Lyn Gardner (The Guardian) recently said the following of his work on 'Strippers & Gentlemen':
"all power to director and designer Dan Marsden, who demonstrates real flair and ambition with this piece"
Whilst training at The Central School of Speech & Drama, Dan founded performance company Son et Lumière and staged his first performance (My Arm by Tim Crouch) in July 2006. He then went on to produce the sell-out production 'Blind' at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in May 2007 and collaborated with LDR on the production 'Sfumato' which premiered at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the special Theatre Design Friday Late in February 2008. At the end of his degree, Dan completed a written study entitled 'Scenography | Framing Performance in the 21st Century' and shortly after directed & designed the critically acclaimed site-sensitive production of Rose Lewenstein's 'Strippers & Gentlemen' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his own creative production company - SEL Live.
Work
- 2008, Production Manager | Lighting Designer, Inside Out - Sarah Quelch, Battersea Arts Centre
- 2008, Production Manager | Lighting Designer, The Fire in the Woods - YPT3 & Nic Green, Battersea Arts Centre
- 2008, Producer | Director | Designer, Strippers & Gentlemen - [SEL] Live with Rose Lewenstein, C Soco, Edinburgh
- 2008, Lighting, Basement Jaxx DJ Set, Battersea Arts Centre, London
- 2008, Producer | Director | Set, Lighting & Video Design, Sfumato - LDR, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- 2008, Sound & Lighting Production, Masque of the Red Death - Punchdrunk, Battersea Arts Centre, London
- 2008, Director | Set Designer, Opening Weekend After Parties [Liverpool - European Capital of Culture 2008] - Restless Nights, Empire Theatre, Echo Arena Steps & Albert Dock, Liverpool
- 2008, Associate Lighting Designer, Leaving - Split Soul Dance Theatre, Camden People's Theatre & Greenwich Playhouse, London
- 2007, Mentor, Endurance - Illegal Illuminations, Electricians Shop, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
- 2007, Designer | Photographer, Collaboration - Manuel Vason, Jo Cecil, Phil Nottingham, Claire Smith, Ruby Baker, Madaleine Trigg, Lianne Howard-Dace, Anisha Fields, MV Studio, Embassy Theatre & ICA, London
- 2007, Producer | Director | Designer, Blind by Alan Fielden - Son et Lumiere, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- 2007, Production Manager, The Accidental Festival '07, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- 2006, Author | Designer | Photographer, Dia De Los Muertos - Son et Lumiere, 8 Russell Terrace, Leamington Spa
- 2006, Design Assistant | Set Builder | Tech Manager Cove, Faust - Punchdrunk, 21 Wapping Lane, London
- 2006, Producer | Director | Lighting & Video Designer, My Arm by Tim Crouch - Son et Lumiere, Buxton
- 2006, Sound Designer, Where Shadows of the World Appear - The Alternative Theatre, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
