Simon Bennison
Lighting Designer
Awards
2022 - South Bank Awards - Best New Dance Piece for The Dante Project
2021 - National Dance Critics Awards - Best Classical Choreography for Anemoi
2021 - South Bank Awards - Best New Dance Piece for Scherzo
British lighting designer Simon Bennison is from Manchester and has trained in lighting, architecture and music at UCL, Yale, Surrey and RADA . Simon was Lighting Associate for the Royal Opera House until 2022.
“How it is Part 2 - Coronet Theatre
They stalk around, aided by Simon Bennison’s pierced lighting. Footlights glare back at us, illumine performers, strips of light fade or intensify.”
“How it is Part 2 - Coronet Theatre
Lighting designer Simon Bennison’s muted spotlights refract upon the array of shining percussion instruments filling the otherwise bare stage. ”
“The Dante Project - Royal Opera House
Together with brilliant lighting effects this creates a complete and coherent world of its own and could stand as an independent ballet.”
Gallery
2025
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Chroma | San Francisco Ballet, Chor. Wayne McGregor |
2024
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Waiting for Godot | Geffen Playhouse, Dir. Judy Hegarty Lovett |
| Encounters (Or Forevermore & Dusk) | Royal Ballet & Opera, Chroeorgraphy Pam Tanowitz, Joesph Toonga |
| Shades Through A Shade | Dublin Theatre Festival, Dir. Judy Hegarty Lovett |
| The Beckett Trilogy | The Coronet Theatre, Dir. Judy Hegarty Lovett |
| The Magic Flute | Sofia National Opera, Dir. Vera Petrova |
| Woolf Works | Segerstrom Centre, California, Dir. Wayne McGregor, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter, Associate Lighting Des. Simon Bennison |
2023
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| The Realistic Joneses | Gare St Lazare & Rubicon Theatre, LA, Dir. Judy Hegarty Lovett |
| Carlos at 50 | The Royal Opera House, Lighting Designs Revived by Simon Bennison |
| Prometheus Poem of Fire | The Royal Festival Hall with The Philharmonia Orchestra |
2022
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Nureyev Legend & Legacy | Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Chors. Rudolf Nureyev, Marius Petipa, August Bournonville, John Neumeier | How it is Part 2 | Gare St Lazare, Dir. Judy Hegarty Lovett | Dido & Aeneas | Theatre Royal Bath - Ustinov Studio, Dir. Isabelle Kettle | The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration | The Royal Opera House - Lighting designed by Simon Bennison: For Four, chor. Chris Wheeldon; See Us, chor. Joseph Toonga; Dispatches Duet, chor. Pam Tanowitz; Concerto pour Deux, chor. Benoit Swan Pouffer; Prima, chor. Valentino Zucchetti |
2021
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Anemoi | Royal Ballet |
| Agnes Dei | Royal Ballet (Film) |
| The Dante Project Part 1 | Royal Ballet Chor. Wayne McGregor, Co Lighting Des. Lucy Carter & Simon Bennison |
2020
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Scherzo | Royal Ballet |
| Dance of the Blessed Spirit | Royal Ballet |
| Happy Days | National Theatre, Oslo |
2019
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| The Lady from the Sea | Print Room at The Coronet |
| Krenket (Disgraced) | National Theatret, Oslo |
2017
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Eugene Onegin | Rhosygilwen Opera |
| The Cunning Little Vixen | Byre Opera | Jenufa (Revival) | Royal Swedish Opera, Original Dir. Annilese Miskimmon |
2016
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| La Voix Humaine | The Forge, Camden |