Paule Constable
Associate Artist, Lighting Designer
Overview
Paule is an Associate Director of the National Theatre, an Associate of the Lyric Hammersmith and for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures. She has been nominated for eight Olivier Awards and for the 2018 Tony Award for Angels in America, the 2015 for Wolf Hall and the 2013 Tony Award for The Cripple of Inishmaan. She has received three Critics Circle Awards in LA and two in New York along with two Drama Desk Awards. She received the Hospital Award for contribution to theatre and was the first recipient of the Opera Award for Lighting in 2013. She has also received the Knight of Illumination Award three times. She is a Fellow of Goldsmiths College and an honorary fellow of Rose Bruford College and Central School of Speech and Drama. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Rayne Award for her contribution to the National Theatre.
For New Adventures:
Paule Constable is an Associate Artist for New Adventures.
She has designed the lighting for The Midnight Bell, Swan Lake, The Red Shoes, Sleeping Beauty, Dorian Gray, Play Without Words, Romeo and Juliet.
Theatre includes:The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Chichester Festival Theatre), My Master Builder (West End), Oliver! (Chichester Festival Theatre & West End) Ballet Shoes, Nye, Til the Stars Come Down, The Confessions, The Normal Heart, Follies, Angels in America(Parts I & II) (also Broadway), This House, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (also West End & Broadway), War Horse (also West End, Toronto, Australia, US tour & Broadway) (National Theatre); Guys and Dolls (The Bridge),Drive Your Plow Over the Boes of the Dead (Complicite), The Weir (also West End & Broadway), (Royal Court); Ivanov (Donmar at the Wyndhams and Herons(Lyric Hammersmith).
Opera includes:The Magic Flute, Macbeth (Royal Opera House); Billy Budd (Glyndebourne); Handmaids Tale and Satyagraha (ENO); Norma and Medea (Metropolitan Opera, New York).
Dance includes: Light: Bach Dances (Hofesh Schecter), La Baiser de la Fe (Birmingham Royal Ballet); Naked (Ballet Boyz).
Awards include: 6 Olivier Awards for Best Lighting - Oliver!, Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Chalk Garden, Don Carlos & His Dark Materials , 2 Tony Awards for Best Lighting - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time & War Horse , 3 Knight of Illumination Awards - Follies, Barnum & St Joan.
Paule is a Royal Designer for Industry.