ARTIST AVATAR
Original Lighting Designer
Paule Constable
United Kingdom

About

Biography

Paule Constable is the original lighting designer for HGO’s 2026 production of Faust. Her work has been seen previously at HGO in The Marriage of Figaro (2023, 2016), Rusalka (2016), and Manon (2003). Constable has won six Olivier Awards for Best Lighting, for Oliver! (2025), The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2020), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (2013), The Chalk Garden (2009), Don Carlos (2006), and His Dark Materials (2005), and Tony Awards for Best Lighting for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (2015) and War Horse (2011). She was the recipient of the Hospital Award for Contribution to Theatre, won the L.A. Drama Desk Award for Les Misérables, War Horse, and Sleeping Beauty, and received both the New York Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for War Horse on Broadway. In 2025, Constable was awarded the WhatsOnStage Services to UK Theatre Award and the Richard Pilbrow Lifetime Recognition Award. Her opera productions include many designs for London’s Royal Ballet and Opera, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Opera North, Scottish Opera, and Welsh National Opera. For the Metropolitan Opera, she has designed lighting for productions including Satyagraha, Anna Bolena, Don Giovanni, and Giulio Cesare. She is an associate of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures. 

HGO Repertoire

Lighting Designer: 

MANON 2002-03 

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO 2015-16, 2022-23 

RUSALKA 2015-16 Coming soon.