JON CLARK

He studied theatre design at Bretton Hall, Leeds University. He has worked extensively in the West End and on Broadway. Internationally his designs have been seen at the MET (New York), Sydney Opera House and throughout Europe. He won an Olivier and Tony Award for The Lehman Trilogy on West End / Broadway, and an Olivier Award for The Inheritance. Designs for opera include Hamlet (Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne), Macbeth (Palau de les Arts, Valencia), Lucia di Lammermoor (Greek National Opera, Athens), The Queen of Spades (Bavarian State Opera), Adès’ The Exterminating Angel (Salzburg Festival, Royal Opera House, MET, Copenhagen), Benjamin’s Written On Skin (Royal Opera House, Aix-en-Provence, Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Moscow, New York), Thomas’ Hamlet (Glyndebourne), Chabrier’s L’Étoile (Royal Opera House), Szymanowski’s Król Roger (Royal Opera House, Opera Australia). He has also lit for ENO such operas as The Turn of The Screw, Orpheus and Eurydice, Wigglesworth’s The Winter’s Tale, La bohème (also Amsterdam), Wozzeck, Glass’ The Perfect American (also Madrid).