Chris has designed extensively for Shared Experience Theatre, Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Exchange Manchester, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Citizens’s Theatre Glasgow, Birmingham Rep and Manchester International Festival.

Recent designs include: Footloose (Nation Tour); Macbeth, A Little Night Music (Leeds Playhouse); Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man (Royal Albert Hall); Touching the Void (Duke of York’s London & International Tour); Switzerland (Bath & Ambassadors Theatre London); The Best Man (Playhouse Theatre), Nightfall (Bridge Theatre); Rhinoceros (Edinburgh International Festival); Vamos Cuba! (Sadler’s Wells); Sweeney Todd (La Monnaie, Brussels, Copenhagen); 42nd Street (Chatelet Theatre, Paris); Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man, Lord of the Flies (Sadler’s Wells, National and International Tours); Carlos Acosta’s Classical Selection (Coliseum, Royal Albert Hall & World Tour); Doctor Dolittle, 84 Charing Cross Road, The Graduate, The Crucible, The Shawshank Redemption, High Society, Wonderful Town, The History Boys, Dial M for Murder (UK Tour).

Other theatre credits include: Or You Could Kiss Me, Beyond the Horizon, Spring Storm, Harper Regan, The Seagull, The Pillars of the Community, A Dream Play, Iphiginia at Aulis, War and Peace, Baby Doll and The Colour of Justice (National Theatre); Titus Andronicus, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Cymbeline, Alice in Wonderland, Night of the Soul, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Everyman (both also in New York) A Month in the Country, Troilus and Cressida, The Comedy of Errors (world tour), Mysteria and Easter (Royal Shakespeare Company);

Chris won the TMA Best Lighting Design for Dial M for Murder (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Beyond the Horizon (Royal and Derngate, Northampton).