About
Matt Burke is a lighting designer for theatre and dance.
Recent designs include “Ironbound” by Martyna Majok at The Abbey Theatre Peacock Stage at Dublin Theatre Festival 2023, Once Off Productions & Galway International Arts Festival “Unspeakable Conversations” by Christian O'Reilly at GIAF 2024, and Mufutau Yusuf’s contemporary dance duo “IMPASSE”, touring throughout 2024. He has worked extensively with The National Irish Language Theatre, An Taibhdhearc, at the Galway International Arts Festival from 2013 to 2018.
In 2019 he graduated with an MFA in Lighting design from The Lir Academy, Trinity College Dublin.
He has been awarded the Arts Council Agility Award twice - in 2021 to support research and developing artistic process, and in 2023 with mentorship from eminent UK lighting designer Paule Constable.
(Headshot by Martin Maguire)
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