Jon Driscoll

Jon Driscoll
Born
Jonathan Richard Driscoll

(1974-06-25)25 June 1974
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
OccupationTheatre projection designer

Jonathan Richard Driscoll (born 25 June 1974) is an English Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated theatre projection designer and lighting designer working in the West End and on Broadway. He is a Technical Associate of the National Theatre in London.

Biography

Born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, Driscoll attended Sir Roger Manwood's School, Kent after which he studied Theatre Design at Croydon College of Art and Design. He started designing lighting on the London fringe and as assistant lighting designer for lighting designers Mark Jonathan and Paul Pyant.

From 1995 to 2000, he worked as a lighting technician at the National Theatre in London (then under the directorship of Richard Eyre) where he first worked for director Sam Mendes as Paul Pyant's assistant on Othello (1997) starring David Harewood. He would go on to work regularly with Mendes in the future: Richard III (Old Vic, London 2011), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London 2013) and King Lear (National Theatre, London 2014).

In a bid to realise his childhood ambition to become a cinematographer he successfully applied to the National Film and Television School[1] in 1999. He studied under cinematographers Ernie Vincze BSC and Brian Tufano BSC.

It was here that he met animator Gemma Carrington with whom he would later develop a regular creative partnership beginning in 2006 with the West End musical Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage. Together, they would collaborate on design projections for Brief Encounter, Earthquakes in London, Birdsong and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

On graduating in 2002 with an MA in Film and Television Cinematography he experienced a shortage of job opportunities in the film industry and turned to video design for the theatre.[2]

One of his first jobs was on the Madness musical Our House at the Cambridge Theatre in London. Notable effects included the use of 16mm film production to create panoramic digital projection backgrounds to accompany the Driving in my car sequence. He is a director of cinelumina, a post-production company in Hoxton, London.

Notable productions

Plays

Musical theatre

Dance

Concerts and events

Awards and nominations

Notes

  1. ^ MusicalTalk podcast number 0260; "Projection design: Jon Driscoll", 18 October 2011, 14:19:25 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Ghost in the machine: Nick Smirthwaite meets Jon Driscoll, theman behind the special effects making audiences gasp in London and beyond", The Stage, 11 August 2011.
  3. ^ "New York Obies Theater Awards". www.villagevoice.com. Archived from the original on 21 May 2010.
  4. ^ "Previous Winners: Olivier Winners 2009 - Olivier Awards". Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  5. ^ "Previous Winners: Olivier Winners 2010 - Olivier Awards". Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Previous Winners: Olivier Winners 2012 - Olivier Awards". Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  7. ^ "2012 Drama Desk Award Nominees". Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  8. ^ 66th Tony Awards#Nominees and winners
  9. ^ "Previous Winners: Olivier Winners 2012 - Olivier Awards". Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  10. ^ "2013 Drama Desk Award Winners". Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  11. ^ "Olivier Awards with MasterCard - Previous Winners | #BeInspired".

General references