Jon Clark

Jon is a Tony and Olivier award-winning lighting designer. He has designed extensively in the  West End, on Broadway, for the National Theatre, Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare  Company and with many other companies in the UK and internationally.  

For the Donmar: The Fear of 13; Limehouse; Trelawny of the Wells; Moonlight and Polar Bears. 

Theatre includes: Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards (Broadway/ West End); Evita; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; Mrs Warren’s Profession; Hello Dolly!; Romeo & Juliet (West End); A Doll’s House (Broadway); The Lehman Trilogy - Tony Award (National Theatre/ Broadway/ West End/ LA/ San Francisco/ Sydney); The Inheritance - Olivier Award (West End/ Broadway/ Young Vic); Betrayal; The Shark Is Broken (West End/ Broadway); Cyrano de Bergerac (BAM/ West End); The Effect (National Theatre/ The Shed); The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre/ West End); Dear England (National Theatre/ West End/ UK tour); The Motive & The Cue (National Theatre/ West End); The Jungle (Young Vic/ West End/ St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York); A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic/St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York) and King Charles III (West End & Broadway).  

Opera includes: Hamlet (The Met Opera/Glyndebourne); The Exterminating Angel (The Met Opera/ Royal Opera & Ballet/ Salzburg Festival); Pique Dame (Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich); Krol Roger (Royal Opera & Ballet/ Opera Australia); Written on Skin (Festival Aix-en-Provence/ Royal Opera & Ballet/ International); Lucia di Lammermoor; Krol Roger; L’Etoile (Royal Opera & Ballet); Macbeth (Royal Danish Opera/ Palau de les Arts, Valencia); La bohème (Dutch National Opera/ English National Opera); Orpheus & Eurydice (English National Opera) and Footfalls/Neither (StaatsOper, Berlin).  

Dance includes: LORE for Wayne McGregor (La Scala, Milan) and The Cellist for Cathy Marston  (Royal Ballet). 

Jon won a Tony Award and Outer Critics Award for The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway, an Olivier Award for his work on The Inheritance; a Green Room Award for King Roger in Australia and a Knight of Illumination award for Three Days of Rain. He is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.