Tim Mitchell

Lighting Associates

Award winning multi nominated international lighting designer working across all all forms of entertainment lighting design

Current Productions

Singing in the Rain – Japan, UK tour

The Play What I Wrote – UK tour

Sister Act – UK Tour

We Will Rock You – International Tour

Snowman – London

La Gioconda – Grange Park Opera

The Excursions of Mr Broucek – Grange Park Opera

Pressure – Toronto

She Loves You – Copenhagen

About Me

Tim is a freelance lighting designer working on all aspects of lighting design, including drama, opera, ballet, musical theatre and immersive experiences. He has been nominated and won awards for his work at home and internationally and is a holder of the Knight of Illumination Award.

His designs have been seen on Broadway, West End and across the world. Tim is an Associate Artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company where he has lit over 50 productions and he is also proud to be a fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Speech and Drama. Tim is a long-time member of the ALPD and United Scenic Artists. He is an advocate for the sustainability in the arts industry and finding new ways of it becoming greener.

Tim has collaborated with some of the best story tellers in the industry and at the heart of his work is always the story. 

Past Productions

Reviews

Whatsonstage

“Tim Mitchell’s lighting especially good design are all terrific”

Singing in the Rain- World wide

AussieTheatre.com

“Made a technical conundrum seem like a non-issue and was enhanced by Tim Mitchell’s lighting design.

Broadway Ballet performance came to life thanks to the bright neon signs and colourful light backdrop by Tim Mitchell (Lighting Designer)”.

Singing in the Rain- World wide

Financial Times

“The Wells stage appears twice its usual size thanks to strong, intelligent lighting from Tim Mitchell that guides us around the handsome, uncomplicated set. It allows rapid-fire scene changes”

Singing in the Rain- World wide

Melbourne online

“Tim Mitchell’s lighting is an integral part of the design, with backlit panels throughout the backdrop and solidly constructed legs. Lighting is also carefully placed to maximize the visual impact of the rain”.

 

Singing in the Rain- World wide

Whatsonstage

“Designer Alice Power and lighting designer Tim Mitchell also use their skills to ramp up the humour”

Play What I wrote

Online theatre Review. Theatre fan.com

“The staging of this show is simple yet effective, littered with visual gags, aided by clever lighting choices by lighting designer Tim Mitchell”.

Play What I wrote

Opera Today

“Sea and sky merge magically on the tall side-flats, just as the real and fantastic blend in the action, and sunny noon fades to evocative night (lighting design, Tim Mitchell)”.

HMS Pinafore ENO

The Article

“Greek designer Takis, superb lighting by Tim Mitchell, and Lizzi Gee’s choreography were all a delight”.

HMS Pinafore ENO

Seen and Heard International

“Colour to fill the huge stage of ENO – Tim Mitchell’s changing lighting”

HMS Pinafore ENO

Opera Today

“The bold lighting from Tim Mitchell picked out moments of action, flickering then blinding changes confusing and dazzling, like the war itself”

Force of Destiny ENO

Plays to See

“The production also afforded the set designer a broad canvas in which to let rip. And they did just that coming up with some amazing stuff, mostly dominated by a grand, ducal-type, war-torn palace. Admirably complemented by Tim Mitchell’s lighting and Ingo Krügler’s costumes, the overall stage picture was bleak and unattractive highlighting a country at unease with itself.”

 

Force of Destiny ENO

The Guardian

“His final sets and costumes (with lighting by Tim Mitchell) may elicit the most enduring pleasure”

 

 

Iolanthe ENO

Opera Review

“House of Lords, all Pugin high gothic carved wood and red velvet. Delightfully silly stuff and given the perfect flush of lighting from Tim Mitchell with flashes of period references”.

 “Paul Brown’s design is beautiful. A Luxuriant floral, warmly illuminated by Tim Mitchell”

Iolanthe ENO

The Guardian

“it is superbly lit by Tim Mitchell who creates astonishing images through diagonal lighting or fierce overhead wattage”

Richard III

Online

“lit with its own distinctive bite by Tim Mitchell to the alternately ceremonial and elegiac strains of Julian Philips’ original score

Richard III

London Theatre

“Doran’s direction is very true to Miller’s words, though it is very often difficult to differentiate between what is present and what is a flashback. Though there are lighting changes (the play is lit very well by Tim Mitchell)” 

Death of Salesman RSC

British Theatre.com

“The lighting by Tim Mitchell reinforced a film noir feel to proceedings”

Death of Salesman RSC

Financial Times

“Set and Lighting designer Tim Mitchell deploy trapdoors and gentle magnolia washes to transport us to assorted inhabitants between-lives streams”

Death of Salesman RSC

Whatsonstage

“Tim Mitchell’s lighting and Paul Englishby’s superb, jazzy and lyrical music come as close to those details, without cravenly reproducing them, as in any production I’ve seen”.

 

Death of Salesman RSC

The Guardian

“Willy’s jagged excursions into the past and is reinforced by Tim Mitchell’s lighting which gives the set a sudden transparency as we go inside Willy’s head”.

