Bethany Gupwell

Lighting Designer

First Class BA Honours In Lighting Design at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Awards and Nominations

2023 Offies Nomination for Best Lighting Design for This Much I Know

2022 Offies Nomination for Best Lighting Design for A-Typical Rainbow

2019 Offie Award nomination for Best Lighting Design for Queen Of The Mist

2018  Francis Reid Award of the Association of Lighting Designers

List Of Productions

2024

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL | Director: Chelsea Walker | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

ROBIN HOOD | Director: Jenni Jackson | Theatre Royal Bath, The Egg

QUIET SONGS | Director: Finn Beames | Barbican

LADY DEALER | Director: Emily Aboud | Bush Theatre

VISIT FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN | Hampstead Theatre

LARMES DE COUTEAU/ FULL MOON IN MARCH | Directors: Eleanor Burke & Harriet Taylor | Royal Opera House

SHED: EXPLODED VIEW | Director: Atri Banerjee | Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

THE EARTHWORKS | Director: Andrea Ling | Young Vic, Genesis Futures

2023

THIS MUCH I KNOW | Director: Chelsea Walker | Hampstead Theatre

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD | Director: Richard Wilson | Hampstead Theatre

YOU HEARD ME | Director: Maria Crocker | ARC Stockton

LAY DOWN YOUR BURDENS | Director: Rhiannon Faith | Barbican/ UK Tour

BROWN GIRLS DO IT TOO: MAMA TOLD ME NOT TO COME | Directors: Sam Hodges & Aneesha Srinivasan | Soho Theatre

A PLAY FOR THE LIVING IN A TIME OF EXTINCTION | Director: Katie Mitchell | Barbican/ UK Tour

WAR & CULTURE | Director: Jess Edwards | New Diorama Theatre

LITTLE SCRATCH | Director: Katie Mitchell | New Diorama Theatre

LA VOIX HUMANE | Director: Katie Mitchell | Opéra national du Rhin, France

2022

WICKIES: THE VANISHING MEN OF EILEAN MOR | Director: Shilpa T-Hyland | Park Theatre

WHEN DARKNESS FALLS | Director: Paul Morrisey | UK Tour

BROWN GIRLS DO IT TOO: MAMA TOLD ME NOT TO COME | Directors: Sam Hodges & Aneesha Srinivasan | Soho Theatre/ UK Tour

HERE | Director: George Turvey | Southwark Playhouse

TALKING ABOUT A REVOLUTION | Directors: Chinonyerem Odimba & Campbell X | tiata fahodzi

A-TYPICAL RAINBOW | Director: Bronagh Lagan | The Turbine Theatre

THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS AND THE PLATYPUS | Director: Richard Hurst & Daniel Clarkson | Polka Theatre

WE STARTED TO SING | Director: Barney Norris | Arcola Theatre

WOLF CUB | Director: Ché Walker | Hampstead Theatre

THE WOODS | Director: Russell Bolam | Southwark Playhouse

YOU HEARD ME | Director: Luca Rutherford | ARC Stockton/ UK Tour

2021

INTERRUPTIONS | Director: Guy Wolf | Jacksons Lane Theatre

LITTLE SCRATCH | Director: Katie Mitchell | Hampstead Theatre

ALBATROSS | Director: Jess Edwards | The Playground Theatre

RICE | Director: Matthew Xia | Orange Tree Theatre

WHEN DARKNESS FALLS | Director: Paul Morrissey | Park200

MADRIGAL | Director: Jaz Woodcock-Stewart | Royal Central School of Speech & Drama

TIPPING THE VELVET | Director: Carol Harvey | Mountview

2020

THE LAST HARVEST | Directors: Joel Scott & Zoe Lafferty | National Youth Theatre

TALKING HEADS | Director: Brigid Larmour | Watford Palace Theatre

2019

FITTER | Director: Jess Edwards | Soho Theatre

LITTLE BABY JESUS | Director: Tristan Fynn-Aiduene | Orange Tree Theatre

I'D RATHER GO BLIND | Director: Caroline Bryant | Omnibus Theatre

TRADE | Director: Jack McNamara | UK Tour

QUEEN OF THE MIST | Director: Dom O'Hanlon | Charing Cross Theatre

KEEP WATCHING | Director: Simon Lyshon | New Diorama Theatre

2018

THE GREAT CHRISTMAS FEAST | The Lost Estate

SWEET LIKE CHOCOLATE BOY | Director: Tristan Fynn-Aiduene | Brockley Jack

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE | Directors: Jesse Fox & George Evans | Royal Central School of Speech & Drama

ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE CREDITS

KATHY AND STELLA SOLVE A MURDER | Associate Lighting Designer | Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival Fringe/ Bristol Old Vic/ HOME Manchester

THE MEMORY OF WATER | Lighting Programmer | Hampstead Theatre

EQUILIBRIUM - ZERO | Re-Lighter | The Place

DROWNTOWN | Harlow Playhouse

JOSEPH | The Palladium

DEATH OF A BLACK MAN | Lighting Programmer | Hampstead Theatre

THE SUNSET LIMITED | Lighting Programmer | Bouvelard Theatre

CINDERELLA | Theatre Royal, Plymouth

HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS | Wimbledon Theatre

THE RITE OF SPRING | Re-Lighter | UK Tour

THE ELEXIR OF LOVE | Lighting Programmer | Norfolk Opera

BLACK MEN WALKING | Re-Lighter

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER | Windmill Theatre

THE PHLEBOTOMIST | Hampstead Theatre

COME FROM AWAY | Phoenix Theatre

SEUSSICAL | Southwark Playhouse

HAMILTON | Victoria Palace Theatre