Jai Morjaria
Lighting Designer
Photograph: Cameron Slater Photography
Heads of Department
Heads of Department
Jai trained at RADA and won the 2016 Association of Lighting Designer’s ETC Award.
Jai Morjaria’s delightful lighting design
The Guardian on The Secret Garden (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre)
brilliant lighting by Jai Morjaria
WhatsOnStage on Barnum (Watermill Theatre)
Smoke curls up; embers glow, finely lit by Jai Morjaria
The Guardian on Macbeth (Wessex Grove/International Tour)
Jai Morjaria’s lighting is excellent
Evening Standard on Graceland (Royal Court)
In Development
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2024 | Rose Theatre Kingston | Dir. Elin Schofield |
2025 | Theatre Royal Stratford East/Leeds Playhouse/Nottingham Playhouse | Dir. Amy Leach |
2025 | Donmar Warehouse | Dir. Lynette Linton |
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
2024 | Duke of York's Theatre/ATG | Dir. Lynette Linton |
2024 | Barbican Theatre/Royal Shakespeare Company | Dir. Emma Rice |
2024 | Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg | Dir. Richard Twyman |
2024 | Garrick Theatre/Kenny Wax Ltd/Ameena Hamid Productions | Dir. Lucy Moss & Ellen Kane |
2024 | Watermill Theatre | Dir. Jonathan O'Boyle |
2024 | Regent's Park Open Air Theatre | Dir. Anna Himali Howard |
2024 | Barbican Theatre/Royal Shakespeare Company (Swan Theatre) | Dir. Emma Rice |
2023 | Factory International | Dir. Will Brenton |
2023 | Wessex Grove/International Tour | Dir. Simon Godwin |
2023 | Tilted/UK Tour | Dir. Sam Hodges |
2023 | Nottingham Playhouse | Dir. Stephen Bailey |
2023 | Adelphi Theatre | Dir. Nick Evans |
2023 | Unicorn Theatre/Roald Dahl Company | Dir. Milli Bhatia |
2023 | Bristol Old Vic/Assembly Rooms | Dir. Sally Cookson |
2023 | Royal Court (Jerwood Theatre Downstairs) | Dir. Vicky Featherstone |
2023 | Theatre Royal Haymarket | Dir. Daniel Raggett |
2023 | Bush Theatre | Dir. Lynette Linton & Daniel Bailey |
2023 | Arcola Theatre/New Earth/Storyhouse | Dir. Mingyu Lin |
2023 | Lyric Hammersmith/Sheffield Theatres | Dir. Daniel Raggett |
2023 | Royal Court (Jerwood Theatre Upstairs) | Dir. Anna Himali Howard |
2023 | Ambassadors Theatre/Garrick Theatre | Dir. Luke Sheppard |
2023 | Soho Theatre | Dir. Zach James |
2022 | National Theatre (Lyttelton) | Dir. Clint Dyer |
2022 | St Ann's Warehouse/Berkeley Rep/US Tour | Dir. Emma Rice |
2022 | Yard Theatre/ETT/HOME | Dir. James Macdonald |
2022 | Donmar Warehouse | Dir. Natalie Abrahami |
2022 | Young Vic (Main House) | Dir. Milli Bhatia |
2022 | Sheffield Theatres | Dir. Elin Schofield |
2022 | Bush Theatre | Dir. Lynette Linton |
2022 | Liverpool Everyman | Dir. James Baker |
2022 | Wise Children/National Theatre (Lyttelton)/Bristol Old Vic | Dir. Emma Rice |
2021 | Trinity Theatre | Dir. Sean Turner |
2021 | Northern Stage | Dir. Maria Crocker |
2021 | Hampstead Theatre Downstairs | Dir. Tessa Walker |
2021 | Bush Theatre | Dir. Anthony Simpson-Pike |
2021 | Turbine Theatre | Dir. Luke Sheppard |
2021 | Hope Mill Theatre | Dir. Nick Bagnall |
2021 | Duchess Theatre | Dir. Bronagh Lagan |
2021 | Bush Theatre | Dir. Daniel Bailey/Latekid & Avenhue |
2020 | Arts Ed | Dir. Tom Wright |
2019 | Dukes Theatre, Lancaster | Dir. Sarah Punshon |
2019 | Rose Theatre Kingston | Dir. Fay Lomas |
2019 | Vaults | Dir. Alexander Lass |
2019 | Soho Theatre | Dir. Lakesha Arie-Angelo |
2019 | Unicorn Theatre | Dir. Justin Audibert |
2019 | King's Head Theatre | Dir. Harry Mackrill |
