Lighting and Set Design by Zia Bergin-Holly
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Zia is an award winning Lighting and Set Designer. She works internationally designing for theatre, dance, opera and live music events.
 
​She is a B.A. (Hons) graduate of Drama and Theatre Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
She went on to participate on the Rough Magic SEEDS Programme 2012-2013 and was the Resident Associate Designer with PAN PAN Theatre 2016-2018.

​Her work has included designs for performances as part of the
Dublin and Belfast Theatre Festivals, The Dublin Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Vaults London, IPAY, On The Edge, The Next Wave, Galway International Arts, Kilkenny Arts, Baboró and 10 Days In Dublin festivals, as well as assistant design credits for performances on the West End. 
Awards/ Nominations:
Best Production Nomination - The Irish Times Theatre Awards - 2022
Production:
Solar Bones
Audience Choice Award Winner - The Irish Times Theatre Awards - 2020
Bread Not Profits
Outstanding Production Nomination - Theatre & Technology Awards - 2019
User Not Found
Show of the Week Winner - Vault Festival Awards - 2019
Vespertilio
Fringe Groundbreaker Award Winner - The Wee Review - 2018
User Not Found
Best Theatre Show Winner -  Broadway World - 2018
User Not Found
Best Lighting Design Winner - The Irish Times Theatre Awards - 2017
The Importance of Nothing
Best Lighting Design Nomination - Off West End Awards - 2017
Benighted
Fringe First Award Winner - The Scotsman - 2016
FABRIC
Best Production Nomination - The Irish Times Theatre Awards - 2015
On The Wire
Best Design Nomination - Absolut Fringe Festival - 2012
BROADENING
Best Lighting Design Winner - Irish Student Drama Association - 2009
Disco Pigs
Design Credits:

Theatre Credits :
Production
Company
Director
Venue
Credit
Year

The Border Game
Prime Cut and Lyric Theatre Belfast
Emma Jordan
Lyric Theatre Belfast
Lighting Designer
2021
Tonic
Fionn Foley and Rough Magic
Ronan Phelan
Kilkenny Arts and Dublin Fringe Festivals
Lighting and Set Designer
2021
Skin Hunger
Dante or Die
Daphna Attias
Stone Nest, London
Lighting Designer
2021
In These Four Walls
Arts Ed
Ameera Conrad
Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre,
Arts Ed, London
Lighting Design
2020
Totally Over You
Arts Ed
Ameera Conrad
Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre,
Arts Ed, London

