Timothy Skelly

School of Arts and Media

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Contact Details

New Adelphi 6.02

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Current positions

Lecturer in Technical Theatre

BIOGRAPHY

Tim Skelly is a lighting designer for performance and exhibition and an educator who teaches technical theatre and performance design.  

 

His current projects include a world premiere, a co-production between Red Ladder Theatre and Liverpool's Royal Court, called Homebaked which explores the story of the ground-breaking local Liverpool Community Land Trust that lies on the boundary of Everton and Anfield.  He has also worked on a four-week summer project to develop an original lighting design, with acclaimed director Alan Lyddiard and cross-disciplinary artist Delaine Le Bas, for Leeds Playhouse and The Performance Ensemble called The Promise of a Garden.  The project worked with Leeds Older People's Forum and Leeds 2023 developing a work that combined dance, verbatim storytelling, and over 5000 flowers contributed from a range of community projects.

 

Recent theatre credits include: Treasure Island; Two; One Man Two Guvnors; Great Expectations; Brassed Off (Derby Theatre)  Berlin to BroadwayLulu; Hy Brasil (Opera North)   Merchant of Venice (Stafford Shakespeare Festival)  The Promise of a GardenAround the World in 80 Days; Be My Baby; Blake Remixed (Leeds Playhouse) The Shed Crew; The Damned UnitedBig Society (Red Ladder Theatre Company)  Educating Rita; Peter Pan (The Dukes, Lancaster) The Haunted Man (Kindred Theatre) Dancing Bear (Jamie Fletcher and Company) Ballroom BlitzSign of the Times (Hull Truck Theatre) Rush; Erimus (Southpaw Dance Company) Wars of the Roses; Beyond These Walls; For Love or MoneyA Government Inspector (Northern Broadsides Theatre Company) Larkin: New Eyes Each Year; Weathered Estates; Trent Falls to Spurn Point with the sound artist Chris Watson (Hull UK City of Culture)

Teaching

Technical Theatre and Performance Design.

Research Interests

Stage Lighting and Scenography for live performance.