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Zoe Spurr

lighting design

 

Lighting Designer

AGENT DETAILS - IMOGEN@casarotto.co.uk

https://www.casarotto.co.uk/clients/zoe-spurr

Awards & Nominations…

2019 Winner Theatre and Technology Award Lighting Design for ‘The Unreturning’ Frantic Assembly UK Tour 2018/19

2018/2019 Winner Lightmongers’ ALD Award ‘New Talent in Entertainment Lighting'

2019 Offie Winner Best Lighting Design, 'Tiny Dynamite' at The Old Red Lion, Time Productions

2018 Offie Finalist Best Lighting Design for 'Phoenix Rising'

2018 Theatre and Technology Award Lighting Design Nominee for ‘Confidence’ at Southwark Playhouse with Boundless Theatre

Current and Upcoming...

 

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Ambassadors Theatre

https://benjaminbuttonmusical.com

director Jethro Compton

Book & lyrics by Jethro Compton

Music & Lyrics Darren Clark

ministry of lesbian affairs

Damsel Productions and Kiln Theatre

director Hannah Hauer-King

design Anna Reid

sound design and composition Nicola T Chang

the bfg

THE RSC AND CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE, PRODUCED ALONGSIDE THE ROALD DAHL STORY COMPANY

adaptation Tom Wells

director Daniel Evans

puppetry designer and director Toby Olié

choreo and November Ira Mandela Siobhan

set design Vicki Mortimer

costume designer Kinnetia Isidore

video design Akhila Krishnan

illusionist Chris Fisher

composer Oleta Haffner

sound designer Carolyn Downing

The Unreturning - Frantic AssemblyUK Tour 2018-2019Photo Tristram Kenton

The Unreturning - Frantic Assembly

UK Tour 2018-2019

Photo Tristram Kenton

“The Unreturning - The sound design by Pete Malkin and lighting design Zoe Spurr add the depth that a show of this calibre needs to put the metaphorical icing on the cake....the lighting and sound not only work well together but with the rest of the production as a whole to create a sense of absolute synchronicity within this piece”
— James Eves, The Reviews Hub

The Artist (c) Mark Senior

“The visual design is completed by Zoe Spurr and her talented eye for lighting design. Zoe paints a picture with her lighting in this show’”
— Beyond The Curtain
“The Magic Flute - ...it is Zoe Spurr’s lighting design that elevates this performance to a real visual spectacle. Spurr’s work is a gorgeous combination of subtle colouring and in your face jubilance that complements the situation with startling accuracy. From the flickering of a seedy nightclub light, to the nostalgic revolving of a disco ball and primary coloured strip lighting, her work inadvertently draws the emotional eye time and time again.”
— Daniel Perks, Miro Magazine
“The Magic Flute - Zoe Spurr’s outstanding lighting designs”
— Mark Valencia, WhatsOn Stage
The Unreturning by Frantic Assembly (c) Tristram Kenton

The Unreturning by Frantic Assembly (c) Tristram Kenton

“‘The Unreturning’ - ...
Andrzej Goulding’s set is simple and magnificent, and superbly lit by Zoe Spurr”
— Scotsman
“there’s also Zoe Spurr’s masterful lighting which creates shadows of a man’s past”
— The Reviews Hub
 
‘Onegin’ at Buxton Opera House Buxton International Festival 2019 (c) Genevieve Girling

‘Onegin’ at Buxton Opera House Buxton International Festival 2019 (c) Genevieve Girling

PORTFOLIO

Twelfth Night @ RSC

Christmas 2024

Photos (c) Helen Murray

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON @ Ambassadors Theatre, West End

