Hansjorg Schmidt

Hansjorg Schmidt

20232023

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Hansjörg is a lighting designer, working regularly with a group of UK based practitioners, artists and theatre companies. He is Deputy Director of Production Arts at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. From May 2010 to June 2023, he ran the BA (Hons) Lighting Design and then the MA Light in Performance at Rose Bruford College.

 

Some recent designs and collaborations (2019-2023): Shooting Hedda Gabler (Rose Theatre, Kigston), Black Saint and the Sinner Lady and Snow (clod ensemble), SHARP (with Roger Kneebone/Imperial College), First Touch (Nottingham Playhouse), The Sky Is Filled with Thunder and We Are Not Finished (fevered sleep), This Is My Room and On The High Road (clod ensemble), Dido and Aeneas (Stormen, Norway), Richard 2 (tangle).

 

Hansjörg is very passionate about access to education and training, and regularly collaborates on projects that foster knowledge exchange and aim to build meaningful career paths into the creative arts for anyone, from any background. He is a member of Stage Sight and a Performer in Residence at the Imperial College / Royal College of Music Centre for Performance Studies.

Research interests

Lighting for inter-disciplinary environments in live performance across both arts and science. Lighting as dramaturgy. Light as a material. Archiving light works.

Publications

Light and Environment: Fevered Sleep. In: Theatre and Performance Design: On Light. Spring 2024.

Traces, in: Contemporary Performance Lighting. Methuen 2022.

Light and Truth, in: Music on Stage, Vol.3 Ed by Jane Schopf. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2018.

Wunderkammer, in: Opera and the Media, ed. by Dr. Paul Fryer. McFarland 2017.

Creative Works

2023: Shooting Hedda Gabler. Rose Theatre Kingston. World premier. Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. Clod ensemble/Shoreditch Town Hall/London Jazz Festival. World premiere.

2022: First Touch. Nottingham Playhouse. World premiere.

2021: We Are Not Finished. Fevered Sleep. World premiere. This Is My Room. Clod ensemble. World premiere.

2020: Dadderrs. Frauke Requardt/Daniel Oliver. World premiere. Tramway, Glasgow.

2019: On The High Road. Queen Elizabeth Hall/clod ensemble. World premiere and UK tour.

Education/Academic qualification

Master, MSc Built Environment: Light and Lighting, Bartlett School of Architecture

Award Date: 1 Sept 2022

Bachelor, BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London

Award Date: 1 Jul 1996

Keywords

  • NX Arts in general
  • NA Architecture

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