOVE'S LABYRINTH 2008 | Georgian Theatre Royal | Dir. Jack Edwards |
A GUEST FOR DINNER 2008 | Arts Depot Studio | Dir. Maxine Doyle |
ROMEO AND JULIET 2008 | Greenwich Playhouse | Dir. Linnie Reedman |