During HGO's 2026-27 season, Malcolm Rippeth makes his company debut serving as the lighting designer for Der Rosenkavalier. His recent work includes North by Northwest (Emma Rice Company, U.K. and U.S. tours); Gary Oldman's Krapp's Last Tape (Royal Court Theatre); Captain Corelli's Mandolin (West End); My Brilliant Friend (National Theatre); The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse (Nottingham Playhouse); Tristan and Yseult, A Child's Christmas in Wales, and Malory Towers (Emma Rice Company); Future Cargo (Greek National Opera Ballet); Hansel and Gretel and the Witch (balletLORENT); Carmen (Glyndebourne); Peter Grimes (Welsh National Opera); Cinderella (English National Opera); The Marriage of Figaro and Eugene Onegin (Opera North); Ariadne auf Naxos (Garsington Opera); Salome (Seattle Opera); Die Walküre (Santa Fe Opera); The Turn of the Screw (Canadian Opera Company); Breaking the Waves (St. Gallen); La Tempête (Grand Théâtre de Genève); Stiffelio (Opéra de Dijon); Der Kleine Prinz (Theater an der Wien); Madame Butterfly (Royal Danish Opera); Parsifal (Semperoper Dresden); and Die Schöpfung (Oper Köln). He has received a Village Voice OBIE and WhatsOnStage Award and has been nominated for Outer Critics Circle, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and New York Drama Desk Awards for his work.