Technical & Teaching
Although his specialism is Lighting Design, Pete’s experience in other fields of Entertainment is as diverse as the places in which he has designed, having been Technical Director, Production Manager and Technical Manager for several companies, Sound Engineer on a cruise ship, Deputy Stage Manager of The Comedy Store (London) for five years, Venue Manager at the Edinburgh Festival, Stage Manager, Roadie and LD for a variety of Music Festivals, and ten years as the Senior Technician in a University Performing Arts faculty, responsible for more than a hundred productions annually. He has also taught Technical Theatre Arts both at university and elsewhere around the world, including Lighting Design for Performance to a conference of Lithuanian lighting professionals, Technical Theatre Arts to Adugna Dance Theatre (Ethiopia), and was Technical Consultant to Kreposnoi Ballet (Siberia).
TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT
Technical Director:
Arts & Business N.I. (UK) 2014-2019
Destino (Ethiopia) 2017
TM Dance (International) 1996-2010.
Dance United (UK) 1999-2009.
Ballet San Marcos (Peru) 2004.
Adugna Dance Theatre (Ethiopia) (project based), 1999-2003.
Aura Dance Theatre (Lithuania) (project based), 1997-2002.
White Monkey Trip (UK), 1996-1997.
Hand To Mouth (UK) 1995
Christian Fellowship (UK), Visit of the Dalai Lama, London 1995.
Stage Manager / Production Manager:
Kings Kross Summer Sessions (UK) 2022, 2023
Russell Maliphant Dance Company (UK) 2019, 2020
Cubbitt Music Sessions (UK) 2018, 2019, 2021
Tete a Tete (UK) 2018
Janice Parker Projects (Scotland) 2013-2015
Uchenna Dance (UK) 2015 - 2018
Technical consultant:
Adugna Dance Theatre (Ethiopia), 2003-2013.
Rambert School (U.K.), 2008-2013
Circus Theatre School (Australia), 2005-2006
Kreposnoi Ballet (Siberia), 2000.
Venue Management:
E.A.S.T., Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 1993.
TEACHING
Lighting Design for young choreographers, Royal Ballet School, London. 2019
Design Concepts & Realisation: Raising the Bar, London. 2015
Technical Theatre Arts: Yante, Ramallah, Palestine. 2013
Lighting Design masterclass: for professional theatre technicians, Ramallah, Palestine. 2013
Technical Theatre Arts: all B.A. & M.A. Dance Programmes and Choreography Programmes, Middlesex University, 1994 – 2004.
Technical Theatre Arts Courses: Adugna Dance Theatre and the Ethiopian Gemini Community Youth Programme, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Lighting Design for Performing Arts: Lithuanian Lighting professionals. 2002.
COMMITTEES
Middlesex University Committees:
Trent Park Health and Safety Committee, 1996 – 2004.
School of Arts, Technical Committee, 1997 – 2004
AWARDS / BURSARYS
British Council, November 2004: to work in Peru with Ballet San Marcos;
HEFCE Research Fund, April 2004: for travel to Peru to work with Ballet San Marcos;
Middlesex University Teaching and Learning Strategy Small Project Fund, December 2002: - for travel to Vietnam to observe production values of David Glass Ensemble;
Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, 2002: to light new work for Aura Dance Company and teach Lighting Course, Kaunas, Lithuania;
Middlesex University, Staff Development Fund, 2002: for accommodation in Lithuania;
HEFCE Research Fund, 2001: to travel to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland for project feasibility study;
NFFR Funding, Middlesex University, 2000: to travel to Siberia.
Middlesex University SDF, 1998: to travel to Lithuania to light new work, "Songs I used to sing" for Aura Dance Theatre.
Photos:
"Watercolours", Detmold 2010; "Daphnis & Chloe", Berlin 2004; "CanDoCanDance", Hamburg 2006; "Fragments", London 1997; "Voices in the Dark", Kaunus 2002.