Ryan Day

Ryan is a lighting designer for theatre, dance, opera, concerts, and fashion.  

He studied Theatre Lighting Design at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.   

His theatre credits include: Macbeth; The Constant Wife; The Red Shoes (RSC); Hamlet; Never Have I Ever (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Beautiful Future is Coming (Bristol Old Vic); Pimpinone (Royal Opera House); The Da Vinci Code (Salisbury Playhouse/Mercury Theatre); In the Mouth of the Wolf (Barn Theatre); Handbagged (Queens Theatre/U.K. tour); Twelfth Night (National Youth Theatre); A Marvellous Party (Prince of Wales); The King’s Speech (Watermill); The History Boys (Theatre Royal Bath/UK tour); Pericles (RSC/Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Now, I See (Stratford East - Offies 2025, Best Lighting Design); The Lion Inside; The Boy at the Back Class (Rose Theatre/International tour); Backstairs Billy (Duke of York’s); Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK tour); Saving Face (Curve Leicester/The Place); War and Culture (New Diorama); Black Superhero (Royal Court); Local Hero (Co-Lighting Designer with Paule Constable, Minerva - Chichester); Wild Onion (Norwich Theatre Royal/U.K. tour); Lizard Boy (Hope Mill/Edinburgh Fringe); Mission; The Ballad of Corona V (The Big House); Christie Done It; Dr Faustess (Cockpit); Rabbit Hole; Darknet (Union Theatre); I Know I Know I Know (Southwark Playhouse); Into the Woods and A Merchant of Venice (Playground). 

Associate/assistant designer credits include: The Rite of Spring (Sadler’s Wells/UK tour); Wickies (Park Theatre); The Lemon Table (Salisbury Playhouse/UK tour); Les Misérables and Les Misérables In Concert (Sondheim). 

Ryan won Best Lighting Design (Body of Work) at the Black British Theatre Awards 2024.