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Tim Routledge is a British lighting designer, creative designer, and lighting director who works in television, music concerts, outdoor events, award shows, and variety shows. Routledge's recent work as Lighting Designer includes the Spice Girls Stadium Tour 2019, Stormzy's headline slot at Glastonbury Festival 2019, Beyonce Formation World Tour 2016, Sam Smith World Tour 2018, the live studio shows of the 2016/17/18/19 series of X Factor UK, solo tours and live TV concerts for musician Gary Barlow, Take That, Jeff Lynne's ELO, Royal Blood, Dave, Florence & The Machine, Rita Ora, and Steps.


Awards

In 2009 Routledge won the BAFTA Wales Best Lighting Director award for his work on the Grand Slam live concert celebrating the Welsh rugby team's Six Nations victory. In 2013 Routledge was a member of the team that won a Royal Television Society award for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert. In 2013 Routledge and his team were also nominated a BAFTA for the same event. Along with three other members of the lighting team, Routledge was nominated for an Emmy at the
65th Primetime Emmy Awards The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring the best in prime time television programming from June 1, 2012 until May 31, 2013, were held on Sunday, September 22, 2013 at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, California. CBS televised the cer ...
, scheduled for 22 September 2013 in
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, for Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Special, for their work on the
2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on the evening of Friday 27 July 2012 in the Olympic Stadium, London, during which the Games were formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II. As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proce ...
. Routledge was nominated as Moving Light Programmer, and the three other nominees for the ceremony are
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(Lighting Designer), Adam Bassett (Lighting Director) and Al Gurdon (Director of Photography). In 2014 Routledge became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff—the university that he originally studied at and graduated from with a degree in Technical Theatre.


References


External links


Tim Routledge's website

Tim discusses EU Regulations on the future of stage lighting in The Guardian

Future of lighting with todays Lighting Masters

"Inside The Isles Of Wonder – Lighting the London 2012 Ceremonies" by Tim Routledge, 6 June 2013

Interview with Tim Routledge in ''Lighting and Sound International''.
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