Ryan Day

Ryan is a lighting designer for theatre, dance, opera, concerts, and fashion.  

He studied Theatre Lighting Design at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.   

Theatre credits include: The Da Vinci Code (Salisbury Playhouse & Mercury Theatre), In the Mouth of the Wolf (Barn - Cirencester), Handbagged (Queens Theatre & national tour), Twelfth Night (National Youth Theatre), A Marvellous Party (Prince of Wales), The Red Shoes (RSC), The Kings Speech (Watermill), The History Boys (Theatre Royal Bath & UK tour), Pericles (RSC & Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Now, I See (Stratford East - Offies 2025, Best Lighting Design), The Lion Inside (Rose Theatre & international tour), The Boy at the Back Class (Rose Theatre & UK tour), Backstairs Billy (Duke of York’s), Quiz (Chichester Festival Theatre & UK tour), Never Have I Ever (Minerva - Chichester), Saving Face (Curve Leicester & The Place), War and Culture (New Diorama), Black Superhero (Royal Court), Local Hero (Co-Lighting Designer with Paule Constable, Minerva - Chichester), Wild Onion (Norwich Theatre Royal & UK tour), Lizard Boy (Hope Mill & Edinburgh Fringe), Mission, The Ballad of Corona V (The Big House), Christie Done It, Dr Faustess (Cockpit), Rabbit Hole, Darknet (Union), I Know I Know I Know (Southwark Playhouse), Into the Woods, A Merchant of Venice (Playground). 

As associate/assistant, theatre credits include: The Rite of Spring (Sadler’s Wells & UK tour), Wickies (Park 200), The Lemon Table (Salisbury Playhouse/UK tour), Les Misérables, Les Misérables In Concert (Sondheim). 

Upcoming: Pimpinone (Linbury - Royal Opera House), The Constant Wife (RSC), Hamlet (Minerva - Chichester). 

Ryan won Best Lighting Design (Body of Work) at the Black British Theatre Awards 2024.