About me

Hello! I’m Robbie. I'm a lighting designer originally from Ireland working mainly in the UK and throughout Europe.

After graduating from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, I spent the majority of my early career working as a technician with companies such as Cirque Du Soleil, The Old Vic Theatre, and Disney.

From there I began designing projects of my own on the fringe and have since grown to design productions for Welsh National Opera, The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, The English Theatre Frankfurt, Theatre by the Lake, Nottingham Playhouse, Watford Palace Theatre, The Unicorn Theatre, The Marlowe Theatre, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and The Octagon Theatre Bolton to name but a few.

​Further credits include collaborations with the Wardrobe Ensemble, Tarento Productions, The Orwell Foundation and Abandoman.

​​I am always interested in collaborating on exciting and engaging new productions in circus, theatre, music and opera.

Education

BA Production Technology and Management - The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 

Awards 

I was the winner of the 2015 ETC Award from the ALPD and the 2022 Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design. I also have received two further Offie nominations for best lighting design.

Affiliations

I am one of only a handful of people to have been made a life member of the Association for Lighting Production and Design and have previously sat as the chair of Equity’s Directors and Designers Committee.

In 2018, I was a leading figure in the #SaveStageLighting campaign: an international drive which sought to safeguard the accessibility to the lighting instruments and equipment that are most commonly used in theatres across Europe from proposed changes to EU law.

I am a member of Ecologi and help to fund carbon avoidance projects and reforestation. I plant 16 trees every month and avoid 18 Tonnes of CO2 every year. Sign up at ecologi.com.