West End designs include; The Glenn Miller Story, London Coliseum, Nell Gwynn, at the Globe Theatre and Apollo Theatre, Just Jim Dale at the Vaudeville, La Cage Aux Folles, (Olivier award winner Best Musical Revival 2009 which transferred to Broadway,Tony nomination best lighting and Tony award winner Best Musical 2010); Damon Alburn’s Monkey: Journey to the West, at The Royal Opera House (also Spoletto festival, Paris and the O2 London); Forbidden Broadway at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Vaudeville Theatre London; Simply The Best (Olivier Nomination 2013 Best new Musical) – Savoy Theatre, Spamalot, The Playhouse Theatre London, The Mystery Of Charles Dickens – The Playhouse Theatre London and Belasco Theatre Broadway, Whistle Down the Wind The Palace Theatre, The Rocky Horror Show, The Playhouse Theatre; Beautiful & Damned The Lyric - Shaftesbury Avenue; Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The New London Theatre; Aspects of Love, The Prince of Wales Theatre; 42nd Street, Barnum, The Dominion Theatre; Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol, and Scrooge starring Tommy Steele both at The London Palladium, A Slip of the Tongue, Steppenwolf Theater transfer with John Malkovich - The Shaftesbury Theatre, Derren Brown – Something Wicked This Way Comes (winner 2006 Olivier Award best entertainment) at The Cambridge Theatre. The King and I – Sadlers Wells.
Regional Rep work includes; The Wizard of Oz, Birmingham Rep; The Nightingales, While the Sun Shines, Time and the Conways, Theatre Royal Bath; Ladykillers, Witches of Eastwick, Sleuth, Ben Hur, Marriage of Figaro, Watermill Theatre; Mother Courage, The Seagull, The Heretic, A Dolls House, Glenn Gary Glenn Ross, Great Expectations, Faith Healer, Library Theatre Manchester; The Price, Our Man in Havana, Hound of the Baskervilles, Travesties, Nottingham Playhouse; Sweet Charity, Midsummer Songs, Mods and Rox, Guys and Dolls, New Wolsey Ipswich; The Recruiting Officer, The Maid of Butterworth, Theatre by the Lake Keswick.
UK tours include: Dirty Dancing, Saturday Night Fever, Cilla the Musical, Ghost, Fat Friends, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Carnaby Street, Simply The Best, Starlight Express, Spamalot, Spend Send Spend, Strictly Come Dancing - The Professionals, Armstrong and Miller - Live, The Rocky Horror Show, Laughter in the Rain and Jekyll & Hyde, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Blood Brothers, Kiss Me Kate, The King and I.
International work includes: Beauty and the Beast, German Tour, Ghost, Dubai, Moscow and Paris, Monkey: Journey to the West Lincoln Center, New York. La Cage Aux Folles, (Tony nomination best lighting and Tony award winner Best Musical 2010); La Cage Aux Folles, Scrooge and Whistle Down the Wind - North American tours. The Rocky Horror Show – South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Seoul. Starlight Express – Hong Kong & Singapore, Farewell To My Concubine – Reignwood Theatre Beijing, China. The Secret Life of Nora – Maylaysian National Theatre (Best Lighting Design Nomination), A Sigh of Love - Shanghai Ballet Company, Mary Poppins – Copenhagen, Monkey: Journey to the West Spolletto Festival SC, Royal Opera House, London and Paris, The Mystery of Charles Dickens Broadway, Grease, which toured extensively throughout Europe; High School Musical, The Producers, Beauty and the Beast, Showboat, Copacabana, The Rocky Horror Show, and Chess in Copenhagen, Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella and South Pacific – Tokyo, Rent and Gaslight at the English Theatre, Frankfurt and The Woman In Black and I Do! I Do!- Vienna’s English Theatre. Grease – Byblos Festival, Lebanon, The Master Builder – Toronto and North American Tour. Harlem Gospel Singers in Washington, San Fransisco and Europe.
Opera credits include Falstaff, which was named “Best Opera Production” by the Manchester Evening News; Menotti’s The Consul for Opera Holland Park in London; and Il Turco in Italia for Broomhill Opera.
Awards: Nick was nominated for the 2010 Tony Awards for Best Lighting Design on La Cage Aux Folles.
Nick's current shows include the tours of Blood Brothers, Dirty Dancing, Saturday Night Fever and The Rocky Horror Show
Nick Richings
Representation:
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Nick is a Member of the Association of Lighting Designers in the UK and of the United Scenic Artist Local 829 USA