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Malcolm Rippeth

Lighting Designer

Malcolm has been working with Emma Rice for over twenty years, lighting numerous shows including Brief Encounter (West End and Broadway); The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (West End); The Empress (RSC); Twelfth Night, Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe); Malory Towers (UK tour); Wise Children, Bagdad Cafe (Old Vic); Orpheus in the Underworld (English National Opera); The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, Tristan & Yseult, The Red Shoes (Kneehigh).

Other recent shows include My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre); Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Songs for Nobodies (West End); Titus Andronicus (RSC); The Gretchen Question (Fuel); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); Betty! A Sort of Musical (Manchester Royal Exchange); Sputnik Sweetheart (Arcola); The Mirror Crack'd (Mumbai); 1923 Muzikali (Zorlu Center Istanbul); Klangwolke (Donaupark Linz); Future Cargo (Requardt and Rosenberg); The Becoming (balletLORENT); The Wreckers (Glyndebourne); Pleasure (Opera North); Breaking the Waves (St Gallen); Stiffelio (Strasbourg); Hercules (Karlsruhe); The Turn of the Screw (Garsington); War & Peace (Welsh National Opera); Der Rosenkavalier (Irish National Opera); Madama Butterfly (Oper Graz) and Rusalka (Santa Fe Opera).

He is the recipient of a WhatsOnStage Award and a Village Voice OBIE, and has been nominated for Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and New York Drama Desk Awards.

  • North By NorthWest

    Tue 29 Apr - Sat 10 May
    Wise Children return to HOME with a reworking of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy film, adapted and directed by Emma Rice.
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