Biography

During the 2025-26 season, Lucy Carter makes her HGO debut as the lighting designer for Hansel and Gretel. Carter was awarded the 2018 Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Creative Contribution; and the Knight of Illumination Award for Dance for Chroma (2008) and Woolf Works (2015). Opera-lighting credits include Festen (Royal Ballet and Opera); Obsidian Tear (National Ballet Bordeaux); Alcina, Mavra, and Pierrot Lunaire (The Royal Opera); The Turn of the Screw (Royal Danish Opera); The Marriage of Figaro (Paris Opera); Kát’a Kabanová (Rome, The Royal Opera); The Cunning Little Vixen, Orphée, Salome, and The Dream of Gerontius (English National Opera); Fiddler on the Roof (Grange Park Opera); La finta giardiniera (Glyndebourne Festival, La Scala, Milan); and Peter Grimes (Aldeburgh). Theater credits include The Time Traveler's Wife (Storyhouse, West End); Shirley Valentine, 2:22 A Ghost Story, and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End); Much Ado about Nothing, Home I’m Darling, Husbands and Sons, Medea, and Emil and the Detectives (National Theatre); and Persuasion (Rose Theatre, Kingston). Dance productions with Wayne McGregor include DYAD 1929, INFRA, Woolf Works, MADDADDAM, The Dante Project, McGregor + Mugler, Multiverse, Chroma, and Autobiography.