Lighting Design
2020
EMBARGO
Fishamble
Maisie Lee
Pump House, Dublin Port
Lighting and Set Designer
2020
Solar Bones
Rough Magic
Lynne Parker
Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny
Lighting and Set Designer
2020
TWO
Hull Truck Theatre and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
Mark Babych
Hull Truck Theatre and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
Lighting Designer
2020
MEAT
45 North and Theatre 503
Lucy Jane Atkinson
Theatre 503, London
Lighting Designer
2020
Flights
One Duck Theatre
Thomas Martin
Glór, Ennis;
Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Omnibus Theatre, London
Lighting Designer
2020
Promises Promises
Centrál Színhás
Puskás Tamás
Centrál Színhás, Budapest
Lighting Designer
2019
Teenage Dick
Donmar Warehouse
Michael Longhurst
Donmar Warehouse, London
Associate Lighting Designer
2019
Frantic Ignition 2019
Frantic Assembly
Neil Bettles, Sean Hollands and Gavin Maxwell
Theatre Peckham
Lighting Designer
2019
Top Hat
SilverBlue Entertainment and Cunard
Tom O'Brien
Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth cruises
Lighting Designer
2019
Cleft
Rough Magic
Lynne Parker
Glór, Ennis;
Galway Internatinal Arts Festival;
Kilkenny Arts Festival
Lighting Designer
2019
User Not Found (Revival)
Dante or Die
Daphna Attias
UK Tour;
Next Wave Festival, New York;
Print Screen Festival, Holon
Lighting and Set Designer
2019
Bullet Tongue Reloaded
The Big House
Maggie Norris
The Big House, London
Set Designer
2019
Bread Not Profits
Gúna Nua Theatre
Terry O'Donovan
Cleeve's Factory, Limerick
Lighting Designer
2019
Apologia
English Theatre Frankfurt
Audrey Sheffield
English Theatre Frankfurt
Lighting Designer
2019
They Called Her Vivaldi (Revival)
Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern and Carl Kennedy
North America Tour
Lighting and Set Designer
2019
Vespertilio
Fight and Hope
Lucy Jane Atkinson
The Cavern, at The Vaults, London
Smock Alley, Boys School, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2019
Ghost Girl //
Gwei Mui
Jennifer Tang
Jennifer Tang
Camden People's Theatre, London
Lighting Designer
2019
PRAVDA
Arts Ed
Jennifer Tang
Arts Ed
Lighting Designer
2018
Bullet Tongue
The Big House
Maggie Norris
The Big House, London
Set Designer
2018
The Misfits
The Corn Exchange
Annie Ryan
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2018
The Lion In Winter
The English Theatre Frankfurt
Derek Anderson
The English Theatre Frankfurt
Lighting Designer
2018
User Not Found
Dante or Die
Daphna Attias
Jeelie Piece Cafe
(Site Specific at The Travese Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe)
Lighting and Set Designer
2018
A Feast of Bones (Revival)
Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Lighting Designer
2018
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Northern Stage
Mark Calvert
Northern Stage, Stage 1, Newcastle
Lighting Designer
2018
A Further Shore
Poetry Ireland
Lynne Parker
Milton Court Concert Hall, London and
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Lighting Designer
2018
Hand To God
The English Theatre Frankfurt
Derek Anderson
The English Theatre Frankfurt
Lighting Designer
2018
They Called Her Vivaldi (Revival)
Theatre Lovett
Carl Kennedy and Muireann Ahern
The Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin and
Irish National Tour
Lighting and Set Designer
2017
Melt
Rough Magic
Lynne Parker
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2017
The Shitstorm
The Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe Festival
Maeve Stone
Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2017
You Forgot The Mince
Imagine If Theatre
Stephen Whitson
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe
Lighting Designer
2017
Annie
Cork Opera House
Ronan Phelan
Cork Opera House
Lighting Designer
2017
The Ladykillers
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Jimmy Fay
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Lighting Designer
2017
The Train
Rough Magic
Lynne Parker
The Abbey Theatre, Dublin and
The MAC, Belfast
