James’s lighting design for Marie Jones’s Stones in His Pockets has been seen in the West End and Broadway, as well as on UK, US and World Tours.

Other lighting designs include: Alone It Stands (West End, UK and Irish Tours), A Night In November (Australian Tour), As The Beast Sleeps (Tricycle Theatre, London), The Wizard of Oz, Bah Humbug, Much Ado About Nothing and Arms and the Man (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), The Chosen Room and Goblin Market (Youth Music Theatre), Our Jimmy, The Mikado and My Fair Lady (Grand Opera House, Belfast), The Gentlemen’s Tea-Drinking Society (Belfast and Glasgow), Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Red Noses (Ulster Association of Youth Drama), Our Town (Millennium Dome), and many shows for the Kids In Control Project.

As Production Manager he has worked with Belfast Festival at Queens, Castleward Opera, Big Telly Theatre Company, The KIC Project, Cahoots NI, the Ulster Association of Youth Drama, and the Belfast Community Circus School.

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