Hartley is an international lighting designer and theatre consultant whose experience includes Broadway, West End, major UK producing companies, and theatres and arts venues in Europe, North America, Australia and worldwide.


Hartley’s UK work includes designs for the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company (London, Stratford and international), in theatres in London’s West End, and for London producing theatres including the Almeida, BAC, Bush, Donmar Warehouse, Finborough, Gate, Hampstead, King's Head, Lyric Hammersmith, Menier Chocolate Factory, New End, Old Vic, Coronet, Royal Court, Southwark Playhouse, Theatre503, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Kiln (Tricycle). Regional UK work includes Paines Plough, Theatre Royal Bath Productions, Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Theatre Clwyd, Exeter Northcott Theatre, Sheffield Theatres, Manchester Royal Exchange, Wales Millennium Centre, Watermill Theatre Newbury, Leeds Playhouse (West Yorkshire Playhouse), and UK touring productions. Opera includes Royal Opera House Linbury Studio, Opera Holland Park, Castleward Opera Northern Ireland, and Queen Elizabeth Hall.


In Australia Hartley has lit productions for Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Belvoir, Griffin Theatre Company, Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Sydney Con in Sydney; for Melbourne Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne; and for independent companies Cross Pollinate Productions, Little Dove Theatre Art, Pantsguys Productions, Red Line Productions at the Old Fitz, Ride On Theatre and Siren Theatre Company.

Hartley’s work in Europe includes Austria, Germany, Iceland, Ireland (including Gate Theatre, Dublin), Spain and Sweden, and independent companies A Movement of Humans (Berlin) and Jocular Theatre (Barcelona).


North America includes Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional. Hartley’s work has toured to Hong Kong, Korea, Russia, South Africa and Singapore.


Hartley has collaborated with directors Maria Aitken, David Atfield, John Bell, Mark Brokaw, John Burgess, Rachel Chant, Stephen Colyer, Dominic Dromgoole, Mehmet Ergen, David Farr, Gisli Orn Gardarsson, Kate Gaul, Peter Gill, Tanya Goldberg, Michael Grandage, James Grieve, Charlotte Gwinner, Peter Hall, Angus Jackson, John Kachoyan, Rachel Kavanaugh, Roisin McBrinn, Chenoeh Miller, Paul Miller, Vernon Mound, Jonathan Munby, Trevor Nunn, Lindsay Posner, Pamela Rabe, Paul Robinson, Tim Roseman, Josie Rourke, Sam Strong, Charlotte Westenra and Anthea Williams.


He has worked with designers Liz Ascroft, Nick Barnes, Signe Beckmann, Rita Carmody, Alison Chitty, Bunny Christie, Jasmine Christie, Anna Cordingley, Stephen Curtis, Angela Davies, Simon Daw, Alexander Dodge, William Dudley, David Farley, Dale Ferguson, Sophie Fletcher, Anna Gardiner, Tracy Grant Lord, Ti Green, Hayden Griffin, John Gunter, Robert Innes Hopkins, Morgan Large, Steven Brimson Lewis, Anna Kelsey, Gez Mansfield, Bruce McLean, Peter McKintosh, Teresa Negroponte, Christopher Oram, Lucy Osborne, Mel Page, Francesca Reidy, Richard Roberts, Ben Stones, Philip Whitcomb and Paul Wills.


In addition to his lighting design and theatre consultancy work, Hartley is Artistic Director of C venues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Representation

Rachel Daniels

Berlin Associates

+44 (0)20 7632 5284

rachel@berlinassociates.com



Contact Hartley

+44 (0)20 8452 6000

mail@hartleykemp.com





Current projects include


The Wicker Husband

The Watermill Theatre, Newbury


Indecent Proposal

10 to 4 Productions

Southwark Playhouse


God of Carnage

Jocular Theatre,

Almeria Teatre, Barcelona




Recent projects include


Evangeline

Little Dove Theatre Art,

Canberra Theatre Centre

The Mill, Adelaide Fringe

Old 505, Sydney Fringe


Idiom

A Movement of Humans

Pfefferberg Theater, Berlin


Exclusion

The Street, Canberra


Hand to God

Jocular Theatre,

Almeria Teatre, Barcelona


Misterman

Winner, Best Lighting Design of an independent production, Sydney Theatre Awards 2015

Siren Theatre Company,

Old Fitz Theatre, Sydney

transfers to Hobart, Belvoir, Edinburgh


The Village Bike

Cross Pollinate Productions/Red Line Productions, Old Fitz Theatre, Sydney


The Ham Funeral

Nominated for Best Lighting Design of an independent production, Sydney Theatre Awards 2017

Siren Theatre Co/Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney


Bob

The Bob Collective

Pfefferberg Theater, Berlin


Constellations

Jocular Theatre,

Almeria Teatre, Barcelona


Land of Our Fathers

Nominated for Best Lighting Design, London Off West End Awards

Theatre503, London/

Tara Finney Productions

transfer to Trafalgar Studios, London

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

UK tour


Shangri-La

Finborough Theatre, London/

Yellow Earth Theatre


English Eccentrics

Sydney Conservatorium of Music


As Good a Time as Any

Print Room at the Coronet, London


Crave and 4.48 Psychosis

Sheffield Theatres


A Handful of Stars

Theatre503, London

transfer to Trafalgar Studios, London


Falsettos

Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Sydney


Dreams in White

Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney


Sunset Baby

The Gate, London


The Duchess of Malfi

Bell Shakespeare, Sydney


Old Man

Belvoir, Sydney


Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Sydney Theatre Company


Our New Girl

The Bush, London


Love, Love, Love

Paines Plough, UK tour


A Number

Sheffield Theatres

Chichester Festival Theatre

Fugard Theatre, Cape Town




Professional Memberships


Association of Lighting

Designers

www.ald.org.uk


Society of British

Theatre Designers

www.theatredesign.org.uk


Association of British

Theatre Technicians

www.abtt.org.uk


Equity

www.equity.org.uk


United Scenic Artists

www.usa829.org


Australian Lighting

Industry Association

www.alia.com.au