Brian Mitchell

Experience

Lir Academy Training

• MFA Stage Design - 2020

Productions

• • Production
  • Role
  • Director
• • The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
  • Lighting and Set Designer
  • Julie Kelleher
• • Sisters of the Rising
  • Lighting and Set Designer
  • Anushka Senanayake
• • Secret Garden
  • Lighting Designer
  • Deirdre Dwyer
• • Levin and Levin
  • Lighting Designer
  • Veronica Coburn and Bryan Burroughs
• • Dancing at Lughnasa
  • Lighting Designer
  • Julie Kelleher
• • Factory Girls
  • Lighting Designer
  • Julie Kelleher
• • Lonesome West
  • Lighting Designer
  • Julie Kelleher
• • Beauty and The Beast
  • Lighting Designer
  • Catherine Mahon Buckley
• • Cinderella
  • Lighting Designer
  • Catherine Mahon Buckley
• • Crowman
  • Lighting Designer
  • Katie Holly
• • Seahorse
  • Lighting and Set Designer
  • Davey Kelleher
• • Bluffers Guide to Suburbia
  • Associate Lighting and Set Designer
  • Tom Creed

Other Experience

Brian has worked in the industry for 15 years. In his role as assistant technical manager in the Everyman Theatre Cork he facilitated and oversaw all technical requirements for hundreds of national and international award-winning shows. He has a huge wealth of experience across many disciplines including theatre, opera, ballet and musicals. He has designed and lit numerous musical artists including Herbie Hancock, Gregory Porter, Steve Windwood, The Frames and Camille O'Sullivan. Brian is co-founder of For The Birds Theatre Company, established in 2016 the company has toured nationally both of their original productions Sisters of the Rising and Seahorse.

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Skills

Lighting (design, rigging, programming, operation). Live music set up and operation. Qlab (lighting,sound,AV). Projection mapping. Carpentry, stage rigging, manual handling, stage pass, First Aid (general & CPR) Fully licenced driver.

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