About
British lighting designer Jon Clark made his Royal Opera debut in 2013 on Written on Skin, and also designed lighting for Clemency for ROH2 in the Linbury Studio Theatre. He has since returned to light Król Roger, L’Étoile, Lucia di Lammermoor and The Exterminating Angel.
Clark works prolifically in theatre and is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His credits there include A Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest. He works regularly for the National Theatre, where his credits include Amadeus, As You Like It, Beaux Stratagem, Othello, Hansel and Gretel, Damned by Despair, Collaborators, Beauty and the Beast, Hamlet, The Cat in the Hat and Our Class. Further credits include productions in the West End (Made in Dagenham, The Commitments), for the Almeida (Richard III, King Lear, The House of Bernarda Alba, among others), Trafalgar Studios (Dr Faustus, The Maids, The Ruling Class), the Young Vic (A Streetcar Named Desire, A Season in the Congo) and the Royal Court (Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Pride, among others).
Clark’s opera credits include Hamlet for Glyndebourne Festival, Macbeth for Royal Danish Opera, The Winter’s Tale, The Return of Ulysses, The Perfect American and Caligula for English National Opera, The Perfect American for Teatro Real, Madrid, Orestfor Dutch National Opera and Street Scene and The Lion’s Head for The Opera Group. He has lit dance productions for Bern Ballett and Scottish Dance.