James McFetridge

James has been working as a lighting designer for over twenty-five years. His earliest designs were in the Lyric Theatre, Belfast and included Stones in his Pockets, which he re-lit in the West End, and then on Broadway. His design was also used in various Irish, UK, US and World tours.

He has had one other West End show (Alone it Stands, Duchess Theatre), and has lit shows in Canada, Australia, Russia and New York, and his designs have toured the UK and Ireland. He won the Irish Times Irish Theatre Award in 2023 for Best Lighting for the Lyric production Big Man.

This is his second show for Brassneck, having lit Conversations With Angels in 2022.

Other recent lighting designs include: The Night Before Christmas (The MAC Theatre); The Price (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Anne Boleyn, Romeo and Juliet, Big Man, The Gap Year, and Dracula (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Brendan at the Chelsea (Acorn Theatre, New York); Can’t Forget About You (Tron Theatre, Glasgow); The Trumpet and the King (Terra Nova Productions); Teechers, Mojo Mickybo, The 39 Steps, The Colleen Bawn and Cabaret (Bruiser Theatre Company); The Elves and the Shoemaker, Under the Hawthorn Tree (Cahoots NI); Les Miserables, The Producers(BSPA); Bridesmaids of Northern Ireland, The History of the Peace… According to My Ma (GBL Productions); In The Name of the Son, Two Sore Legs, 1932 – The People of Gallagher Street (Green Shoot Productions).