Patrick Woodroffe (lighting designer)

Patrick Woodroffe, OBE, RDI (born 11 June 1954 in Oxford) is a lighting designer working in the worlds of music, dance, fashion, art and architecture.

Patrick Woodroffe grew up in Singapore and Germany and was educated at Marlborough College and Copford Glebe School.
He is married to Lucy Woodroffe with whom he has two children. He also has a daughter from a previous relationship. His brother, Simon Woodroffe, is the founder of Yo! Sushi, Yotel and YO! Company

Woodroffe began his career in lighting in the mid Seventies and over forty years has lit and directed productions for many artists including ABBA, Bob Dylan, The Police, Take That, Peter Gabriel, Simon and Garfunkel, Genesis, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, The Eagles, Lady Gaga, Donna Summer and Elton John.

Woodroffe has worked with The Rolling Stones since 1982 as the lighting designer and creative director for their live shows. He lit Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light, the record of the Stones' live performances at the Beacon Theatre.

In 2009 Woodroffe lit the "This Is It" show for Michael Jackson and subsequently worked on the feature film that remains the sole record of that production.

In opera, ballet and dance he has lit many productions, including Vienna State Opera and Finnish National Opera where the lighting took the place of the scenery. He lit Derek Deane’s large scale production of Swan Lake for the English National Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall.

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