Matt Cater

Lighting Designer

Matt trained at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, (LAMDA). Since graduating in 2014 he has amassed experience across a variety of entertainment lighting disciplines.

As well as designing for theatre and working in London as a technician and programmer, he has specialised as an LED engineer for TV and live events. Roles in these fields have led him to venues across the UK and Europe.

Opera design credits include: Candide, Partenope (Iford Arts Opera); Un ballo in maschera, Il trovatore (Winslow Hall Opera).

Theatre credits include: A Christmas Carol (Windsor Castle); People Who Need People (Vault Festival); The Busy World is Hushed (Finborough Theatre); Macbeth, Pericles (Sainsbury Theatre); This is not Culturally Significant (The Bunker, Edinburgh, Vault Festival, Denmark); One Last Thing-for now (Old Red Lion); Girl from nowhere (St James' studio); Verge of Strife (Assembly-Edinburgh); Tape (Drayton Arms Theatre); Othello, Measure for Measure, Dark Things, The Island, War Whores, Prince of Homburg, Mydidae, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Copenhagen, Boom, Lift Off (LAMDA Linbury Studio); As You Like It, Mary Shelly (Pleasance Theatre, London).


Longborough debut:L'incoronazione di Poppea (2018)