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Davy Cunningham - Lighting Designer

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Short biography Davy Cunningham was born in Scotland and studied philosophy at Stirling University. He has designed the lighting for more than two hundred opera productions throughout Britain and for most major European opera companies from Antwerp to Zürich as well as in Australia and North America. His work encompasses huge lighting installations on the lake at the Bregenz Festival as well as the intimacy of Mozart at Schönbrunn Palace. Several of the productions he has lit in recent years have been taken up by opera companies all over Europe and beyond. In spoken theatre he has lit productions for Druid in Galway and the USA, The Abbey and The Gate, major West End productions and plays on Broadway, at the Royal Shakespeare Company, for the National Theatre, the Old Vic and British regional companies. In 2010 he lights plays and operas in Frankfurt, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Hamburg, Galway, Lille and Berlin. 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. Davy Cunningham was born in Scotland and studied philosophy at Stirling University. He has designed the lighting for more than two hundred opera productions throughout Britain and for most major European opera companies from Antwerp to Zürich as well as in Australia and North America. His work encompasses huge lighting installations on the lake at the Bregenz Festival as well as the intimacy of Mozart at Schönbrunn Palace. Several of the productions he has lit in recent years have been taken up by opera companies all over Europe and beyond. In spoken theatre he has lit productions for Druid in Galway and the USA, The Abbey and The Gate, major West End productions and plays on Broadway, at the Royal Shakespeare Company, for the National Theatre, the Old Vic and British regional companies. In 2010 he lights plays and operas in Frankfurt, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Hamburg, Galway, Lille and Berlin.