Jake designs extensively both in the UK and Worldwide. His work has been seen with major opera companies and festivals including The Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Oper Leipzig, Garsington Opera and St. Galler Festspiele, as well as many of the UK’s top music conservatoires. Internationally, he has worked throughout Europe, North America, and Asia in a variety of venues from traditional proscenium arch theatres to unique site-specific spaces. In 2009 he was made an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (HonARAM) and in 2023 he was nominated for a Canadian Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding lighting design.
Recent credits include lighting Il Viaggio a remis for Oper Leipzig, Susanna for Opera North, a co-production of L’Olimpiade between the Royal Opera House, Irish National Opera and Fribourg Nouvel Opera, The Magic Flute and Don Pasquale for Welsh National Opera, Peter Pan for Haydn Fondazione, The Cunning Little Vixen for Silent Opera in association with English National Opera, (in London, Helsinki, Trento, Hong Kong and Beijing) and Bluebeard’s Castle for Theatre of Sound (in London, Atlanta, Beijing, Toronto, Edmonton and across New Zealand) which won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award.
Jake has also lit multiple productions for Buxton International Opera Festival, Longborough Festival Opera and Opera Holland Park.