Autumn 2024

Photos (c) Marc Brenner

The Artist @ Theatre Royal Plymouth, Drew McOnie & Playful Productions

May 2024

(c) Mark Senior

ROBIN HOOD @ Regents Park Open Air Theatre

June 2023

Photos (c) Pamela Raith

Bonnie & Clyde

(c) The Other Richard

Our Generation

(c) Johan Persson

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World

(c) Pamela Raith

Hamlet @ Theatre Royal Windsor

Summer 2021

Photos (c) Marc Brenner

Animal Farm, National Youth Theatre @ Royal & Derngate

June 2021

Photos (c) Ali Wright

Othello, National Youth Theatre @ Royal & Derngate

June 2021

Photos (c) Helen Murray

Drowntown with Rhiannon Faith Dance Company

Touring 2021

Photos (c) Foteini Christofilopoulou

Hedda Tesman, Headlong, Chichester Minerva Theatre & Lowry Quays

Autumn 2019

Photos (c) Johan Persson

The Seven Ages of Patience @ Kiln Theatre

September 2019

Photos (c) Mark Douet

How Not To Drown

Thickskin Theatre

Photos (c) Michael Bodlovic

“there’s also Zoe Spurr’s masterful lighting which creates shadows of a man’s past”
— The Reviews Hub

Onegin @ Buxton Opera House, Buxton International Festival 2019

Photos (c) Genevieve Girling

“It was left to Zoe Spurr’s bold and evocative lighting designs to bring depth and colour to the presentation”
— Opera Wire

Georgiana @ Buxton Opera House, Buxton International Festival 2019

Photos (c) Genevieve Girling

Emilia @ Vaudeville Theatre (c) Helen Murray

The Phlebotomist @ Hampstead Theatre

April 2019

design Rosanna Vize

Photos (c) Marc Brenner

Cat In The Hat

UK Tour 2019

Photos (c) Manuel Harlan

The Unreturning, Frantic Assembly

UK Tour 2018/19

Photos (c) Tristram Kenton

Silence @ Mercury Theatre / UK Tour

A/W 2018

Photos (c) Robert Day

Meek 

Headlong/Bham Rep Co Production

UK Tour 2018

Photos (c) Helen Murray

'Abigail’s Party’

Queens Theatre Hornchurch / UK Tour

August 2018

Sticky @ Southwark Playhouse 'The Little'

June 2018

Photos (c) Helen Murray

Infinite Joy @ Southwark Playhouse 'The Little'

June 2018

Photos (c) Helen Murray

Confidence @ Southwark Playhouse 'The Little'

June 2018

Photos (c) Helen Murray

Not Talking @ Arcola Theatre

May / June 2018

Photos (c) Lidia Crisafulli

The Phlebotomist @ Hampstead Theatre 

April 2018

Photos (c) Mark Brenner / Tristram Kenton / The Guardian

Beginners @ The Unicorn Theatre

March 2018

Photos (c) Hugo Glendinning

Collective Rage @ Southwark Playhouse 'The Large' 

January 2018

Photos (c) Richard Davenport

Tiny Dynamite @ Old Red Lion

January 2018

Photos (c) Richard Davenport 

“moments of light, sound and movement punctuate the changes of scene, mesmerising the audience”
— The Spy In The Stalls
“The audience is shepherded between the different rooms and environments set up around the cast park, and the setting, along with some masterful lighting and set choices, lead to a very full and authentic atmosphere”
— Theatre Box

Phoenix Rising @ Car Park underneath Smithfield Market

November 2017

Photos (c) Dylan Nolte

The Magic Flute @ Soho Theatre

Autumn 2017 / UK Tour 17-18

Photos (c) Christopher Tribble and Andreas Grieger

The Drive, UK Tour/Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017

July 2017

Photos (c) Jack Offord

Natives @ Southwark Playhouse 'The Little'

March 2017

Photos (c) Richard Davenport & The Guardian

“Glenn Waldron’s script, which twists and turns, is outstandingly complemented by the work of Zoe Spurr and Cate Blanchard (lighting and video design, respectively) by projecting images- mostly animations and illustrations on the lightly coloured stage- Blanchard is able to balance deliberately cheesy atmosphere with more frantic moods, always accompanied by Spurr’s effective lighting.”
— Broadway World
“‘Rob Drummer’s stylish production – a modern blend of Technicolor lighting and softly swelling beats – maintains a lively rhythm’”
— The Stage
“The staging may be fairly simple, but it looks stunning, really strong lighting and sound design combine with well-crafted movement to create a beautifully formed piece””
— Theatre Weekly

