David Finn began his career as lighting designer for the master puppeteer Burr Tillstrom and Kukla, Fran & Ollie. He was resident Lighting Designer for Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project for eight years. His designs for dance can be seen with The Royal Ballet (including a new Swan Lake in 2018), National Ballet of Canada, San Francisco Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Australian Ballet, Bayerisches StaatsBallett, Sasha Waltz & Dancers, Twyla Tharp & Dancers and Paul Taylor Dance Company, amongst others. For Birmingham Royal Ballet he has also lit David Bintley’s Cinderella and James Kudelka’s Le Baiser de la fée. He has collaborated with John Macfarlane on many productions, including Falstaff (Florence), Tosca, The Flying Dutchman (Metropolitan Opera), Rusalka, Macbeth (Chicago), Otello, Falstaff (Brussels), Boris Godunov (Amsterdam), The Pirates of Penzance (Berlin), Swan Lake, Sweet Violets and Frankenstein (Royal Ballet), Hummingbird (San Francisco) and Swan Lake (Munich). He lit the stage scenes in Scorcese’s film The Age of Innocence and directed a documentary, The Green Monster for PBS. David was the Lighting Designer for Cirque du Soleil’s R.U.N. and Michael Jackson ONE in Las Vegas and ZED in Tokyo.