Tamykha Patterson
Technical Theatre Apprenticeship based at New Wimbledon Theatre (Ambassador Theatre Group).
Tamykha is a Freelance ETC Eos Lighting Programmer and Assistant/Associate Lighting Designer. Tamykha has had the privilege to work with prestigious Lighting Designers such as Jon Clark, Paule Constable, Rick Fisher, Jessica Hung Han Yun, Bruno Poet, Japhy Weideman.
In 2020, Tamykha founded the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) Emerging Excellence Award and UK Theatre and Live Events Apprenticeship Network.
As Associate Lighting Designer:
Disney’s AIDA (AFAS Circustheater|Scheveningen), Cock (Ambassadors), Marys Seacole (Donmar Warehouse), Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (Lyric), Dear Evan Hansen (Noël Coward) and Anna X (The Lowry).
As Assistant Lighting Designer:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Regent|Australia, London Palladium), Evita (Regent’s Park Open Air), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge) and Tina – The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych).
As Associate Lighting Designer and Lighting Programmer:
My Neighbour Totoro (Barbican).
As Lighting Programmer:
Tina – Das Tina Turner Musical (Apollo|Stuttgart),
Patriots and NTLive: Best Of Enemies (Noël Coward),
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead ( Theatre Royal Plymouth, Bristol Old Vic),
The Doctor (Theatre Royal Brighton),
Medea (The Hub),
The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s),
Oklahoma! (Young Vic),
Cyrano de Bergerac (Harold Pinter, Theatre Royal Glasgow & Brooklyn Academy of Music),
Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! (Theatre Royal Plymouth, The Lowry & Sadler’s Wells),
J’Ouvert and Anna X (Harold Pinter),
Once On This Island and Carousel (Regent’s Part Open Air),
A Christmas Carol (Bridge),
Snowflake, Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me, Black Love and The Darkest Part Of The Night (Kiln),
The Intelligence Park (Linbury, Royal Opera House),
Nine Night (Trafalgar Studios),
Frankenstein (Perth),
seven methods of killing kylie jenner, Midnight Movies and two Palestinians go dogging (Royal Court).
Awards & Achievements
Tamykha was the 2020 recipient of the Worshipful Company of Lightmongers Award for New Talent in Entertainment Lighting in conjunction with the Association of Lighting Production and Design (ALPD).
The Association of Lighting Designers Lumiere 20:20 Recipient (2020)
The Association of Lighting Designers and The Worshipful Company of Lightmongers recipient for New Talent in Entertainment Lighting (2020)
Jack Petchey Outstanding Achiever Award for Lighting and Technical Contributions to Younger Generation Theatre Group (2017)
Best Young Business Person of the Year Award (2014)
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: tamykhapatterson@gmail.com