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Wayne Dowdeswell studied at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He spent several seasons at Contact Theatre, Manchester before moving to the Royal Shakespeare Company where he lit many productions for The Other Place, The Pit and Barbican Theatres. He became Lighting Supervisor for the Swan Theatre where designs include: The Rover, The Fair Maid of the West, Every Man in his Humour, Titus Andronicus, The Jew of Malta, The Duchess of Malfi, Edward II, The Seagull, Tamburlaine the Great, The Country Wife.
RSC lighting designs in the West End include: The Shakespeare Revue, The Cherry Orchard, The 'Jacobethan' Season (Edward III, Eastward Ho!, The Roman Actor, The Island Princess, The Malcontent), The Tamer Tamed, The 'Gunpowder' Season (Thomas More, A New Way to Please You, Believe What You Will, Sejanus, Speaking like Magpies), Breakfast with Mugabe, The Canterbury Tales.
Other theatre productions include: The Vanek Plays (London & Prague), Medea (Wyndhams and NY), The Birthday Party, Not the End of the World (Bristol Old Vic), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Life of Stuff, Whisky Galore! (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Present Laughter (Clwyd), Sweeny Todd (Cheltenham), Cabaret, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (York), Dr Faustus, The School for Scandal, Volpone, The Duchess of Malfi (Stage on Screen, Greenwich)
His designs for Opera include : Eugene Onegin, Rinaldo, Madama Butterfly (Grange Park Opera), The Mikado, (D'Oyly Carte, Savoy Theatre), The Cunning Little Vixen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Don Giovanni (Longborough Festival Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor, (Scottish Opera and Mariinsky, St. Petersburg).
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