Zia Bergin-Holly ~ Lighting & Set Design
Zia Bergin-Holly

Zia Bergin-Holly

Photo by Tamara Him

Zia is an award winning Lighting and Set Designer. She works internationally designing for theatre, site-specific 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 (Brooklyn), 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 OffFest Nomination - 2023

Off West End Awards / OFFIES

Fringe First Award Winner - 2023

The Scotsman

Best Production Nomination - 2022

The Irish Times Theatre Awards

Best Design Nomination - 2022

Dublin Fringe Festival

IDEA Production Finalist - 2022

Off West End Awards / OFFIES

Audience Choice Award Winner - 2020

The Irish Times Theatre Awards

Outstanding Production Nomination - 2019

Theatre & Technology Awards

Show of the Week Winner - 2019

Vault Festival

Best Theatre Show Winner - 2018

Broadway World

Fringe Groundbreaker Award Winner - 2018

The Wee Review

Best Lighting Design Winner - 2017

The Irish Times Theatre Awards

Best Lighting Design Nomination - 2016

Off West End Awards / OFFIES

Judges Special Award Nomination - 2016

The Irish Times Theatre Awards

Fringe First Award Winner - 2016

The Scotsman

Best Production Nomination - 2015

The Irish Times Theatre Awards

Best Design Nomination - 2012

Dublin Absolut Fringe Festival

Best Lighting Design Winner - 2009

Irish Student Drama Association

Disco Pigs

Design Credits

Theatre - Design Credits

Production

Company

Director

Venue

Credit

Year

Prickly

DLR Mill Theatre Dundrum

Maisie Lee

DLR Mill Theatre Dundrum; Backstage Theatre Longford; Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda

Lighting Designer

2024

Absolute Hell

The Lir Academy

Davey Kelleher

The Lir, Studio 1

Lighting Designer

2023

The Loved Ones

Rough Magic and Gate Theatre

Ronan Phelan

Gate Theatre, Dublin

Lighting Design

2023

Heaven (Revival)

Fishamble Theatre Company

Jim Culleton

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe

Set Designer and Lighting Re-designer

2023

Freefalling

Rough Magic and Lime Tree / Belltable in association with Fidget Feet Aerial Dance

Lynne Parker

Belltable, Limerick and The Everyman, Cork

Lighting Designer

2023

Heaven (Revival)

Fishamble Theatre Company

Jim Culleton

59E59 Theaters, New York

Set Designer

2023

Solar Bones (Revival)

Rough Magic

Lynne Parker

Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Lighting and Set Designer

2022

Heaven

Fishamble Theatre Company

Jim Culleton

Draíocht Blanchardstown and Pavilion Theatre Dun Laoghaire, Dublin Theatre Festival​

Set Designer

2022

Accents

Project Arts Centre and Kate Ferris in asscociation with Mermaid Arts Centre

Clare O'Reilly

Project Arts Centre

Lighting Designer

2022

The Border Game

Prime Cut

Emma Jordan

The Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Lighting Designer

2021

Tonic

Rough Magic and Fionn Foley

Ronan Phelan

2021

Lighting and Set Designer

2021

Skin Hunger

Dante or Die

Daphna Attias

Stone Nest, London

Lighting Designer

2021

Totally Over You

ARTS ED

Ameera Conrad

Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre, London

Lighting Designer

2020

In These Four Walls

ARTS ED

Ameera Conrad

Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre, London

Lighting Designer

2020

EMBARGO

Fishamble Theatre Company

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

Mark Babych

Hull Truck

Lighting Designer

2020

MEAT

45 North

Lucy Jane Atkinson

Theatre 503

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

Top Hat

SilverBlue Entertainment and Cunard

Tom O'Brien

Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth cruise ships

Lighting Designer

2019

Cleft

Rough Magic

Lynne Parker

Glór, Ennis; Galway Internatinal Arts Festival; Kilkenny Arts Festival

Lighting Designer

2019

Bullet Tongue Reloaded

The Big House

Maggie Norris

The Big House, London

Set Designer

2019

Bread Not Profits

Guna Nua

Terry O’Donovan

Cleeve's Condensed Milk Factory, Limerick

Lighting Designer

2019

Apologia

The English Theatre Frankfurt

Audrey Sheffield

The English Theatre Frankfurt

Lighting Designer

2019

Vespertilio

Fight and Hope

Lucy Jane Atkinson

The Cavern, at The Vaults, London; Smock Alley, Boys School, Dublin

Lighting Designer

2019

They Called Her Vivaldi (Revival)

