Martin started in the theatre over 30 years ago at the tender age of 7 as a female villager in the Peterborough Gang Show! After ten years on stage he moved over to the ‘dark side’ where he has stayed ever since. Although involved with all technical aspects of theatre, lighting is his chosen speciality – both as a hobby and now as a professional freelance lighting technician/designer.

After moving to Surrey 12 years ago, Martin lit mainly plays, moving back into musicals when joining Ghosts in 2000. His recent successes have been lighting the award-winning World Premiere of “Lola”, winning the NODA technical excellence award for Tim Rice’s “Blondel”, best lighting award at Woking Drama Festival for “Forward to the Right”, and his technical direction of the amateur premiere of “Saucy Jack & The Space Vixens” at Guildford’s Electric Theatre. He has, of course, kept his hand in with lighting some plays in between musicals!

The lighting design for “Into the Woods” is a closely-guarded secret, but due to Martin’s experience with everything from moving lights to chroma deck, and the fact he will be using the top-of-the-range wysiwyg lighting design programme and a bank of computers it seems set to look extraordinary.