Ben Jacobs

Ben trained in Lighting Design at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.  

He won the 2025 Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design his work on Oliver! and has been nominated for the Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design four times, as well as winning the award in 2018 and 2022. 

Recent Lighting Designer credits include: Pitchfork Disney (King’s Head Theatre), Oliver! (Chichester & Gielgud), 1984 (Hackney Town Hall), Miss Julie (Park Theatre), Singin’ in the Rain (Teatro Sergio Cardoso, São Paulo), King Hamlin (Park Theatre), Evita (Parque Villa-Lobos, São Paulo), Dawn French is a Huge Twat (UK & international tour), Salome, Seussical, Bring it On (Southwark Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wilton's Music Hall), Caterpillar (Stephen Joseph Theatre), The Sorrows of Satan (Brocket Hall), Dolphins & Sharks, Melting Pot, Maggie & Pierre (Finborough Theatre), NoMad, Lord of the Flies, Edward II (Greenwich Theatre), Nora: A Doll's House, H.R.Aitch, Heartbreak House, Carmen, Twang, Privates on Parade, Imagine This (Union Theatre), Midlife Cowboy, Freefall (Pleasance Theatre), Sister (Ovalhouse), People We Didn't Quite Meet, Red, Are We Stronger Than Winston (The Place), Proud, Southern Belles, Stripped, The Stones (King's Head Theatre), One Giant Leap, Gentleman Jack, Taro, Precious Little, The White Rose, Kes, Golden F**king Years, Three Sisters, Dracula, Cinderella, Macbeth, The State of Things, Frankenstein, Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Side by Side by Sondheim (Jack Studio Theatre), Caterpillar, In Event of Moone Disaster, The State We're In, Elexion, Red Like Embers (Theatre 503), Adam & Eve, Foul Pages (The Hope Theatre), The Lower Depths, Hamlet, Burial at Thebes, Love & Information, Secret Circus (RCSSD), Cuncrete, Mrs Armitage and the Big Wave (UK tour), Jamaica Inn, I Love my Love, The Lost Happy Endings, Fanny & Faggot (Tabard Theatre), Macbeth (Bussey Building), Lunatic, The League of Youth (Theatre N16). 

Associate/Assistant Lighting Designer credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Fiddler on the Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Old Friends (Gielgud) The Motive and the Cue (Noël Coward), Dear England (National & Gielgud), Les Misérables (UK tour/West End/International), Anna (National Theatre), Le Nozze di Figaro (Glyndebourne), Sondheim’s Old Friends (Sondheim), The Lorax (Old Vic), Ostalgie (National Theatre Studio), Project O (Southbank Centre), Crave (Prague Quadrennial).