Death of Salesman RSC

The Kirkville

“Tim Mitchell’s excellent lighting helps shift the scene from the present to the past, focusing on each section of the stage as necessary”.

Death of Salesman RSC

The Times

“with only his Fool for company, as the rain (conveyed by Tim Mitchell’s lighting effects) swirls around him and he rages like a biblical Elijah”

“Tim Mitchell’s lighting, not to say lightning, gives us an ever-changing atmosphere”.

King Lear RSC

The Guardian

“Tim Mitchell’s lighting creates ecclesiastical arches that seem to grow out of a briar-scored sky”.

Henry V RSC

The Arts desk

“Lighting designer Tim Mitchell’s ’s wonderfully suggestive transformations in outdoor atmospheres and colour (storms, explosions, woods)”

Henry V RSC

Stage Reviews.com

The shimmering set design and costumes look fabulous, Tim Mitchell’s lighting adds atmosphere aplenty. With imposing performances from noblemen and peasants alike, it’s a Henry that sits well within the long line of Stratford greats

Henry V RSC

The Younger theatre.com

“The set is both intimate and grand, the lighting design of Tim Mitchell transporting us from majestic cathedral to royal bedchamber”.

Henry IV-RSC

British theatre.com

“Tim Mitchell’s lighting is truly excellent, adding depth and perspective, and true style, to many of the scenes”.

Henry IV-RSC

Stage Reviews.com

“There’s decaying elegance in the stunning designs and Tim Mitchell’s unobtrusive lighting”

Henry IV-RSC

Daily Telegraph

“Tim Mitchell’s exquisite lighting makes virtuoso use of shadow and Matthew Scott’s nerve-twanging score is the musical embodiment of dread”.

Taken at Midnight West end Haymarket Theatre

Daily Mail

“Tim Mitchell’s dramatic lighting design opens with a shaft of angled light illustrating a prison corridor on a largely bare stage”.

Taken at Midnight West end Haymarket Theatre

Stage Reviews.com

“The gorgeous design gives us greenhouses, great halls and artists’ boudoirs with all the handsome panache of the era. Lighting designer Tim Mitchell shows them all off to beautiful advantage”

 

Twelth Night RSC

Theatre Review

“beautifully lit by Tim Mitchell, makes a stunning impact”

Happy Days- Riverside Studios

The Times

The time has created a blasted heathland underneath streaks of yellow, dusty sky that resemble the latest images sent back from the surface of Mars. Tim Mitchell’s austere lighting augment the otherworldly atmosphere”

Happy Days- Riverside Studios

 “Tim Mitchell’s lighting also come to the fore in the second half, as an eerie echo resonates from Winnie and a ghostly light illuminates her deathly face.”

Broadway World

The Colour Palette and Subtle unusual atmosphere created by Tim Mitchell’s Lighting effects, perfectly accompanies the plays exigences”

Westend online

“The first and second halves are made magnificently different – by Dwan and by Tim Mitchell’s spectacular lighting”

The Guardian

Broadway World

“Tim Mitchell (Lighting Designer). It is very apparent that this production is an extremely collaborative piece of theatre and all creatives have excelled in pulling together to achieve this.”

Dirty Dancing- World Wide

Behind the arras .com

“All Helped by an impressive lighting design from Tim Mitchell”

Dirty Dancing- World Wide

The Washingtonian

“Lighting designer Tim Mitchell deserve kudos for creating magic with scrims and spots to reproduce summer in the Catskills complete with mountain views, glorious sunsets, and sudden showers.”

Whatsonstage.com

“A special mention must go to Tim Mitchell, for a stunning lighting design”

Orlando Weekly

“Tim Mitchell’s dynamic lighting turning makes scene changes feel like film cuts”

The Guardian

“Tim Mitchell , whose skills with lighting and scrims shuffle the action adroitly between different scenes and time zones”.

Great Gatsby- Northern Ballet

The Daily Mirror

“Generally, the set and costumes are simple and unfussy but Tim Mitchell’s effective lighting create a haunting atmosphere”

The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas-Northern Ballet

The Times

“Tim Mitchell’s subtle lighting adds to the effect of a magical underwater world where sea men and women waft and ripple and surge in aqueous-coloured skirts”.

“Kudos, too, for Tim Mitchell’s radiant lighting”.

The Little Mermaid-Northern Ballet

The Times

“Tim Mitchell’s lighting is gorgeous and sun-baked”

Cleopatra- Northern Ballet

The Times

“The charged atmosphere is enhanced by Tim Mitchell’s lighting design”

Pressure- Edinburgh

The Times

“Tim Mitchell (lighting) provide a perfect setting for her fresh, lively direction of a sympathetic young cast”

La Boheme- Welsh National Opera

The Times

Tim Mitchell, devises a spectacular star-spangled backdrop, inspired by Schinkel’s famous drop for the Queen of Night’s scenes in his Berlin production of The Magic Flute

Ariadne auf Naxos- Welsh National Opera

The Times

The players’ dumb-show is very funny, the music perfect, Tim Mitchell’s lighting design nonpareil — vanishing arches, stars, bars of light converging towards infinity, pitch-black moments and eerily lit faces

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead- Chichester

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