Abi Turner

(they/them)

Lighting Designer

A white person with long wavy ginger hair, smiling, wearing a navy blue sweatshirt, hoop earrings and yellow eyeshadow

Abi works both in Lighting Design and Access Consultation. Abi has worked with companies and organisations including Flawbored (Untapped Award winner 2023, Offie Nominated for Access), the Donmar Warehouse (NT Live), Scottish Dance Theatre, the Watermill Theatre, and ASYLUM Arts.

Awards and Nominations

List Of Productions

2025

I DREAM IN COLOUR | Director: Max Percy | Omnibus Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Theatre 503

THIS CITY | Director: Nuna Sandy | Park Theatre / Company Three

ALL THE HAPPY THINGS | Director: Lucy Atkinson | Soho Theatre

2024

SURFACING | Director: Stephen Bailey | Blackpool Grand Theatre / Mercury Colchester / Nottingham Playhouse / Omnibus Theatre

MY CHAT WITH HAROLD PINTER | Director: Miriam Higgins | Old Fire Station Oxford / Camden People's Theatre

GROW UP | Director: Amber Ruby | Park Theatre/ Company Three

2023

SPUTNIK | Dundee Rep/ Scottish Dance Theatre

I DREAM IN COLOUR | Director: Max Percy | Camden People’s Theatre/ Bloomsbury Festival

I F*CKED YOU IN MY SPACESHIP | Director: Joseph Winer | Soho Upstairs

OPERATION HUMMINGBIRD | Director: Matt Harper-Hardcastle | York Theatre Royal/ Regional Tour

PRESSURE DROP | Director: Adam Karim | The Yard Theatre

SAVAGE HEART | Director: Natalya Micic | Pleasance Downstairs and Regional Tour

SURFACING | Director: Stephen Bailey | VAULT Festival

2022

A MONSTER CALLS | Director: Angharad Arnott Phillips | The Watermill Theatre

WHEN THIS IS OVER | Director: Ned Glasier | The Yard Theatre

ALL THE HAPPY THINGS | Director: Melina Namdar | Theatre 503

HOW DISABLED ARE YOU? | Director: Alistair Wilkinson | Park Theatre and Omnibus Theatre

A PARTNERSHIP | Director: Jack McMahon | Kings Head Theatre and Regional Tour

2021

ESSENTIALLY BLACK | Soho Theatre and Camden People’s Theatre

WHEN RACHEL MET FIONA | Director: Maya Shimmin | The Space

2020

THE GUT GIRLS | Director: Gary Pillai | Stratford Circus Arts Centre

AS ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER

HENRY V | Director: Max Webster | Donmar Warehouse

AS ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER

IT'S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE | Director: Josh Roche | New Diorama Theatre/ Edinburgh Fringe/ Vault Festival/ UK Tour

MILK AND GALL | Director: Lisa Spirling | Theatre 503

AS ACCESS CONSULTANT

ACCESS PILOT | Guildhall School of Music and Drama

PUTTING ON A RELAXED PERFORMANCE - WORKSHOP | Pleasance

GLASS | R&D | In association with Derby Theatre

I F*CKED YOU IN MY SPACESHIP | Soho Theatre

SURFACING | Vault Festival

IT'S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE | New Diorama Theatre/ Edinburgh Fringe/ Vault Festival/ UK Tour

ASYLUM GYM | In association with Asylum Arts

MILK AND GALL | Theatre503