Ghost Stories

James Farncombe - Lighting Designer

James has lit over 150 productions over the last decade in the UK and abroad.

Recent theatre credits include: Men Should Weep (National, Lyttelton); Glass Menagerie (Young Vic); Kommilitonen! (a new opera by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, a co-production between the Royal Academy of Music and the Julliard School, New York);  Twisted Tales (Lyric, Hammersmith); Plenty (Sheffield Crucible);  Swallows and Amazons, Juliet and her Romeo and Far Away (Bristol Old Vic); The Overcoat (Gecko/Lyric Hammersmith); The Whiskey Taster and Like a Fishbone (Bush), Wanderlust and Village Bike (Royal Court); Dancing at Lughnasa and Little Shop of Horrors (Birmingham Rep); A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and Breaking the Silence (Nottingham Playhouse); Private Fears in Public Places (Northampton Theatre Royal, nominated Best Lighting Design, TMA Awards 2009); The Great Game (Tricycle and US tour) and  'Ghost Stories' won the Whatsonstage Whitelight Best Lighting Award, 2011, and was nominated Best Lighting, TMA Awards 2010.

James is associate artist at the Bush, and a full list of credits and production photos are available at web.mac.com/jamesfarncombe.