Tad is a designer and educator.  Having cut his teeth at DHA Lighting and the West End in the 1990s, later retraining in architecture, he has worked with a number manufacturers and design practices;  most recently as design director at architectural consultancy, Light Bureau.

He now works independently across both theatre and architectural lighting and splits his time between London and Kraków, lighting all sorts of things – from musicals to suspension bridges – and developing professional training.  He teaches architectural lighting on the MSc programme at UCL's Bartlett School and has research interests in colour theory and lighting controls.

Tad’s prized possession is an ABTT product-of-the-year silver hook clamp (awarded many years ago for a big, funny-shaped gobo).  His least favourite thing is assessing dissertations which may or may not have been produced by AI…