About
Rory is a freelance lighting designer whose work spans West End, Regional and UK Touring productions as well as projects overseas.
Rory recently won the Broadway World award for Best Lighting Design for his work on “The Lord of the Rings” and is a WhatsOnStage award nominee for his work on the West End production of “The Time Traveller’s Wife” musical.
West End credits include: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy (Garrick & Apollo); The Time Traveller’s Wife Musical (Apollo); The Merchant of Venice 1936 (Criterion & Trafalgar); Wild About You (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Your Lie In April (Harold Pinter); Death Drop: Back in the Habit (Garrick); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! (Coliseum); Instructions For A Teenage Armageddon (Garrick).
Other select credits include: The Lord of the Rings (Chicago, New Zealand, Australia, Shanghai & Watermill); The Merchant of Venice 1936 (Royal Shakespeare Company, West End and UK Tour); Starter for Ten (Bristol Old Vic); Jews. In Their Own Words & For Black Boys… (Royal Court, London); Pins & Needles (Kiln); Lovely Ugly City (Almeida); The Creakers (Theatre Royal Plymouth); Unexpected Twist (UK Tour); Spike, Kiss Me Kate (Watermill); 70 Års Opera (Danish National Opera); Macbeth, La Bohème, Elizabeth I, Dido & Aeneas, Radamisto (English Touring Opera); West End Producer - Free Willy! (Cuffe & Taylor); Principles of Deception (Ali Cook); 60 Miles by Road or Rail (Royal & Derngate); Summer Holiday, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Bolton Octagon); Half Empty Glasses, A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain, The Ultimate Pickle (Paines Plough);Midsummer (Mercury Colchester); Dishoom! (UK Tour); Spike (UK Tour); Marx in London! (Scottish Opera).
A comprehensive list of credits can be found on the credits page.
Awards:
WhatsOnStage Award nomination for Best Lighting Design for The Time Traveller’s Wife
Broadway World Award for Best Lighting Designer for The Lord of the Rings
Knight of Illumination Award nomination for Opera Nomination - Cosí fan tutte, Opera Holland Park
Off West End Award nomination for Best Lighting - Dumbledore Is So Gay, Southwark Playhouse
UK Pantomime Award nomination for Best Lighting - Aladdin, New Theatre Cardiff
New Talent in Entertainment Lighting, Presented by the Workshop Company of Lightmongers
Michael Northen Award, Presented by the Association of Lighting Designers
“The lighting is astounding.”
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“Rory Beaton triumphs... so many moments pop with lighting”