Ben Pickersgill

Ben grew up in Yorkshire and is a UK-based lighting designer working primarily in opera and theatre.  Recent designs for opera include Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci (Greek National Opera), Falstaff, La Rondine, Trouble in Tahiti (Opera North), Dalia (Garsington Opera), Cherubin (Royal Academy of Music) and The Turn of the Screw (Bury Court Opera). His theatre work includes A Little Night Music (Buxton International Festival), Odyssey: A Heroic Pantomime (Jermyn Street Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Theatre by the Lake), Unicorns Almost (Bristol Old Vic) and the UK Tour of This House. Project as associate include Macbeth (Palau de les Arts, Valencia), The Inheritance (West End and Broadway), The Lehman Trilogy (West End) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for New National Theatre Tokyo, lit via zoom during the pandemic. Ben has also collaborated with the Royal Ballet, lighting their Draft Works festival.