Associate Lighting and Set Designer
2017
The Importance of Being Earnest
Bruiser Theatre
Lisa May
The MAC, Belfast
Lighting Designer
2017
Before Monsters Were Made (Revival)
15th Oak
Ronan Phelan and Ben Kidd
Irish National Tour
Lighting and Set Designer
2017
They Called Her Vivaldi (Revival)
Theatre Lovett
Carl Kennedy and Muireann Ahern
Capitol Theatre, Overture Arts Centre, Madison Wisconsin
Lighting and Set Designer
2017
Benighted
Damien Tracey Productions in association with The Old Red Lion
Stephen Whitson
The Old Red Lion, London
Lighting Designer
2016
The Importance of Nothing
PAN PAN
Gavin Quinn
Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2016
The Nest
The Lyric Theatre Belfast and The Young Vic London
Ian Rickson
The Lyric Theatre Belfast and The Young Vic London
Lighting Designer
2016
GRACE JONES:
​Bloodlight and Bami
Musical of My Life Films DAC
Sophie Fiennes
Olympia Theatre Dublin
Dublin Unit: Production Designer
2016
FABRIC
Robin Rayner Productions Ltd. in association with TREMers
Tom O'Brien
English National Tour and Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe
Lighting Designer
2016
Northern Star
Rough Magic
Lynne Parker
The Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
The Tron, Glasgow.
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
Lighting and Set Designer
2016
Inhabitance
Glass Doll Productions
Ronan Phelan
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2016
The Called Her Vivaldi
Theatre Lovett
Carl Kennedy and Muireann Ahern
Irish National Tour
Lighting and Set Designer
2016
East of Berlin
Brinkmanship Theatre
Lee Wilson
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2016
The Dead
Dublin Theatre Festival
Conor McPherson
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Stage Designer
2016
Enjoy
Rough Magic
Zoe Reardon
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2015
Anna Bella Eema
Rough Magic
Shane Ward
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2015
The Night Alive
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast and Dublin Theatre Festival
Conor McPherson
The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin and The Lyric Theatre, Belfast 
Lighting Designer
2015
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern and Louis Lovett
Smock Alley, Boys School, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2015
East of Berlin
The Lir Academy
Lee Wilson
The Lir, Studio 2, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2015
Saints and Sinners
Mouth on Fire
Cathal Quinn
The New Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2015
Teanga an Ghrá
Guthanna Binne Síoraí
Tristan Rosenstock
The New Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2015
Before Monsters Were Made
15th Oak
Ben Kidd
Project Arts Centre,  Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2015
HUMAN CHILD (Revival)
Collapsing Horse
Dan Colley
Irish National Tour
Lighting and Set Designer
2015
Northern Star
The Lir Academy
Lynne Parker
The Lir, Studio 1, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2015
 FUSED (revival)
Dan Bergin
Dan Bergin
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
On The Wire
Wildebeest Theatre
Terry O'Donovan
The Sailor's Home, Limerick
Lighting Designer
2014
Mavericks
Mavericks Theatre Co.
Nick Lee
Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2014
The Unquiet Grave of Garcia Lorca
Theatre Sotto Voce
Hamish McDougal
The Drayton Arms, London
Lighting Designer
2014
Reckoners
15th Oak
Dan Herd
The Lir, Studio 1, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
Everlasting Voices
Guthana Binne Síoraí
Tristan Rosenstock
Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCD, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
HUMAN CHILD (Revival)
Collapsing Horse
Dan Colley
Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
The Last 5 Years
Trees Rd Productions
Christopher Collins
Project Arts Centre,
Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
The Separation
Pixilated
Simon Evans
Project Arts Centre,
Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer

2014
LAMBO (Revival)
Underscore_
​Productions
Ronan Phelan
Irish National Tour
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
Flesh and Blood Women
Green Shoot Productions
Noreen Kershaw
Grand Opera House,
Baby Grand Studio, Belfast and National Tour
Lighting Designer
2014
I Can't Sing!
Stage Entertainment/
Syco Entertainment
Sean Foley
London Palladium,
West End
Assistant Lighting Designer
2014
Assassins
Rough Magic
Ronan Phelan
Project Arts Centre,
Dublin

Lighting and Set Designer
2013
Way To Heaven
Rough Magic
Rosemary McKenna
Project Arts Centre,
Dublin

Lighting and Set Designer
2013
LAMBO
Underscore_
​Productions
Ronan Phelan
The New Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
FUSED
Dan Bergin
Dan Bergin
The Lir, Studio 1, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
Digging For Fire
Rough Magic
Matt Torney
Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Assistant Lighting Designer
2013
HUMAN CHILD
Collapsing Horse
Dan Colley
Smock Alley, Boys School, Dublin and Mermaid Arts Centre, Co Wicklow
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
BROADENING (Revival)
Glass Doll Productions
Ronan Phelan
The Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
Broken Promise Land
Stones Throw
Aoife Spillaine Hinks
Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
Clear_The_Air
Underscore_Productions
Ronan Phelan
Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
Everyone is King Lear in His Own Home
Pan Pan
Gavin Quinn
Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space, Dublin
Assistant Lighting Designer
2012
BROADENING
Glass Doll Productions
Ronan Phelan
The Lir, Studio 2  Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2012
Anna In Between
Pillow Talk
Rosemary McKenna
The Players Theatre, TCD, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2012
Love in the Title
Room To Move
David Ferguson
The New Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2012
Durang Durang
Brazen Tales
Ronan Phelan
The Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2012
Purple
Edwina Casey
Edwina Casey
Project Arts Centre,
Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2012
The Lulu House
Siren Productions
Selina Cartmell
The James Joyce House, Dublin
Assistant Lighting Designer and Technical Manager
2011
Does Anybody Ever
The Children
Sophie Meehan
The Players Theatre, TCD, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2011
Do You Read Me?
Talking Shop Ensemble and Shaun Dunne
Oonagh Murphy
Smock Alley, Boys School, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2011
MaDam
Eleonore Nicholas
Eleonore Nicholas
The Pearse Centre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2011
Bedbound (Revival)
Pillow Talk
Rosemary McKenna
The New Theatre Dublin
Set Designer
2011
The Living End
Pillow Talk
Rosemary McKenna
The New Theatre
Lighting and Set Designer
2011
Lovers
Room to Move
David Ferguson
The New Theatre
Lighting Designer
2011
I'm a Homebird (Its Very Hard)
Talking Shop Ensemble and Shaun Dunne
Oonagh Murphy
The Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2011
Bedbound
Pillow Talk
Rosemary McKenna
The Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCD
Set Designer
2010
Reunion
The New Theatre
Ronan Wilmot
The New Theatre and National Tour
Lighting Designer
2010
Paperboy
Engine Thirteen
Tara Robinson
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2010
Oedipus The King
Classic Stage Ireland
Andy Hinds
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2010
The Pillowman
DU Players
Rosemary McKenna
The Players Theatre, TCD, Dublin
Set Designer
2010
Slat
Featherhead Productions
Trevor Knight
Smock Alley, Empty Space, Dublin
Assistant Lighting Designer
2009
Disco Pigs
DU Players
Tara Robinson
The Players Theatre, TCD, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2009

Opera Credits:
Production
Company
Director
Venue
Credit
Year

#BURNED (The Death By Fire of Giordano Bruno)
META PRODUCTIONS
Eric Fraad
Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny and Mermaid Theatre, Bray
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
The Perfect American
English National Opera / Teatro Real Madrid
Phelim McDermitt
London Coliseum
Assistant Lighting Designer
2013

Dance Credits:
Production
Company
Choreographer
Venue
Credit
Year

The Bystander
Junk Ensemble
Jessica and Megan Kennedy
Axis Theatre, and Project Arts Centre, Dublin and
The Mermaid Theatre, Wicklow
Lighting Designer
2018
 Romeo & Juliet (Revival)
Ballet Ireland
Morgann Runacre-Temple
Irish National Tour 2017
Lighting Designer
2017
Images Ballet Company 2017 Tour
Images Ballet Company (London Studio Centre)
Jennifer Jackson, Matthew Hart, Morgann Runacre-Temple, Liz Aggiss
UK Tour
Lighting Designer
2017
Unspoken
Rough Magic
Aisling McCormick
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2015
The Nutcracker
Ballet Ireland
Morgann Runacre-Temple
Gaeity Theatre, Dublin and UK and Irish Tour
Lighting Designer
2012
A Christmas Tale and The Nutcracker Suite
Irish National Youth Ballet
Stephen Brennan
Pavilion Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2012
Romeo & Juliet
Ballet Ireland
Morgann Runacre-Temple
Irish National Tour 2012
Lighting Designer
2012
The Little Mermaid, String Serenade and Kiss me Kate
Irish National Youth Ballet
Stephen Brennan, Kilian O'Callaghan, Sarah Thornton
O'Reilly Theatre and Civic Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2012
The Snow Queen and The Nutcracker Suite
Irish National Youth Ballet
Stephen Brennan
O'Reilly Theatre and Pavilion Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2011
The Nutcracker
Irish National Youth Ballet
Katherine Lewis
O'Reilly Theatre and Pavilion Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2010
The Work The Work
Fitzgerald and Stapleton
Emma Fitzgerald and Áine Stapleton
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2010
Lulu
Samuel Beckett Theatre
Emma Martin
Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCD, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2009

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