GAVIN OWEN - CONSULTANT
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Main Responsibilities
To provide project management and consultancy on all aspects of theatre design, specialising in the stagelighting and audiovisual systems for the performing arts.

Qualifications
B.A (hons) in Performance Management, Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds.
City & Guilds 236 Electrical Installation Part 1.
Troll Dallantz Rigging at Height and Rope Access.
Associate member of Association of British Theatre Technicians.
Professional member of the Association of Lighting Designers.
First Aid at Work Qualified.

Experience
Two years as a theatre consultant, twelve years as theatre practitioner including four years as a member of lighting department at the Royal Court Theatre, London, three years as Deputy Chief Electrician at the Palace Theatre, Watford.

Experience as a freelance technician in London and theatres nationally.

Teaching
Lighting and Sound Techniques – Palace Theatre, Education Department, Watford

Lighting Design
Heartbeat Riddim Chant directed by David Hamilton (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds)
Gypsy of Chelsea directed by Julian Tutt-Rhind (Studio 54, New York)
A Kind of Alaska and A Slight Ache by Harold Pinter, Gate Theatre Notting Hill directed by Thea Sharrock and Claire Lovett
The Weather, Bear Hug, The One with the Oven, Just a Bloke, Night Owls, Kingswood Kids, Porcelain, The Canvas and Sugar all for the Royal Court.
The Maid’s Tradgedy, White Bear, directed by Claire Lovett
Break Away, Finborough Theatre, directed by Claire Lovett
Cross Purpose (Union Theatre)
The Matchgirls and Mack and Mabel (Palace Theatre, Watford)
Splinters; My Passionate Madness (Massa Dance Co)
Blue Murder and Jackknife (Telltale Theatre Co).

Associate lighting designs include; Hitchcock Blonde, Lyric Theatre, directed by Terry Johnson, lighting by Simon Corder; Lucky Dog, Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by James MacDonald, lighting by Jean Kalman.

Design and installation of architectural lighting for Rider’s Bar, Farringdon.

Consultancy Work
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Folkestone Arts and Business Centre, Folkestone; Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool; Young Vic Theatre, London; Roundhouse, London; St Edwards School, Oxford; RSC Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; National Theatre Studio, London.