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Paul Pyant (born 22 July 1953) is a British lighting designer, whose designs have been featured in the

Olivier Awards and Tony Awards, winning the Olivier in 2014 for his design for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
.

Life and career

Pyant's parents are Leonard Vincent Pyant, a business executive, and Jean Phoebe née Frampton, a medical secretary. He graduated from the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1973 and is an associate of the Academy.[1]

Musical theatre

His credits in Britain include numerous West End productions and many productions with

The Lord of the Rings (2008)[6] and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2014). He won the Olivier for the last of these.[7] The RNT production of Othello played an engagement in Brooklyn, New York in 1998. Ben Brantley, in The New York Times, wrote that Pyant's lighting for this production was "exquisite".[8] Pyant's lighting design for the 2010 West End production of Waiting for Godot was called "lyrical".[9]

He has also designed lighting for productions of the Donmar Warehouse in London since its opening. For the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has lit productions of Richard III, The Tempest, The Painter of Dishonour and Julius Caesar. As one of the creative members of the Sam Mendes "Bridge Project", he designed the lighting for As You Like It and The Tempest, which played in repertory at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and The Old Vic in 2010. Pyant commented on working on the two productions: "You know going into the project that these are two very different productions to light."[10] For the Chichester Festival Theatre, he designed the lighting for productions in 2005, 2007 and 2008, including The Scarlet Letter and King Lear.[11]

His designs have been seen on Broadway in

Tony Award, Best Lighting Design, for Orpheus Descending[12] and Arcadia,[13] and received nominations for Drama Desk Awards for lighting for Carousel[14] and the Sam Mendes "Bridge Project" production of The Winter's Tale (2009).[15]

Opera and ballet

Pyant's extensive opera credits include lighting designs for the premiere of

Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg and elsewhere. He has designed ten productions for the Houston Grand Opera, including Rigoletto and most recently Handel's Xerxes in 2010.[16]

His designs for ballet include productions by the English National Ballet, Northern Ballet, The Norwegian National Ballet, The Royal New Zealand Ballet, Boston Ballet and Atlanta Ballet. He designed the lighting for The Snow Queen for the English National Ballet in 2010, with The Stage reviewer Gavin Roebuck noting "Paul Pyant magically lights these and the dazzling ice scape."[17]

References

  1. ^ "Paul Pyant: Lighting Designer" Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. The Lord of the Rings – On Stage. Retrieved 5 January 2010
  2. ^ "Olivier Winners 1991". Officiallondontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2011
  3. ^ "Olivier Winners 2001" Archived 11 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Officiallondontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2011
  4. ^ "Olivier Winners 2003" Archived 11 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Officiallondontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2011
  5. ^ "Olivier Winners 2005" Archived 24 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Officiallondontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2011
  6. ^ "Olivier Winners 2008" Archived 24 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Officiallondontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2011
  7. ^ "Olivier Winners 2014", Olivierawards.com. Retrieved 3 April 2015
  8. ISBN 0-8153-3341-2
    , p. 268
  9. ^ "'Waiting for Godot' Review" Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Time Out, 28 January 2010
  10. ^ Lampert-Gréaux, Ellen. "Love, Valour, And Passion: The Bridge Project" Live Design, 12 July 2010
  11. ^ "Pyant work at Chichester" Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Chichester Festival Theatre. Retrieved 7 January 2011
  12. ^ "'Orpheus Descending' Tony Awards, 1990 (Search Past Winners)". tonyawards.com. Retrieved 7 January 2011
  13. ^ "'Arcadia' Tony Awards, 1995" (Search Past Winners), tonyawards.com. Retrieved 7 January 2011
  14. ^ "1993–1994 40th Drama Desk Awards" Archived 4 July 2008 at archive.today, dramadesk.com. Retrieved 7 January 2011
  15. ^ "2008–2009 54th Drama Desk Awards" Archived 15 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine. dramadesk.com. Retrieved 7 January 2011
  16. ^ "Press Release, Handel’s 'Xerxes'" Archived 6 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine Houston Grand Opera, 8 April 2010
  17. ^ Roebuck, Gavin. "Review: The Snow Queen". The Stage, 11 January 2010

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