Good Dog @ Watford Palace

February 2017

Photos (c) Wasi Daniju

wasidaniju.500px.com

Good Dog

Tech Rehearsal shots from the Production Desk

Photos (c) Zoe Spurr

The Knife Of Dawn @ The Sackler Studio, Camden Roundhouse

October 2016

Photos (c) Sarah J Scott

TORCH @ Latitude / New Diorama / Big Belly, Underbelly

July / August 2016

Photos (c) The Other Richard 

2025

the parent agency

Storyhouse Chester

written by David Baddiel

director Tim Jackson

music Dan Gillespie Sells

choreo carrie-Anne Ingrouille

set design Jon Bausor

costume design Sarah Mercadé

2024

TWELFTH NIGHT

RSC

https://www.rsc.org.uk/twelfth-night/

Director Prasanna Puwanarajah

Set & Costume Designer James Cotterill

Lighting Designer Zoe Spurr

Sound Designer George Dennis

Movement Director Polly Bennett

Casting Director Matthew Dewsbury CDG

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Ambassadors Theatre

https://benjaminbuttonmusical.com

director Jethro Compton

Book & lyrics by Jethro Compton

Music & Lyrics Darren Clark

The artist

Plymouth Theatre Royal

director & choreographer Drew McOnie

design Christopher Oram

video design Ash Woodward

sound design Simon Baker

Underdog

National Theatre & Northern Stage Co-Production

director Natalie Ibu

design Grace Smart

sound & composition Alex Faye Braithwaite

2023

Robin Hood

Regents Park Open Air Theatre

director Melly Still

design Chiara Stephenson

costume design Sam Wyer

sound design Emma Laxton

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

ELEPHANT Southwark Playhouse

director Jethro Compton

design Jethro Compton

associate design, and costume design Anna Kelsey

sound Luke Swaffield

The vortex

Chichester Festival Theatre

28th April - 20th May 2023

director Dan Raggett

design Jo Scotcher

costume design Evie Gurney

movement director Michela Meazza

music and sound Giles Thomas

Bonnie & Clyde

Garrick Theatre

director Nick Winston

design Philip Witcomb

video Nina Dunn

sound Tom Marshall

Beginning

Royal Exchange, Manchester

director Bryany Shanahan

designer TK Hay

sound design Russell Ditchfield

HOW NOT TO DROWN

Thickskin UK Tour

director Neil Bettles

design Becky Minto

sound Alex Faye Braithwaite

2022

GOOD

Harold Pinter Theatre

director Dominic Cooke

design Vicki Mortimer

sound Tom Gibbons

The importance of Being earnest

ETT/UK Tour

director Denzel Westley Sanderson

design Lily Arnold

sound Beth Duke

Migrations

Welsh National Opera

director David Pountney

design Loren Elstein

costume April Dalton

sound Seb Frost

WIND IN THE WILTONS

Wiltons Music Hall

writer Piers Torday

director Elizabeth Freestone

designer Tom Piper

sound Chris Warner

Bonnie & Clyde

The Arts Theatre

DLAP

director Nick Winston

design Philip Witcomb

sound Tom Marshall

video Nina Dunn

OUR GENERATION

Chichester Minerva Theatre

director Daniel Evans

writer Alecky Blythe

designer Vicki Mortimer

costume design Kinnetia Isidore

movement Carrie-Anne Ingrouille

music DJ Walde

sound Paul ArdittiLighting design

Ministry of lesbian affairs

Soho Theatre/Damsel Productions

director Hannah Hauer-King

design Anna Reid

sound Nicola Chang

Bonnie & Clyde

Concert

DLAP/Fourth Wall

Drury Lane Theatre

director Nick Winston

designer Philip Witcomb

sound Tom Marshall

2021

BEAUTY & THE BEAST

Nottingham Playhouse

director Bill Buckhurst

design Morgan Large

road

Northern Stage

director Natalie Ibu

designer Amelia Jane Hankin

FANTASTICALLY GREAT WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

KENNY WAX FANILY ENTERTAINMENT LTD/SOUTHAMPTON MAST

UK Tour 2022

https://fantasticallygreatwomenthemusical.com

writer Chris Bush

song writer Miranda Cooper

director Amy Hodge

choreography Dannielle Lecointe

