Zia Bergin-Holly
Photo by Tamara Him
Zia is an award winning Lighting and Set Designer. She works internationally designing for theatre, site-specific theatre, dance, opera and live music events.
She is a B.A. (Hons) graduate of Drama and Theatre Studies, Trinity College Dublin. She went on to participate on the Rough Magic SEEDS Programme 2012-2013 and was the Resident Associate Designer with PAN PAN Theatre 2016-2018.
Her work has included designs for performances as part of the Dublin and Belfast Theatre Festivals, The Dublin Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Vaults London, IPAY, On The Edge, The Next Wave (Brooklyn), Galway International Arts, Kilkenny Arts, Baboró and 10 Days In Dublin festivals, as well as assistant design credits for performances on the West End.
Awards & Nominations
Best OffFest Nomination - 2023
Off West End Awards / OFFIES
Fringe First Award Winner - 2023
The Scotsman
Best Production Nomination - 2022
The Irish Times Theatre Awards
Best Design Nomination - 2022
Dublin Fringe Festival
IDEA Production Finalist - 2022
Off West End Awards / OFFIES
Audience Choice Award Winner - 2020
The Irish Times Theatre Awards
Outstanding Production Nomination - 2019
Theatre & Technology Awards
Show of the Week Winner - 2019
Vault Festival
Best Theatre Show Winner - 2018
Broadway World
Fringe Groundbreaker Award Winner - 2018
The Wee Review
Best Lighting Design Winner - 2017
The Irish Times Theatre Awards
Best Lighting Design Nomination - 2016
Off West End Awards / OFFIES
Judges Special Award Nomination - 2016
The Irish Times Theatre Awards
Fringe First Award Winner - 2016
The Scotsman
Best Production Nomination - 2015
The Irish Times Theatre Awards
Best Design Nomination - 2012
Dublin Absolut Fringe Festival
Best Lighting Design Winner - 2009
Irish Student Drama Association
Disco Pigs
Design Credits
Theatre - Design Credits
Production
Company
Director
Venue
Credit
Year
Freefalling (Revival)
Rough Magic and Lime Tree / Belltable in association with Fidget Feet Aerial Dance
Lynne Parker
Draíocht, Dublin (Dublin Theatre Festival)
Lighting Designer
2023
Absolute Hell
The Lir Academy
Davey Kelleher
The Lir, Studio 1
Lighting Designer
2023
Heaven (Revival)
Fishamble Theatre Company
Jim Culleton
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe
Set Designer and Lighting Re-designer
2023
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic
Theatre Lovett
Louis Lovett
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge and Irish National Tour
Lighting Designer
2023
Heaven (Revival)
Fishamble Theatre Company
Jim Culleton
59E59 Theaters, New York
Set Designer
2023
Solar Bones (Revival)
Rough Magic
Lynne Parker
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2022
In These Four Walls
ARTS ED
Ameera Conrad
Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre, London
Lighting Designer
2020
Teenage Dick
Donmar Warehouse
Michael Longhurst
Donmar Warehouse, London
Associate Lighting Designer
2019
Cleft
Rough Magic
Lynne Parker
Glór, Ennis; Galway Internatinal Arts Festival; Kilkenny Arts Festival
Lighting Designer
2019
Bullet Tongue Reloaded
The Big House
Maggie Norris
The Big House, London
Set Designer
2019
They Called Her Vivaldi (Revival)
Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern and Carl Kennedy
North America Tour
Lighting and Set Designer
2019
User Not Found (Revival)
Dante or Die
Daphna Attias
UK Tour; Next Wave Festival, New York; Print Screen Festival, Holon
Lighting and Set Designer
2019
Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui
Jennifer Tang
Jennifer Tang
Camden People's Theatre, London
Lighting Designer
2019
PRAVDA
Arts Ed
Jennifer Tang
Arts Ed
Lighting Designer
2018
Bullet Tongue
The Big House
Maggie Norris
The Big House, London
Set Designer
2018
A Feast of Bones (Revival)
Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Lighting Re-designer
2018
A Further Shore
Poetry Ireland
Lynne Parker
Milton Court Concert Hall, London and The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Lighting Designer
2018
They Called Her Vivaldi (Revival)
Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern and Carl Kennedy
The Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin and Irish National Tour
Lighting and Set Designer
2017
You Forgot The Mince
Imagine If Theatre
Stephen Whitson
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe
Lighting Designer
2017
Annie
Cork Opera House
Ronan Phelan
Cork Opera House
Lighting Designer
2017
The Lady Killers
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Jimmy Fay
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Lighting Designer
2017
The Train
Rough Magic
Lynne Parker
The Abbey Theatre, Dublin and The MAC, Belfast
Associate Lighting and Set Designer
2017
The Importance of Being Earnest
Bruiser Theatre
Lisa May
The MAC, Belfast
Lighting Designer
2017
Before Monsters Were Made (Revival)
15th Oak
Ronan Phelan and Ben Kidd
Irish National Tour
Lighting and Set Designer
2017
They Called Her Vivaldi (Revival)
Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern and Carl Kennedy
Capitol Theatre, Overture Arts Centre, Madison Wisconsin
Lighting and Set Designer
2017
The Nest
The Lyric Theatre Belfast and The Young Vic London
Ian Rickson
The Lyric Theatre Belfast and The Young Vic London
Lighting Designer
2016
A Feast of Bones
Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern
UK and Irish Tour
Lighting Re-designer
2016
Inhabitance
Glass Doll Productions
Ronan Phelan
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2016
Northern Star
Rough Magic
Lynne Parker
The Project Arts Centre, Dublin; The Tron, Glasgow; The Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
Lighting and Set Designer
2016
East of Berlin (Revival)
Brinkmanship Theatre
Lee Wilson
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2016
The Dead
Dublin Theatre Festival
Conor McPherson
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Stage Designer
2016
Enjoy
Rough Magic
Zoe Ní Riordáin
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2015
Anna Bella Eema
Rough Magic
Shane Ward
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2015
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Theatre Lovett
Muireann Ahern and Louis Lovett
Smock Alley, Boys School, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2015
The Night Alive
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast and Dublin Theatre Festival
Conor McPherson
The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin and The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Lighting Designer
2015
East of Berlin
The Lir Academy
Lee Wilson
The Lir, Studio 2
Lighting Designer
2015
Saints and Sinners
Mouth on Fire
Cathal Quinn
The New Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2015
Teanga an Ghrá
Guthanna Binne Síoraí
Tristan Rosenstock
The New Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2015
Before Monsters Were Made
15th Oak
Ben Kidd
Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2015
Human Child (Revival)
Collapsing Horse
Dan Colley
Irish National Tour
Lighting and Set Designer
2015
Northern Star
The Lir Academy
Lynne Parker
The Lir, Studio 1
Lighting and Set Designer
2015
FUSED (Revival)
Dan Bergin
Dan Bergin
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
Mavericks
Mavericks Theatre Co.