Theatre Lovett

Muireann Ahern and Carl Kennedy

North America Tour

Lighting and Set 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

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

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 Re-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

Muireann Ahern and Carl Kennedy

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

Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe Festival

Maeve Stone

The 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 Lady Killers

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

Muireann Ahern and Carl Kennedy

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

Production Designer (Dublin Theatre Unit)

2016

A Feast of Bones

Theatre Lovett

Muireann Ahern

UK and Irish Tour

Lighting Re-designer

2016

Fabric

Robin Rayner Productions Ltd. in association with TREMers

Tom O'Brien

English National Tour and Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe

Lighting Designer

2016

Inhabitance

Glass Doll Productions

Ronan Phelan

Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin

Lighting and Set 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

They Called Her Vivaldi

Theatre Lovett

Muireann Ahern and Carl Kennedy

Irish National Tour

Lighting and Set Designer

2016

East of Berlin (Revival)

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 Ní Riordáin

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 True Story of Hansel and Gretel

Theatre Lovett

Muireann Ahern and Louis Lovett

Smock Alley, Boys School, Dublin

Lighting and Set 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

East of Berlin

The Lir Academy

Lee Wilson

The Lir, Studio 2

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

Lighting and Set Designer

2015

On The Wire

Wildebeest Theatre Company

Terry O'Donovan

The Sailor's Home, Limerick

Lighting Designer

2014

FUSED (Revival)

Dan Bergin

Dan Bergin

Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin

Lighting and Set Designer

2014

Mavericks

Mavericks Theatre Co.

Nick Lee

Theatre Upstairs

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

Guthanna Binne Síoraí

Tristan Rosenstock

Samuel Beckett Theatre, 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

Flesh and Blood Women

Green Shoot Productions

Noreen Kershaw

Grand Opera House, Baby Grand Studio, Belfast and National Tour

Lighting Designer

2014

LAMBO (Revival)

Underscore_ ​Productions

Ronan Phelan

Irish National Tour

Lighting and Set 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

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

Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin

Lighting and Set Designer

2013

Digging For Fire

Rough Magic

Matt Torney

Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Assistant Lighting Designer

2013

Broken Promised 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, Dublin

Assistant Lighting Designer

2012

BROADENING

Glass Doll Productions

Ronan Phelan

The Lir, Studio 2

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

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

MaDam

Eleonore Nicholas

Eleonore Nicholas

The Pearse Centre, Dublin

Lighting Designer

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

Bedbound (Revival)

Pillow Talk

Rosemary McKenna

The New Theatre, Dublin

Lighting and Set Designer

2011

The Living End

Pillow Talk

Rosemary McKenna

The New Theatre, Dublin

Lighting and Set Designer

2011

Lovers

Room To Move

David Ferguson

The New Theatre, Dublin

Lighting Designer

2011

I’m a Homebird (Its Very Hard)

Talking Shop Ensemble and Shaun Dunne

Oonagh Murphy

Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin

Lighting Designer

2011

Bedbound

Pillow Talk

Rosemary McKenna

Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin

Lighting and Set Designer

2010

Reunion

The New Theatre

Ronan Wilmot

The New Theatre, Dublin and Irish 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

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 - Design Credits

Production

Company

Director

Venue

Credit

Year

Dance - Design Credits

Production

Company

Choreographer

Venue

Credit

Year

What Is Not Ours To Carry

Ali Clarke

Ali Clarke

Mermaid Arts Centre and Samuel Beckett Theatre

Lighting Designer

2023

Frantic Ignition 2019

Frantic Assembley

Neil Bettles, Sean Hollands and Gavin Maxwell

Theatre Peckham

Lighting Designer

2019

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

A Christmas Tale and The Nutcracker Suite

Irish National Youth Ballet

Stephen Brennan

Pavilion Theatre, Dublin

Lighting and Set Designer

2012

The Nutcracker

Ballet Ireland

Morgann Runacre-Temple

Gaeity Theatre, Dublin and UK and Irish Tour

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

Romeo & Juliet

Ballet Ireland

Morgann Runacre-Temple

Irish National Tour 2012

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

Emma Martin

Emma Martin

Samuel Beckett Theatre

Lighting and Set Designer

2009