design Jo Scotcher

sound design Carolyn Downing

Home, I’m darling

Stephen Joseph Theatre, Bolton Octagon & Theatre By The Lake

director Liz Stevenson

design Helen Coyston

sound design & composition Alexandra Faye Braithwaite

HAMLET

Theatre Royal Windsor

Bill Kenwright Ltd

director Sean Mathias

design Lee Newby

costume design Loren Elstein

sound design & composition Adam Cork

https://theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk/hamlet/

Holes

Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds

director Owen Calvert-Lyons

design AJH

Home, I’m Darling

SJT, Bolton Octagon, TBTL

director Liz Stevenson

design Helen Coyston

sound AFB

Animal Farm

National Youth Theatre

Royal & Derngate Northampton

director Ed Stambollouian

design Jasmine Swann

sound Xana

Othello

National Youth Theatre

Royal & Derngate Northampton

director Miranda Cromwell

design Rose Revitt

sound Xana

BROTHER (Workshop)

DEM Productions

Southwark Playhouse ‘The Little’

director Tom Jackson Greaves

2020

WEST END ACOUSTIC

Riverside Studios

New Frame Productions

Current Rising

Royal Opera House

Audience Labs & Figment Productions

director Netia Jones

Designer & CG Art Director Joanna Scotcher

Composer Samantha Fernando

Movement Director Anna Morrisey

Installation Lighting Designer Zoe Spurr

RUN SISTER RUN

Crucible Theatres / Soho Theatre

director Charlotte Bennett

design Rosie ELnile

sound and composition Arun Ghosh

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

director Bryony Shannahan

design Cecile Tremolieres

sound and composition Alexandra Faye Braithwaite

2019

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Edinburgh Lyceum

director Tony Cownie

design Neil Murray

sound design Pippa Murphy

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

NYT at The Criterion

director Matt Harrison

design Camilla Clarke

sound design Naomi Hammerton

Hedda Tesman

Chichester Minerva Theatre & Lowry Quays

director Holly Race Roughan

design Anna Fleischle

sound George Dennis

Composition Ruth Chan

The Seven Ages of Patience

Kiln Theatre

director Katie Posner

design Lily Arnold

sound & composition Ben & Max Ringham

Groomed To Perfection

Brighton Theatre Royal - Site Specific

director Sarah Bedi

design Ryan Laight

sound Zoe Milton

Onegin

Buxton Opera Festival 2019

director Jamie Manton

design Justin Nardella

Georgiana

Buxton Opera Festival 2019

director Matthew Richardson

design Jon Morrell

A Man without a past

East Midlands Tour

New Perspectives Theatre Company

director Jack McNamara

design Amelia Jane Hankin

sound design/composition James Atherton

Toast

The Other Palace, UK Tour Autumn 2019

writer Henry Filloux-Bennett

director Jonnie Riordan

design Libby Watson

sound + composition Alexandra Faye Braithwaite

“The first thing to say about Toast is that it looks gorgeous. Scrumptious even. Good enough to eat. Libby Watson production design hits the perfect nostalgic notes, and Zoe Spurr’s ever-excellent lighting design is a superb demonstration of what lighting can do to lift and enhance the action on stage, and act as as subtle and emotional guide for the audience”
— Spy in the Stalls

CAT IN THE HAT

Leicester Curve & The Rose Kingston, UK Tour 2019

director Suba Das

design Isla Shaw

sound David Gregory

the Phlebotomist

Hampstead Theatre

writer Ella Road

director Sam Yates

design Rosanna Vize

sound Sinead Diskin

video Louise Rhoades-Brown

EMILIA

Vaudeville Theatre, transfer from The Globe Theatre

writer Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

director Nicole Charles

design Joanna Scotcher

sound Emma Laxton

composer Luisa Gerstein

“‘Emilia’ - Zoe Spurr’s lighting is evocative and perfect”
— View from the Circle

