Peter Mumford Lighting Designer

Peter Mumford originally trained as a theatre designer as Central School of Art. He then became a founder member of the mixed media performance group Moving Being who he continued to work with as a designer and lighting designer for over ten years.

He has gone on to work throughout the world designing sets, costumes and lighting for numerous companies including several of the main European opera houses and dance companies including Scottish Opera, The Royal Opera, Welsh National Opera, Munich Opera, Royal Danish Ballet, The Royal Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, and The Siobhan Davies Dance Company. He has also worked with the Almeida Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, RSC and National Theatre and many London West End venues. Among the shows he has designed both sets and lighting for are:

Parsifal Welsh National Opera
Modern Living (choreographer Jonathan Lunn) and Fidelio for Opera North
Un Ballo in Maschera (Vilinius Festival)
Foe Theatre de Complicite at West Yorkshire Playhouse then London and European tour
Two-Part Intervention for the Royal Ballet
Odysseus Thump and Touching Heaven for West Yorkshire Playhouse, the latter premièred in Tokyo

Recent work as a lighting designer includes:

Birmingham Royal Ballet:
- Edward II
- Carmina Burana
- Arthur parts I & II
Ashley Page/Royal Ballet:
- The Crucible
- Hidden Variables
- A Stranger's Taste
- This House Will Burn
Rambert Dance Company:
- Sounding
- Unrest
- The Celebrated Soubrette
Royal Court:
- Redundant
Albery Theatre, London
- Private Lives
Abbey Theatre, Dublin:
- Iphigenia
Vaudeville, London:
- God Only Knows
Queen’s Theatre, London:
- Medea
Athens Concert Hall:
- Il Corsaro
Opera Zuid, Holland:
- Don Pasquale
- Madama Butterfly
English National Opera:
- The Coronation of Poppea
- Falstaff
- Die Soldaten
Siobhan Davies Dance Company:
- Of Oil and Water
- Eighty Eight Keys
Sadler's Wells
- Irek Mukhamedov and Dancers
Royal Exchange, Manchester
- The Dispute & The Critic
Shaftesbury Theatre:
- Lautrec
Acropol Theatre, Athens:
- I Laskarina
Opera North:
- Eugene Onegin
- Madama Butterfly
Opera De Bordeaux:
- Guilio Cesare
Stuttgart Ballet:
- Edward II
Royal National Theatre:
- The Invention of Love
- Stanley
- Summerfolk
- The Merchant of Venice
- Money
- Volpone
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Luther
Royal Shakespeare Company:
- Hamlet
- Othello
- The Ladies
- Goodnight Children Everywhere
Gate Theatre, Dublin:
- A Long Day's Journey Into Night
- An Ideal Husband
- Oliver Twist
- Therese Raquin

In the past he has directed Brecht's Jasager/Neinsager in Cardiff and also a production of Heiner Muller's Hamletmachine and The Man Who Strides The Wind an opera by Kevin Volans at The Almeida. More recently he directed and designed the European premiere of Earth and The Great Weather by John Luther Adams for the Almeida Opera 2000 season. Recently he designed sets and lighting for Un Ballo In Maschera for the Vilnius Festival.

Film/TV work this year includes directing 24 short films for the BBC2 series Forty Eight Preludes and Fugues (J S Bach) and he was lighting director for the other 24 films in the series. He was also Director of Photography for a new TV film version of Jenufa entitled The Stepdaughter for BBC2.

In the past his work as a TV/film director has won both the Opera Screen and Dance Screen Awards and his TV adaptation of Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake was nominated for an Emmy. His production company Dancelines achieved much ground breaking work in the area of dance television in the early days of C4 and then later on BBC2.

He was winner of the 1995 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for his work on The Glass Blew In for Siobhan Davies Dance Company and Fearful Symmetries for the Royal Ballet and nominated Best Lighting Designer in 2000.

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