He was nominated for Olivier Awards for his designs for The Wind in the Willows (RNT 1991),[2] Hamlet (2001),[3] A Streetcar Named Desire (2003),[4] All's Well that Ends Well (2005)[5] and the musicals The Lord of the Rings (2008)[6] and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2014).
For the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has lit productions of Richard III, The Tempest, The Painter of Dishonour and Julius Caesar.
As one of the creative members of the Sam Mendes "Bridge Project", he designed the lighting for As You Like It and The Tempest, which played in repertory at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and The Old Vic in 2010.
"[10] For the Chichester Festival Theatre, he designed the lighting for productions in 2005, 2007 and 2008, including The Scarlet Letter and King Lear.
Early designs for ENO included Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1987, Handel's Xerxes and Carmen in 1988, Lear, Falstaff and Street Scene the next year.