Sinead McKenna  /  Lighting Designer

Sinead has received two Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards for Best Lighting Design and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Lighting Design for a Musical.

Previous designs for Landmark include The Approach, Howie the Rookie, Greener, October, The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger and Blackbird.

Lighting design for film includes Grace Jones – Bloodlight and Bami (Blinder Films).

Recent theatre designs include Parade (Théâtre du Chatelet); Epiphany, Furniture, Shelter and New Electric Ballroom (Druid); The Children, Beginning, Assassins, The Beckett/Pinter/Friel Festival, Private Lives, Juno and the Paycock, A Month in the Country, The Gigli Concert, The Mariner, The Price and An Ideal Husband (Gate Theatre); The Unmanageable Sisters (Abbey Theatre); Angela’s Ashes: The Musical; Futureproof (Everyman, Cork); and Nivelli’s War (Cahoots NI/ New Victory Theatre).

Other theatre designs include The Master Builder, Richard III and Uncle Vanya (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Maz and Bricks (Fishamble); Fire Below (Lyric and Abbey Theatre); What Put the Blood, The Wake, Othello, Aristocrats, Quietly, Alice in Funderland, The Plough and the Stars, 16 Possible Glimpses, The Burial at Thebes, Howie the Rookie, Finders Keepers (Abbey Theatre); Dubliners (Corn Exchange); The Importance of Being Earnest, The Parker Project, Life is a Dream, Attempts on her Life and Dream of Autumn (Rough Magic); The Wolf and Peter, Agnes, Pageant and Swept (CoisCéim); Invitation to a Journey (CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/Fishamble/GIAF).

Opera includes The Tales of Hoffman and Don Giovanni (INO); La Traviata (Malmö Opera House); The Rape of Lucretia (IYO); The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Theatre Company); and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Ireland).