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THEATRE CV
DAVE BLAKE
12 b Roundhill Crescent
Brighton BN2 3FR
Tel
01273 620120
Mobile 07887 855448
e-mail: [email protected]
AND CURRENTLY…
2007 – 2014 Technician – Komedia, Brighton
SINCE 2000…
2000 – 2007 Freelance Technician – Komedia, Dome, Theatre Royal, Brighton, Sallis
Benney, Gardner Arts Centre etc…
AT THE MOMENT & THE NONE-TOO-DISTANT PAST…
2014
Lighting Design: ‘England Away’ - TFIU, National tour.
2013
Lighting Design: ‘Garage Band’ – Mercury Theatre Studio, Colchester.
2012
Lighting Design: ‘The Lovecraft Chronicles’ – Michael Sabbaton - Touring
Lighting / Set Design: ‘Way Out West’ – TFIU, National tour
Lighting / Staging Design: ‘Fever Pitch’ – TFIU, National tour.
2011
Co-writer; Set/Lighting Design; ‘Brighton ‘Til I Die!’ – TFIU / Fuel, Theatre Royal
Brighton
Lighting Design & technician: ‘The Call Of Cthulhu’ – Michael Sabbaton –
National tour
2010
Lighting Design: ‘Don’t Shoot The Clowns’ – TFIU / Fuel. National tour
Co-Devisor: ‘A Dircksian Phantasmagoria’ – Company Coup de Glass – White
Nights Fest. Brighton
2006/7/10 Stage / Lighting Design: ‘Meeting Joe Strummer’ – TFIU - Edinburgh Festival &
National tours
QUITE A TIME AGO
2004
Lighting Design: Bill Bryson's 'Down Under’ G&J Productions – National tour
Company Stage Manager: 'Pinocchio' – MCN Productions/Gardner Arts Centre
Technical Stage Manager: Nightingale Theatre – Visions Festival
2003/4
Lighting Design/Stage Manager: 'Roadmovie' – Chantal Productions, National
tour
2002
Company Stage Manager: ‘The Jungle Book’ – MCN Productions/Gardner Arts
Centre
Technical Stage Manager; ‘The Treason Show’ & ‘Ronaldo Ate My Credit Card’ –
Edinburgh Festival
2001/2/3 Set/Lighting Design; Bill Bryson's ‘Notes From A Small Island’ – BTE, National
tour
2001
Co-writer; Set/Lighting Design; ‘Brighton ‘Til I Die!’ – BTE, Gardner Arts Centre
2000
Deputy Stage Manager; ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ – MCN Productions/Gardner Arts
Centre
1999/2000 Set/Lighting Design and Stage Manager; ‘Fever Pitch’ – BTE, National tour
1999
Deputy Stage Manager; ‘Alice in Wonderland’ – MCN Productions/Gardner Arts
Centre
Lighting Design; ‘Game’ – BTE, National tour
Lighting Design; ‘The Look of Love – An Evening of Burt Bacharach’ – Komedia
& Gardner Arts Centre
OTHER THEATRE EXPERIENCE:
As PRODUCTION MANAGER
1985/1993 Perrier Pick of the Fringe; Annual 3 week London season at Donmar
Warehouse (’85 –’89), Place Theatre (’90), Purcell Room, South Bank (’91-’93).
1988/1990 John McCarthy ‘Hostage’ Benefit Shows; Camden Palace (’88), London
Hippodrome (’89), Town & Country Club (’90)
1988/1989 Theatre de Complicite; Retrospective season at the Almeida Theatre, London
1988
Zenya Hamada Productions; Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Place Theatre,
London
1987
Wesley Arts Festival; Wesley Hall, London
London International Mime Festival; Two shows at Donmar Warehouse, London
Tricycle Theatre at the Donmar Warehouse; ‘Trinidad Sisters’
As ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER
1985/1986 Steven Berkoff; Two solo shows at Donmar Warehouse, London
As TECHNICAL MANAGER
1992/1995
The Old Town Hall Arts Centre, Hemel Hempstead
1979/1980
Gate Theatre, London
As DEPUTY MASTER CARPENTER
1991/1992
Dominion Theatre, London
1982
Astoria Theatre, London
1981/1982
Shaftesbury Theatre, London
As CHARGEHAND DAYMAN (Stage)
1989/1990
Dominion Theatre, London
1980
Shaftesbury Theatre, London
As HEAD FLYMAN
1990
Royal College of Music
1989
Dominion Theatre, London
As LX AND/OR SOUND OP
Royal College of Music; Donmar Warehouse; Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith; Hampstead
Theatre; Gate Theatre; Hammersmith Palais; Komedia, Brighton; Gardner Arts Centre,
Brighton; Dome, Brighton, Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton - various Edinburgh Fringe
Festival venues; various London Fringe shows and venues
As STAGE AND/OR FLYING CREW OR LX SHOWMAN OR LIME OP
Dominion Theatre; Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith; Sadlers Wells; Donmar Warehouse;
Westminster Hall; Shaftesbury Theatre; Duke of Yorks Theatre; Criterion Theatre; Prince
Edward Theatre; Theatre Royal, Haymarket; Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton, Theatre Royal,
Brighton
As PRODUCER/CO-PRODUCER
1981
Two shows at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including ‘Fringe-First’ award
winner
1986/1987
‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ at The Gate Theatre & The Man in the Moon, London
1989
‘Stand & Deliver!’ Comedy Club, Oxford
OTHER
A number of LX and/or Sound Designs for studio/fringe shows. A number of double-up roles
as S.M or D.S.M. Loads of Fit-ups/Get-outs etc…
DAVE BLAKE…
… has spent the majority of the last twenty-five years working in various roles on the
production side of theatre and performance. These range from stints as Production
Manager for the Perrier Comedy Awards and Theatre de Complicite, to re-creating
Victorian theatrical stage illusions for Brighton’s White Night Festival - and being
D.S.M. for Jim Davidson.
He is a frequent collaborator with Brighton-based touring company 'The Future is
Unwritten' for whom he has designed (predominantly lighting – sometimes staging)
for over a decade. Shows for this company include the stage adaptation of Nick
Hornby’s Fever Pitch; original shows Meeting Joe Strummer, Way Out West, England
Away and Brighton Til I Die! - as well as the co-productions of Bill Bryson’s Notes
From A Small Island and Down Under.
He has also lit shows for numerous touring companies, festivals and venues over the
years including Michael Sabbaton’s The Call of Cthulhu and The Temple. Most
recently he lit Garage Band at the Mercury Theatre Studio, Colchester.