Denis Hutchinson

(19**-) Lighting designer. ***. (Sometimes his name is wrongly written Dennis Hutchinson.) Has worked on shows ranging from experimental theatre via contemporary dance and musicals to ballet and opera. Career highlights include both scenic and lighting designs for Romance, Macbeth, Umoja (in London’s West End), Big Band Blast, Life x3,Amadeus, Three Viewings, Tell Me On a Sunday, Mojo, The King and I, A Handful Of Keys, Sweet Phoebe and The Four Seasons as well as lighting for Soweto Story (Deon Opperman, 2007), African Footprint, Rosalinda, The Rocky Horror Show, Closer and a season of seven South African plays as part of Woza Africa at the Lincoln Festival in New York. His work with Free Flight and Vusa dance companies has also taken him to Germany, Switzerland and Australia while work as a theatre consultant has included the Monument Theatre in Grahamstown, the Arts Centre for the University of Johannesburg, the auditorium for the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy at Henley-on-Klip and both the Globe Theatre and the Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City.