Theatre Lighting Design credits include:
Inexperience (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Sweat (Citizens Theatre & Lyceum Theatre); The Trials (Tron Theatre); Two Gentleman of Verona (RSC); Lear (Singapore Arts Festival); Doubt, Snake in the Grass (Dundee Rep); Cat Power, GRIT Orchestra (EIF/ Playhouse Theatre Edinburgh); James V (National Tour); To Kill A Mockingbird (Lyric Hammersmith); Macbeth (Garrick Theatre, West End); BK Shivani (Wembley Arena); Mrs President (Charing Cross Theatre); Sweeney Todd, Secret Life of Humans, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Handbagged and Spamalot (English Theatre Frankfurt); Hound of the Baskervilles, Our Man in Havana, Our Friends The Enemy, If We Got Some More Cocaine (UK Tour); Whatsonstage Awards 2012-2017 (Prince Of Wales Theatre, West End); What I Go To School For (Theatre Royal Brighton); Rumplestiltskin (Theatre Royal Bath then MAC Belfast); Sunset Boulevard (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); Pure Imagination, Marry Me A Little, Andrew Lippa in Concert, Scenes From a Marriage directed by Trevor Nunn (St James Theatre); Man Up, Ignition (Frantic Assembly); Henry V (Cambridge Arts Theatre); The Wedding Singer, How To Succeed in Business (Lowry Theatre); Brixton Calling, Dessert directed by Trevor Nun, Promises Promises, Allegro, The Grand Hotel, Uppercut, Followers (Southwark Playhouse); Rags, Animal, My Dad's Gap Year, Hatched and Dispatched (Park Theatre).
Associate/ Assistant Lighting Design credits include:
to Neil Austin - Shakespeare In Love, Henry V (Noel Coward); Silver Tassie, Great Britain (National Theatre) Le Corsaire (English National Ballet); The El Train (Hoxton Hall); Birdland (Royal Court).
to Natash Katz - Once (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Skylight (Wyndhams Theatre then Golden Theatre, NY), Winner for Best Lighting Design for the 2015 Tony Awards.
to Paul Pyant - Fatal Attraction (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) Winner for Best Lighting Design for the 2014 Olivier Awards.
to Simon Wilkinson - Dragon (Vox Motus and National Theatre of Scotland).
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Lyric Hammersmith, photo by Helen Murray
Derek Anderson is a lighting designer for theatre and live events. He graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts with a First Class Honours Degree in Production Arts and is an associate of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
Recently Derek won the 2026 OffWestEnd Award for Best Design with Brixton Calling and the 2026 Singapore Times Award for Best Lighting Design with Lear.