Bethany Gupwell
Lighting Designer
First Class BA Honours In Lighting Design at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Awards and Nominations
2023 Offies Nomination for Best Lighting Design for This Much I Know
2022 Offies Nomination for Best Lighting Design for A-Typical Rainbow
2019 Offie Award nomination for Best Lighting Design for Queen Of The Mist
2018 Francis Reid Award of the Association of Lighting Designers
List Of Productions
2024
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL | Director: Chelsea Walker | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
ROBIN HOOD | Director: Jenni Jackson | Theatre Royal Bath, The Egg
QUIET SONGS | Director: Finn Beames | Barbican
LADY DEALER | Director: Emily Aboud | Bush Theatre
VISIT FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN | Hampstead Theatre
LARMES DE COUTEAU/ FULL MOON IN MARCH | Directors: Eleanor Burke & Harriet Taylor | Royal Opera House
SHED: EXPLODED VIEW | Director: Atri Banerjee | Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
THE EARTHWORKS | Director: Andrea Ling | Young Vic, Genesis Futures
2023
THIS MUCH I KNOW | Director: Chelsea Walker | Hampstead Theatre
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD | Director: Richard Wilson | Hampstead Theatre
YOU HEARD ME | Director: Maria Crocker | ARC Stockton
LAY DOWN YOUR BURDENS | Director: Rhiannon Faith | Barbican/ UK Tour
BROWN GIRLS DO IT TOO: MAMA TOLD ME NOT TO COME | Directors: Sam Hodges & Aneesha Srinivasan | Soho Theatre
A PLAY FOR THE LIVING IN A TIME OF EXTINCTION | Director: Katie Mitchell | Barbican/ UK Tour
WAR & CULTURE | Director: Jess Edwards | New Diorama Theatre
LITTLE SCRATCH | Director: Katie Mitchell | New Diorama Theatre
LA VOIX HUMANE | Director: Katie Mitchell | Opéra national du Rhin, France
2022
WICKIES: THE VANISHING MEN OF EILEAN MOR | Director: Shilpa T-Hyland | Park Theatre
WHEN DARKNESS FALLS | Director: Paul Morrisey | UK Tour
BROWN GIRLS DO IT TOO: MAMA TOLD ME NOT TO COME | Directors: Sam Hodges & Aneesha Srinivasan | Soho Theatre/ UK Tour
HERE | Director: George Turvey | Southwark Playhouse
TALKING ABOUT A REVOLUTION | Directors: Chinonyerem Odimba & Campbell X | tiata fahodzi
A-TYPICAL RAINBOW | Director: Bronagh Lagan | The Turbine Theatre
THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS AND THE PLATYPUS | Director: Richard Hurst & Daniel Clarkson | Polka Theatre
WE STARTED TO SING | Director: Barney Norris | Arcola Theatre
WOLF CUB | Director: Ché Walker | Hampstead Theatre
THE WOODS | Director: Russell Bolam | Southwark Playhouse
YOU HEARD ME | Director: Luca Rutherford | ARC Stockton/ UK Tour
2021
INTERRUPTIONS | Director: Guy Wolf | Jacksons Lane Theatre
LITTLE SCRATCH | Director: Katie Mitchell | Hampstead Theatre
ALBATROSS | Director: Jess Edwards | The Playground Theatre
RICE | Director: Matthew Xia | Orange Tree Theatre
WHEN DARKNESS FALLS | Director: Paul Morrissey | Park200
MADRIGAL | Director: Jaz Woodcock-Stewart | Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
TIPPING THE VELVET | Director: Carol Harvey | Mountview
2020
THE LAST HARVEST | Directors: Joel Scott & Zoe Lafferty | National Youth Theatre
TALKING HEADS | Director: Brigid Larmour | Watford Palace Theatre
2019
FITTER | Director: Jess Edwards | Soho Theatre
LITTLE BABY JESUS | Director: Tristan Fynn-Aiduene | Orange Tree Theatre
I'D RATHER GO BLIND | Director: Caroline Bryant | Omnibus Theatre
TRADE | Director: Jack McNamara | UK Tour
QUEEN OF THE MIST | Director: Dom O'Hanlon | Charing Cross Theatre
KEEP WATCHING | Director: Simon Lyshon | New Diorama Theatre
2018
THE GREAT CHRISTMAS FEAST | The Lost Estate
SWEET LIKE CHOCOLATE BOY | Director: Tristan Fynn-Aiduene | Brockley Jack
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE | Directors: Jesse Fox & George Evans | Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE CREDITS
KATHY AND STELLA SOLVE A MURDER | Associate Lighting Designer | Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival Fringe/ Bristol Old Vic/ HOME Manchester
THE MEMORY OF WATER | Lighting Programmer | Hampstead Theatre
EQUILIBRIUM - ZERO | Re-Lighter | The Place
DROWNTOWN | Harlow Playhouse
JOSEPH | The Palladium
DEATH OF A BLACK MAN | Lighting Programmer | Hampstead Theatre
THE SUNSET LIMITED | Lighting Programmer | Bouvelard Theatre
CINDERELLA | Theatre Royal, Plymouth
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS | Wimbledon Theatre
THE RITE OF SPRING | Re-Lighter | UK Tour
THE ELEXIR OF LOVE | Lighting Programmer | Norfolk Opera
BLACK MEN WALKING | Re-Lighter
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER | Windmill Theatre
THE PHLEBOTOMIST | Hampstead Theatre
COME FROM AWAY | Phoenix Theatre
SEUSSICAL | Southwark Playhouse
HAMILTON | Victoria Palace Theatre