Neil Austin

Technical Theatre 1992
Lighting Designer 

Neil Austin is now a lighting designer working internationally on plays, musicals, opera and dance shows. His prolific output includes regular work at the National Theatre, Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse and West End with directors including Richard Eyre, Jamie Lloyd, Ian Rickson, Nicholas Hytner and Michael Grandage. 

Recent productions include The Hothouse in the West End, The Weir, Julius Caesar, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, King Lear, A Streetcar named Desire, Hamlet, Piaf, Parade and Red at the Donmar Warehouse, Children of the Sun, Port, London Assurance and The Captain of Kopencik at the National Theatre, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Evita on Broadway, Betty Blue Eyes, The Sunshine Boys and South Downs/The Browning Version in the West End, The Faith Machine at the Royal Court, Company at Sheffield Crucible, As One for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Cinderella with the New Adventures Company. 

Neil won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play for Red at the Golden Theatre, New York, and received the Award for Excellence in Theatre Lighting at the Knight of Illumination Awards 2008 for Parade. He has been nominated for an Olivier Award on several occasions, including for Piaf and No Man’s Land in 2009, and won the 2011 Olivier Award for his work on The White Guard at the National Theatre.

Neil Austin was made a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2008.  
Further information and press coverage on Neil Austin can be found at his website: www.neilaustin.com