Alex Lewer

Alex is a lighting designer and technical director based in London. Since 2010, he has been technical director for the critically-acclaimed theatre company DELIRIUM and has worked on four of their major productions: Your Nation Loves You (the first promenade play staged in The Old Vic Tunnels), Go To Your God Like a Soldier (in Edinburgh and London), Oranges on the Brain and From Where I’m Standing. It was for this last show that Alex developed CueSurface™, a system that allows iPads to be used as wirelessly-controlled synchronised video surfaces in theatre productions - believed to be a world-first.

He was nominated for the Best Lighting Designer Off West End ("Offie") award for Simon Stephens' One Minute and has recently been represented in London by Lipstick at Southwark Playhouse, critcally-acclaimed Clybourne Park at Park Theatre and in the West End with I Wish You Well (Criterion Theatre) and Boy Out Of The City  (Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue)

Alex designed award-winning and multi-nominated Vermin at the Arcola Theatre in 2023 (Arcola Theatre - revivied at the Park Theatre, London and Lowry Manchester in 2025.   In the same year he resumed his collaboration with DELIRIUM and director Oliver Kaderbhai with a new play about the legendary trumpeter Miles Davis, MILES at Summerhall Arts, Edinburgh, selling out and garnering 4 and 5* reviews across the board.   MILES re-opened in London at Southwark Playhouse in February 2026 to considerable acclaim.