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Jenny Cane - Lighting Designer

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Short biography Jenny Cane was born in Sri Lanka and began work as a lighting designer for Charles Marowitz at The Open Space in London. Since then she has designed theatre, opera, musical and dance productions in the West End, throughout Britain as well as in Europe, North America and Australia. She has also held posts as Artistic Associate at Theatr Clwyd and as Lighting Manager for the English National Opera. Her work in regional repertory theatre in Britain is extensive and includes productions at Haymarket Leicester where she has lit over 30 productions, as well as shows for companies from Edinburgh to Plymouth. Many of her productions have been seen in the West End and she has worked for many major producers including Lord Lloyd-Webber and Cameron Mackintosh on musicals that have consequently toured in Britain and abroad. These include CAFÉ PUCCINI, REQUIEM & VARIATIONS, EUROVISION and FOLLIES, NINE and SWEENEY TODD at the Royal Festival Hall; drama productions in London include CHAPTER II, THE ASPERN PAPERS, THE ODD COUPLE and THREE TALL WOMEN. Jenny Cane’s special talent for music theatre is reflected in her designs for many Sondheim productions as well as major touring musicals such as THE SOUND OF MUSIC, PIRATES OF PENZANCE and JOLSON in London, the provinces and abroad. She lit A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris in 2010. Her lighting designs for EUGENE ONEGIN continue in repertoire at the English National Opera and she worked on many productions there including DER ROSENKAVALIER, FALSTAFF, MADAM BUTTERFLY, PETER GRIMES and THE BARBER OF SEVILLE. She designed the lighting for THE MAGIC FLUTE in Antwerp and most recently DIE FLEDERMAUS for Scottish Opera Go Round and THE TURN OF THE SCREW in Macedonia. She returned to Scottish Opera in 2008 for A NIGHT AT THE CHINESE OPERA. A further collaboration was with the African dance company AZIDO for whom she created the lighting of SILK and FOOTSTEPS OF AFRICA in London and on tour. If you wish to paste this information into a document, click in the text field below and copy the text to your computer's clipboard. Jenny Cane was born in Sri Lanka and began work as a lighting designer for Charles Marowitz at The Open Space in London. Since then she has designed theatre, opera, musical and dance productions in the West End, throughout Britain as well as in Europe, North America and Australia. She has also held posts as Artistic Associate at Theatr Clwyd and as Lighting Manager for the English National Opera. Her work in regional repertory theatre in Britain is extensive and includes productions at Haymarket Leicester where she has lit over 30 productions, as well as shows for companies from Edinburgh to Plymouth. Many of her productions have been seen in the West End and she has worked for many major producers including Lord Lloyd-Webber and Cameron Mackintosh on musicals that have consequently toured in Britain and abroad. These include CAFÉ PUCCINI, REQUIEM & VARIATIONS, EUROVISION and FOLLIES, NINE and SWEENEY TODD at the Royal Festival Hall; drama productions in London include CHAPTER II, THE ASPERN PAPERS, THE ODD COUPLE and THREE TALL WOMEN. Jenny Cane’s special talent for music theatre is reflected in her designs for many Sondheim productions as well as major touring musicals such as THE SOUND OF MUSIC, PIRATES OF PENZANCE and JOLSON in London, the provinces and abroad. She lit A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris in 2010. Her lighting designs for EUGENE ONEGIN continue in repertoire at the English National Opera and she worked on many productions there including DER ROSENKAVALIER, FALSTAFF, MADAM BUTTERFLY, PETER GRIMES and THE BARBER OF SEVILLE. She designed the lighting for THE MAGIC FLUTE in Antwerp and most recently DIE FLEDERMAUS for Scottish Opera Go Round and THE TURN OF THE SCREW in Macedonia. She returned to Scottish Opera in 2008 for A NIGHT AT THE CHINESE OPERA. A further collaboration was with the African dance company AZIDO for whom she created the lighting of SILK and FOOTSTEPS OF AFRICA in London and on tour.