2019 | Complicite | Devised by The Company |
2019 | Park Theatre | Dir. Lydia Parker |
2019 | Soho Theatre | Dir. Charlotte Bennett |
2019 | Unicorn Theatre | Dir. Justin Audibert & Rachel Bagshaw |
2019 | Kiln Theatre | Dir. Stevan Mijailovic, Gail Babb, Harry Mackrill, Tash Marks, Ruby Thompson & Dionne Reid |
2019 | Jermyn Street Theatre | Dir. Tatty Hennessy |
2019 | Dukes Theatre, Lancaster | Dir. Rod Dixon |
2019 | Central School of Speech and Drama | Dir. Maja Milatovic-Ovadia |
2019 | Theatre503 | Dir. Kate O'Connor |
2018 | Capitol Theatre, Horsham | Dir. Nick Mowat |
2018 | Stantonbury Theatre | Dir. Lucy Cutherbertson |
2018 | Hampstead Theatre Downstairs | Dir. Lakesha Arie-Angelo |
2018 | Orange Tree Theatre | Dir. Paul Miller |
2018 | Exmoor National Park | Dir. Scott Le Crass |
2018 | Surrey Arts/Brooklands in Sound | Dir. Lucy Bradley |
2018 | RIB Cunard Productions/RADA | Dir. Nona Shepphard |
2018 | Akademi Dance | Dir. Mira Kaushik |
2018 | NYMT | Dir. Kate Golledge |
2018 | The Plasticine Men | Dir. Simon Day |
THE MAN WILL KILL US ALL 2018 | Academy of Live and Recorded Arts | Dir. Luke Barnes |
THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE PEACE 2018 | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama | Dir. Martin Berry |
ROBIN HOOD 2017 | Greenwich Theatre | Dir. Lucy Cuthbertson |
ALICE IN WONDERLAND 2017 | Birmingham Old Rep | Dir. Scott Le Crass |
BITCHED 2017 | Kali Theatre | Dir. Juliet Knight |
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE 2017 | The Other Room, Cardiff | Dir. Chelsey Gillard |
KANYE THE FIRST 2017 | HighTide Festival | Dir. Andrew Twyman |
LORNA DOONE 2017 | Exmoor National Park | Dir. Scott Le Crass |
SUCCESS 2017 | Lyceum Youth Theatre | Dir. Jordan Blackwood |
THE CRUCIBLE 2017 | Academy of Live and Recorded Arts | Dir. Sean Turner |
A LIE OF THE MIND 2017 | Southwark Playhouse/Defibrillator Theatre | Dir. James Hillier |
46 BEACON 2017 | Trafalgar Studios 2 | Dir. Alexander Lass |
OUT THERE ON FRIED MEAT RIDGE ROAD 2017 | White Bear Theatre/Trafalgar Studios 2 | Dir. Harry Burton |
SCROOGE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES 2017 | Theatre503 | Dir. Simon Evans |
SISTER ACT: THE MUSICAL 2016 | Alban Arena | Dir. Alan Cox |
TRIDENT MOON 2016 | Finborough Theatre | Dir. Anna Pool |
ACORN 2016 | Courtyard Theatre | Dir. Tatty Hennessy |
TONIGHT AT THE MUSUEM CHARLIE CHAPLIN 2016 | Kensington Cinema Museum | Dir. Gillian Plowman, Pamela Howard & Chris Butler |
'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE 2016 | Tristan Bates Theatre/Lazarus Theatre Company | Dir. Ricky Dukes |
MACBETH 2016 | Exmoor National Park | Dir. Scott Le Crass |
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM 2016 | Southwark Playhouse | Dir. Simon Evans |
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA 2016 | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art | Dir. Eve Shapiro |
PAINS OF YOUTH 2016 | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art | Dir. Polly Findlay |
OBAMA-OLOGY 2015 | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art | Dir. Paulette Randall |
COMPLICITE YOUNG COMPANY 2015 | Complicite | Dir. Chelsea Goddard & Sean Turner |
YOUNG STUDIO 3 2015 | National Theatre | Dir. Adele Thomas |
Opera
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN 2017 | Arcola Theatre/The Opera Company | Dir. Guido Martin-Brandis |
A VILLAGE OF ROMEO AND JULIET 2017 | New Sussex Opera | Dir. Susannah Walters |
A TRIP TO THE MOON 2017 | London Symphony Orchestra | Dir. Karen Gillingham |