Richard Godin trained at Central School of Speech and Drama and his recent lighting design credits include Michael Clark’s The Barrowlands Project (closing of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad at The Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow); DV8 Physical Theatre’s Can We Talk About This? co-designed with Beky Stoddart (Slovenia and Korea); The Generating Company’s No Sweat (Sarlet, France and touring); A Christmas Carol, The Diary of a Nobody and Travels With My Aunt (Royal Theatre, Northampton); Top Girls, Assumption, A Slight Ache, The Lover and Under Milk Wood (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); Aladdin, Twelfth Night, From a Jack to a King, Dick Barton, The Mummy’s Tomb, A Slice of Saturday Night and Gaslight (The Queens Theatre, Hornchurch); Speakout (English Touring Opera); Henry V (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Diva in Me (Brighton Pavilion, Greenwich Theatre and Devonshire Park); The Other Road (National Theatre and Watch This Space); The Servant to two Masters (Komedia Theatre); Uncle Montagues Stories From the Shadows (Old Vic Tunnels); Cloudcuckcooland (UK tour); Snow White and Jack and The Beanstalk (Derby Arena); A Respectable Wedding (Edinburgh Festival); Sunday in the Park With Geroge, Into the woods and The Company (Embassy Theatre); Best Man Speech (UK tour); Frankenstein and The Tempest (UK tour); Thirteen, The Colour of Justice, Road, On the Razzle, The Love for the Nightingale, The Laramie Project, Loveplay, Wild Party, Chorus Line, Petie Rouge, Sherlock Holmes, Second from Last in the Sack Race, The Lights, Gormenghast and Far from the Madding Crowd (Arts Educational Schools London); Stormforce (Mermaid Theatre); OneFourSeven (Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Old Vic Theatre and Oval House Theatre); The Beautiful Game (UK tour); On The Air (Circus Space); Mylo (TDK Cross Central Festival).
Godin has toured extensively internationally with DV8 Physical Theatre and Complicité. Complicité’s The Master and Margarita toured to the Barbican Centre then Germany, Austria and Spain. DV8‘s Can We Talk About This? premiered at Sydney Opera House then toured to Hong Kong, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Leeds, Warwick, Cologne, Athens, Budapest, Ljubljana and the National Theatre. Complicité’s A Disappearing Number toured to the USA, India and West End Theatre including a live worldwide broadcast as part of NT Live. DV8’s To Be Straight With You toured to Europe, the USA and Canada. UK tourings include Orfeo, Ersimena, Dido and Aeneas, Jephte, Tolomeo, Tosca, Jenufa and The Little Magic Flute for English Touring Opera.
Godin has been Head of Lighting, Sound and Video for The National Youth Theatre and has also designed, tutored and mentored at The Central School of Speech and Drama, Guildhall and Arts Educational Schools.