MICHAEL NABARRO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Chairman of the Lumiere Scheme Working Group
- Working Group Chair
Charlotte is Chair of the Lumiere Scheme Working Group, for which she was the first recipient of funding through the scheme in 2015.
She is now leading the team looking to establish it as a long term project that can attract funding for future opportunities for developing artists.
Job Titles:
- Designer
- Director
- Lighting Designer
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- Director
- Lighting Designer
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- Choreographer
- Set Designer
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professional Representative
David is an elected director and board member. He works as a programmer for theatre and opera, and a console trainer for ETC.
As the professional representative for those not working as designers - he is the point of contact for production electricians, programmers, technicians, touring crew, venue staff etc.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Lighting Designer
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Students Representative
Jack's role is to act as a point of contact for current and future students of live performance lighting and video and to help them find their bearings in the ALD membership and also the world of work.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Working Group Chair
Jai chairs the Diversity (Representation & Inclusion) Working Group which is investigating how to remove the barriers of the structural inequality within our industry to enable anyone who wishes to make a career in live performance lighting or projection.
He is also the appointed contact for queries about our Stage Sight related work, initiatives, case studies and/or other related enquiries.
John Hopkins is a perfect M, ridiculously polite, howling with anguish and blinking his confusion at the spotlight, which switches the characters on and off with the finality of a remote control...
Job Titles:
- Designer
- Director
- Set Designer
Katharine Williams provides another of her excellent lighting designs.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Editor of Focus Magazine
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- Choreographer
- Lighting Designer
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professional Representative
Lucy is an elected director and board member. She is the point of contact for any professional or affiliate members that are working as designers.
She is also Chair of the Professional Working Practice working group which is responsible for developing documents to guide members and their clients in what to expect from each other.
Designer Lucy Sierra opts for a minimalistic set which works perfectly with Katharine Williams' lighting design, emphasising the piece's filmic style and firmly putting the focus on the performers.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Chair of the Executive Committee
Mark is an elected director and board member until the 2021 AGM.
A busy international lighting designer, Mark also acts as Deputy Chair, and writes a popular column in Focus each edition.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Treasurer
Mark is an elected director and board member until the 2021 AGM.
He became Treasurer in 2014 and brings with him a wealth of experience of from his time as treasurer of the Showlight Quadrennial symposium of light and Chair of the Association of British Theatre Technicians.
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- Director
- Lighting Designer
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Education Representative
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- BECTU Representative
Nick acts as the ALD contact with BECTU, representing the interests of our members within the union.
Peter is a former ALD Chair from 2011 - 2017 and now has an overview of the work of the Executive and the development of the Association.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Lighting Designer
Job Titles:
- Director
- Lighting Designer
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- Costume Designer
- Set Designer
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President
Richard is member #1 and helped to set up both the ALD and its forerunner, the Society of British Theatre Lighting Designers, in 1961.
Previously a chairman of the ALD, he now maintains his links and input into the association as its President.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice President
Rick is an elected director and board member until the 2023 AGM.
Job Titles:
- Designer
- Lighting Designer
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Working Group Chair
Sofia leads the ALD Awards working group that organises the various awards the Association is involved in. This includes both our well regarded Michael Northen Bursary and the Lightmongers' Award for Entertainment Lighting Design.
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- Designer
- Lighting Designer
Steve is an elected director and board member until the 2023 AGM.
Having worked in Technical Theatre Higher Education for over 20 years, he serves on the Awards working group.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Companies' Representative
- Company Members
Stuart is an elected director and board member until the 2021 AGM.
With over 25 years of experience in the industry, Stuart is company members' representative and acts as a contact point for all the Corporate, Commercial and Non-profit members of the ALD helping to connect them with our individual members to offer meetings, training and other benefits.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Working Group Chair
Tom is chair of the the ALD's Sustainability Working Group. Our art uses many elements and resources that are at the heart of the sustainability debate. We must acknowledge that the way we work will have to change.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Equity Representative
Zoe acts as the ALD contact with the Equity Directors and Designers committee and as part of this represents lighting designers' interests within their union. Her current term runs through until mid-2021. If you have specific Equity enquiries - equity@ald.org.uk