Matt Daw

Matt Daw is a London based lighting designer working internationally in theatre, live music, film, and spectacular events.

Matt works with ambitious artists, directors, producers and designers to create powerful experiences for every audience.  With an open, agile and collaborative approach, Matt solves creative problems looking at productions holistically – with focus on the intersection between light and subject to realise brilliant creative visions.

“Matt Daw’s lighting is sensational, with a scintillating play of shadow and silhouette”

The GuardianRichard III + RSC

Matt works with ambitious artists, directors, producers and designers to create powerful experiences for every audience.  With an open, agile and collaborative approach, Matt solves creative problems looking at productions holistically – with focus on the intersection between light and subject to realise brilliant creative visions.

Recent works include

Theatre:

  • A Midsummer Nights Dream (RSC)

  • Rumble in The Jungle (Rematch)

  • Cymbeline (RSC)

  • Linck and Mühlhahn (Hampstead Theatre)

  • Richard III (RSC)

  • The Snow Queen (Royal Danish Opera)

  • Troilus and Cressida (RSC)

  • St Nicholas (Donmar / Goodman Theatre Chicago)

  • Memoirs of a Sailor (National Theatre of Kuwait)

  • The Last Ship (UK and US tour)

  • The Shadow Factory (NST)

  • City of Glass (Lyric Hammersmith)

  • Rules for Living (ETT)

  • The Elephantom (National Theatre)

Music:

  • Sampha (European tour)

  • Future Islands + People Who Arn't There Anymore (world tour)

  • Lorde + Solar Power (world tour)

  • Alicia Keys + Keys to the Summer (US tour)

  • Christine and the Queens + Paranoia Angels True Love tour

  • Damien Rice + 2023 (world tour)

  • 5 Seconds of Summer + Live at the Royal Albert Hall

  • Arcade Fire + WE (world tour)

  • Oliver Sim + Fruit tour

  • Sigur Ros + 2022 (world tour)

  • Pet Shop Boys + Dreamworld (world tour)

Film:

  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar + Wes Anderson

  • Astroid City + Wes Anderson

  • The French Dispatch + Wes Anderson

  • Pride + Matthew Warchus

Exhibitions:

  • Kira Freije + The Throat is a Threaded Melody (E-WERK, Berlin)

  • Made In Space (Tycho Brahe Planeterium, Copenhagen)

  • Virtual Realms (Barbican/Touring)