Richard Howell is making his HGO debut as lighting designer for Breaking the Waves. His designs have been seen in productions at The Old Vic Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Almeida Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Court, Young Vic Theatre, Public Theater New York, Kiln Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, Chichester Festival Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Sheffield Crucible, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Royal Bath, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Opera Holland Park, Gothenburg Opera, Danish National Opera, Scottish Opera, and Sadlers Wells. Recent projects include Passing Strange at Young Vic and Chariots of Fire and A Doll’s House at Sheffield Crucible. Among his credits are Tartuffe and Coriolanus with Royal Shakespeare Company; The Writer at Almeida; Aristocrats and Privacy at Donmar Warehouse; All My Sons and Jekyll and Hyde at Old Vic in London; The Watsons, Pinter 5 & 6, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bad Jews, and Killer Joe on London’s West End; Breaking the Code, A Doll’s House, and Little Shop of Horrors at Manchester Royal Exchange; Labyrinth at Hampstead Theatre; The Wild Party at The Other Palace; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Wizard of Oz, and Playing for Time at Sheffield Crucible; The Grinning Man, The Crucible, Cyrano, and The Life And Times of Fanny Hill at Bristol Old Vic; The Madness Of George III at Nottingham Playhouse; Breaking the Waves and Flight at Scottish Opera; Il trittico and La fanciulla del West at Opera Holland Park, and Madame Butterfly at Danish National Opera. In 2017, Howell won a Knight of Illumination Award for Guards at the Taj at the Bush Theatre.