Ciarán Bagnall is a lighting designer and the Creative Director for Prime Cut Productions, Belfast. He trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and was made a fellow of the College in 2017.
His work was used to represent Irish Theatre Design at the Prague Quadrennial International Exhibition (PQ) in 2019 and 2023.
Theatre credits include The Dead (Museum of Literature, Dublin); The Ferryman (Gaiety Theatre); Two Pints (Belgrade Theatre); Salome and Tosca (INO, Bord Gáis Theatre, Dublin); Sive, The Lonesome West, The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Cripple of Inishmaan (The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin); Romeo and Juliet (Regent’s Park, London); Dido and Queen of Carthage (RSC); Hamlet (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Macbeth (Young Vic, London); Pentecost (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Perseverance Drive (Bush Theatre, London); Much Ado about Nothing (RSC, Stratford Upon Avon and London West End), HAMMAM and The Lost O’Casey (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Staging the Treaty (National Concert Hall, Dublin); Wakefires (Cork Midsummer Festival); The Secret Space (Project Arts Centre, Dublin); Scrapefoot (The Ark, Dublin); The Anvil (Manchester International Festival); Sunder (Dublin Theatre Festival); These Rooms (Shoreditch Town Hall, London/Dublin Theatre Festival) and The Saviour (The Irish Rep, New York/Dublin Theatre Festival).