Paul Pyant

Paul Pyant (born 22 July 1953) is a British lighting designer, whose designs have been featured in the West End, on Broadway and in opera houses around the world. He has been nominated for several Olivier Awards and Tony Awards, winning the Olivier in 2014 for his design for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Pyant's parents are Leonard Vincent Pyant, a business executive, and Jean Phoebe née Frampton, a medical secretary. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1973 and is an associate of the Academy.

His credits in Britain include numerous West End productions and many productions with Royal National Theatre (RNT) in London. He was nominated for Olivier Awards for his designs for The Wind in the Willows (RNT 1991),Hamlet (2001),A Streetcar Named Desire (2003),All's Well that Ends Well (2005) and the musicals The Lord of the Rings (2008) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2014). He won the Olivier for the last of these. The RNT production of Othello played an engagement in Brooklyn, New York in 1998. Ben Brantley, in The New York Times, wrote that Pyant's lighting for this production was "exquisite". Pyant's lighting design for the 2010 West End production of Waiting for Godot was called "lyrical".

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