Joshua is a Lighting Designer, Co-Designer and Theatre Maker. He
works across theatre, performance art and dance. He is particularly drawn to
performance that actively explores its relationship with audiences, and in
developing performance spaces that foster a sense of democracy, sharing and
empathy.
Joshua
feels strongly about issues of representation within live performance, and has
joined Stage Sight in order to further conversations around who’s stories get
told––by whom––and through what aesthetic perspective. He is especially
interested in broadening the representation of class across design in theatre
and beyond.
Joshua
is starting and continuing to evolve discussions within creative teams and
managements/producers to consider what better representation looks like, and to
consider the steps we all need to take to make these thoughts a natural part of
our work.
Joshua
is working hard within his own practice to try and make the process of
designing lighting accessible: by sharing as much of it as possible, either in
the form of short blogs, excerpts of notebooks/sketchbooks, or reference
imagery. All of this with a view of gaining visibility of these creative roles
and furthermore, the great variety of perspectives that different creatives
bring to the act of theatre-making.
Joshua is particularly interested in being a point of contact for early career lighting designers attempting to navigate the challenges of the early years of working as a lighting designer.
www.joshgadsby.com