Nancy Strahan

BA Production Arts


Biography

Nancy is specialising in lighting design and electrics during her final year at BOVTS. She is particularly interested in working on site specific work and in the round, with a passion for making site specific and immersive theatre more accessible.

She recently undertook a work placement at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, and has also participated in SLX’s Lighting Programme this year.

Professional credits include: 

Lighting technician, Assembly Festivals (Edinburgh Fringe); Casual Technician (Tobacco Factory Theatres); Venue Technician, Circus City (Unit 15); LX Programmer, The Starseekers (The Wardrobe Theatre); Associate Lighting & Video Designer, Dancing Queer (Trinity Centre).

BOVTS credits include: 

Lighting Designer – Into the Woods (Redgrave Theatre); Tiger Country (Tobacco Factory Theatres); How My Light is Spent (Wardrobe Theatre); No One Will Tell me How to Start a Revolution (Wardrobe Theatre); Black Mountain (Wardrobe Theatre).

Production Electrician – Jekyll & Hyde (Tobacco Factory Theatres).

Students developing and growing in confidence during their time here, seeing their work reaching professional standards in approach and execution; a student who intends to be a stage manager producing a wonderful sound design; a first year student making a lovely recording of a song for their recording project; tracking the careers of former students and seeing them be successful; being able to find a job opportunity for a recent graduate. Frank Bradley, Sound Tutor