Anthropocene

Scottish Opera / Glasgow Theatre Royal / Hackney Empire

composer Stuart McCrae

librettist Louise Welsh

director/lighting designer Matthew Richardson

associate LD Zoe Spurr

set designer Samal Blak

Jan/Feb 2019

2018

 

THE MAIDS

HOME Manchester Theatre 1

director Lily Sykes

design Ruari Murchison

sound design Jan Schöwer

“The sharp shifts of Zoe Spurr’s lighting can snap us in a moment from intoxicating, scarlet-drenched fantasy to imminent threat, all make believe, yet somehow it still sets the pulse racing”
— The Guardian, Catherine Love

The Unreturning

Frantic Assembly

director Neil Bettles

design + video Andrzej Goulding

costume design Lily Arnold

sound design Pete Malkin

silence

Mercury Theatre / UK tour

director Jo Newman

design Baśka Wesolowska

sound design Helen Skiera / Beth Duke

Abigails Party

Queens Theatre Hornchurch / UK Tour

director Doug Rintoul

designer Lee Newby

ABI

Queens Theatre / Derby Theatre

director Sarah Brigham

designer Lee Newby

sound Ivan Stott

Meek

Headlong

UK Tour

director Amy Hodge

design Max Jones

sound design Melanie Wilson

Nigel Slaters Toast

Edinburgh Fringe 2018

director Jonnie Riordan 

designer Libby Watson

sound design AFB

 

SPARKS

Edinburgh Fringe 2018

director Jess Edwards

design Amelia Jane Hankin

sound design AFB

POLSTEAD

Eastern Angles Theatre Company

Ipswich Tour

written by Beth Flintoff

director Hal Chambers

design Verity Quinn

composer Luke Potter 'Potts'

July/August 2018

 

Eric and little ern

UK Tour

director Dan Clarkson

2018

 

Sticky + infinite joy

Southwark Playhouse

director Eva Sampson / Simon Kane

designer Ryan Laight

BRIT School Bridge 

June/July 2018

 

Loose Lips

Big House, Stoke Newington Town Hall Site Specific

director Sammy Glover

designer Frankie Bradshaw

May 2018

 

Grotty

Bunker Theatre

Damsel Productions

director Hannah Hauer-King

designer Anna Reid

 

not talking

Arcola Studio 1

director James Hillier

designer Amy Cook

 

The phlebotomist

Hampstead Theatre

director Sam Yates

designer Rosanna Vize

 

beginners

Unicorn Theatre

director/writer Tim Crouch

designer Chloe Lamford + Camilla Clark

 

Collective Rage

Southwark Playhouse

director Charlie Parham

designer Anna Reid

 

Tiny dynamite

@ Old Red Lion Theatre

director David Loumgair

designer Anna Reid

2018 Offie Nominated 'Best Lighting Design'

 

2017

 

FEstival voices

Ugly Duck, a warehouse space in London Bridge

"Bold, collaborative choral music, performed to new audiences in unexpected venues"

November 2017

Phoenix rising

Smithfield Market Car Park, Site Specific Promenade

director Maggie Norris

designer Emma Bailey

November 2017

“Zoe Spurr’s brilliant lighting design means there is little intervention required from cast and crew to get the audience to the right area, as one scene naturally ends, the next is illuminated in such a way that the audience are drawn there like a moth to a flame. What we watch can, at times be uncomfortable, but like the moth we just cannot pull ourselves away.”
— Greg Stewart, Theatre Weekly
“...as one chapter concludes, Zoe Spurr’s crafty lighting design catches the eye from across the car park and draws the audience across to the next piece of the puzzle. ”
— Daniel Perks, Miro Magazine

Elton John's Glasses

Watford Palace Theatre

director Psyche Stott

designer Ruari Murchison

The North! The North!

Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and UK Tour

director John Walton

designer Rebecca Wood

creator Christopher Harrisson

 

The UNmarried

Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Underbelly

director Niall Phillips

writer/performer Lauren Gauge

 

The Drive

with Angel Exit Theatre

UK Tour / Edinburgh 2017

 

Elsa

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017, Assembly

director Sara Joyce

 

Beweep, Outcast

Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

director Martin Wylde

design Sammy Downson

sound design Chris Bartholomew 

 

The Scar Test

Soho Theatre

director Sara Joyce

design Amelia Jane Hankin

sound design Jo Walker

 

Skate Hard, turn left

Battersea Arts Centre

director Jemima James

set design Ruth Sutcliffe

sound design Dom Kennedy/Lex Kosanke

 

Hidden

UK Tour

director Scott Hurran

writer Nicola Werenowska

set design Loren Elstein

sound design Max Pappenheim

 

Natives

Boundless Theatre

director Rob Drummer

writer Glenn Waldron

#NativesThePlay

http://boundlesstheatre.org.uk/#natives

***** Theatre Weekly

***** Theatre Full Stop

***** Jack The Lad

**** The Guardian

**** The Metro

Good Dog

@ Watford Palace + UK Tour

Tiata Fahodzi

director Natalie Ibu

writer Arinze Kene

http://www.tiatafahodzi.com

***** 'theatre at its most simple and its most striking'

**** 'exhilarating' The Stage

School Play 

@ Southwark Playhouse 'The Little'

Antic-Face

director Charlie Parham

set design Anna Reid

sound design Michael England

**** Guardian

**** The Stage

**** Timeout

2016

Muted

December 2016

@ The Bunker Theatre, London Bridge

director Jamie Jackson

set + costume design Sarah Beaton

sound design Max Perryment

ALICE

December 2016

@ Aiglon College Switzerland

Erwartung / twice through the hearT

November 2016

@ Hackney Showroom with Shadwell Opera

"Shadwell Opera present a dazzling double-bill of one woman psychodramas: erwartung by Arnold Schoenberg and twice through the heart by Mark Anthony Turnage. Separated in the writing by ninety years, these two monodramas, both to words by female librettists, Marie Pappenheim and Jackie Kay, break apart and reconstitute the mind of an isolated woman in extraordinary stream-of-consciousness narrations"

director Jack Furness / Celine Lowenthall

set + costume Georgia De Grey

The Knife Of Dawn

October 2016

@ The Sackler Studio, Roundhouse

composer Hannah Kendall

librettist Tessa McWatt

director John Walton

set + costume Martin Thomas

Affection

September 2016

@ The Glory, Haggerston, and A.E Harris Stans Cafe Birmingham

Outbox Theatre

outboxtheatre.com

director Ben Buratta

writer Jodi Gray

set + costume Harry Whitham

BITCHES

August 2016

@ The Finborough Theatre

director Valentina Ceschi

writer Bola Agbaje

set + costume design Emma Bailey

TORCH

August 2016

@ Latitude,New Diorama, Edinburgh Underbelly Big Belly

director Jess Edwards

writer Phoebe Eclair-Powell

set + costume design Amelia Jane-Hankin

This Evil Thing

August 2016

@ The New Town Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

writer + performer Michael Mears

director Rosamunde Hutt

set + costume design Mark Friend

A Serious case of the fuckits

July 2016

@ Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Webber Douglas Studio

director Sarah Davey Hull

set and costume design Kate Driver Jones

Handle With Care

May 2016

A Site Specific touring production with Dante or Die, telling the story of lives through a storage facility. 

director Daphna Attias

set + costume design Jenny Hayton

 

The Heresy Of Love

April 2016

@ Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Embassy Theatre

director Martin Wylde

set + costume design Samantha Dowson 

 

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Contact Details...

 

For work enquiries, please contact agent - IMOGEN@CASAROTTO.CO.UK

 

Email address:

zoespurrlighting@gmail.com

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@ZoeSpurr_LD

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