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Francis Reid is a veteran freelance lighting designer and lecturer, writer and advisor on theatre design and technology. After reading science and psychology at Edinburgh University, he spent five years in stage and production management including Rep Drama, Touring Opera, Aldeburgh Festival and Edinburgh Fringe. He was lighting director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera throughout the decade of the sixties and subsequently responsible for the lighting design of over 300 productions including several in Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels, and over 30 in London (musicals such as Man of La Mancha, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Grease, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Anne of Green Gables; plays such as Sleuth, Move Over Mrs Markham, Vieux Carre, Soldiers, Flint, The Happy Apple, Anyone For Denis? - also many operas and over 60 pantomimes). From 1979 to 1981 he was director of the Theatre Royal in Bury St. Edmunds, and from 1982 to 1987 head of theatre design at London's Central School of Art & Design. He is currently a director of Festival City Theatres Trust in Edinburgh and was formerly on the boards of Norwich Puppet Theatre, Norwich Playhouse and Extemporary Dance Theatre. He taught Lighting Design at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1965 until 1983 and has been a regular visiting lecturer at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal since 1974. Francis Reid is the author of The Stage Lighting Handbook, now in its 6th edition and translated into Spanish and Swedish. Other titles include The Staging Handbook, Theatre Administration (also in Spanish), Designing For The Theatre, Stages For Tomorrow, The ABC of Stage Technology, The ABC of Stage Lighting, Lighting The Stage, The ABC of Theatre Jargon, Hearing the Light and Discovering Stage Lighting (also in French). He Provided the Theatre Buildings entry in Cambridge Guide to World Theatre and contributed to Making Space for Theatre. He was editor of TABS (1974-1977) and wrote for each of the 56 issues of CUE (1979-1988). He reviewed many new theatres for Architect's Journal and is a frequent contributor to journals of theatre design and technology.

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