AWARDS
LIGHTING DESIGN AWARDS
Winner: 2021 Lightmongers Award
Nomination: 2019 CATS Design Award for Lost At Sea (with Karen Tennent)
Nomination: 2017 Creative Innovation in Lighting Award for Big Guns
Nomination: 2012 Offies Lighting Design Award for A Place At The Table
Nomination: 2008 Knight of the Illumination Award for I Am Falling
Winner: 2006 Total Theatre Award, for light, sound and performance, for Hysteria
FEATURES
I am featured in Nick Moran's book The Right Light.
I have written for The Guardian, The Stage, Focus Magazine and Lighting and Sound International.
I am currently under commission by Bloomsbury Methuen for a chapter, about feminism in lighting design, as part of their Contemporary Performance Lighting book which will be published in 2022.
PRESS QUOTES
LIGHTING DESIGN
I’ve included some press quotes as part of the various projects listed on this site. I’ve listed another six particular favourites here (which bring back special memories for me), but there are lots more thoughts about my work from the press listed on this page at my ALD website (that same webiste also contains a fairly comprehensive account of the shows that I’ve done during my career in lighting, up until to 2020 lockdown, at any rate).
Love Song for Lavendar Menace at the Lyceum, Edinburgh
‘Katharine Williams’ beautiful lighting illuminates the stage’ The Skinny
Medea at Bristol Old Vic
‘Shizuka Hariu's Set Design begins minimalist and understated, yet quickly becomes breathtaking as Medea ascends the stairs to the heavens. This is accentuated by Katharine William's lighting, that subtly shifts us from one world to the next. This truly is theatre at its very best.’ Female Arts
The Butterfly Effect in Hong Kong
‘a thrilling combination of light and sound’ Poison Kagero
Faeries at the Royal Opera House
‘Michael Vale’s design and Katharine Williams’ lighting together weave pure magic, creating an intricate little world encased in winding tree trunks that seems infused with a mysterious mist, occasionally peppered with extra twinkles and prudent dashes of glitter.’ The Stage
Hysteria tour of China
‘It is in the sheer skill and harmonization of all its individual elements that Hysteria excels. Katharine Williams’ lighting does wonders for the surreal shifts of both time and mood.’ Culture Wars
The Argument at The Barbican Centre
‘brilliant lighting and choreography’ The Telegraph