Nick Lee
Theatre Upstairs
Lighting Designer
2014
The Unquiet Grave of Garcia Lorca
Theatre Sotto Voce
Hamish McDougal
The Drayton Arms, London
Lighting Designer
2014
Reckoners
15th Oak
Dan Herd
The Lir, Studio 1, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
Everlasting Voices
Guthanna Binne Síoraí
Tristan Rosenstock
Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
Human Child (Revival)
Collapsing Horse
Dan Colley
Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
The Last 5 Years
Trees Rd Productions
Christopher Collins
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
The Separation
Pixilated
Simon Evans
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2014
Flesh and Blood Women
Green Shoot Productions
Noreen Kershaw
Grand Opera House, Baby Grand Studio, Belfast and National Tour
Lighting Designer
2014
LAMBO (Revival)
Underscore_ Productions
Ronan Phelan
Irish National Tour
Lighting and Set Designer
2014
I Can’t Sing!
Stage Entertainment/ Syco Entertainment
Sean Foley
London Palladium, West End
Assistant Lighting Designer
2014
LAMBO
Underscore_ Productions
Ronan Phelan
The New Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
FUSED
Dan Bergin
Dan Bergin
The Lir, Studio 1, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
Human Child
Collapsing Horse
Dan Colley
Smock Alley, Boys School, Dublin and Mermaid Arts Centre, Co Wicklow
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
BROADENING (Revival)
Glass Doll Productions
Ronan Phelan
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
Digging For Fire
Rough Magic
Matt Torney
Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Assistant Lighting Designer
2013
Broken Promised Land
Stones Throw
Aoife Spillaine Hinks
Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
Clear_The_Air
Underscore_ Productions
Ronan Phelan
Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2013
Everyone is King Lear in His Own Home
Pan Pan
Gavin Quinn
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Assistant Lighting Designer
2012
Anna In Between
Pillow Talk
Rosemary McKenna
The Players Theatre, TCD, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2012
Love in the Title
Room To Move
David Ferguson
The New Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2012
Durang Durang
Brazen Tales
Ronan Phelan
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2012
Purple
Edwina Casey
Edwina Casey
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2012
The Lulu House
Siren Productions
Selina Cartmell
The James Joyce House, Dublin
Assistant Lighting Designer and Technical Manager
2011
MaDam
Eleonore Nicholas
Eleonore Nicholas
The Pearse Centre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2011
Does Anybody Ever
The Children
Sophie Meehan
The Players Theatre, TCD, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2011
Do You Read Me?
Talking Shop Ensemble and Shaun Dunne
Oonagh Murphy
Smock Alley, Boys School, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2011
Bedbound (Revival)
Pillow Talk
Rosemary McKenna
The New Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2011
The Living End
Pillow Talk
Rosemary McKenna
The New Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2011
Lovers
Room To Move
David Ferguson
The New Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2011
I’m a Homebird (Its Very Hard)
Talking Shop Ensemble and Shaun Dunne
Oonagh Murphy
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2011
Bedbound
Pillow Talk
Rosemary McKenna
Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2010
Reunion
The New Theatre
Ronan Wilmot
The New Theatre, Dublin and Irish National Tour
Lighting Designer
2010
Paperboy
Engine Thirteen
Tara Robinson
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2010
Oedipus The King
Classic Stage Ireland
Andy Hinds
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2010
Slat
Featherhead Productions
Trevor Knight
Smock Alley, Empty Space, Dublin
Assistant Lighting Designer
2009
Disco Pigs
DU Players
Tara Robinson
The Players Theatre, TCD, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2009
Opera - Design Credits
Production
Company
Director
Venue
Credit
Year
The Perfect American
English National Opera / Teatro Real Madrid
Phelim McDermitt
London Coliseum
Assistant Lighting Designer
2013
Dance - Design Credits
Production
Company
Choreographer
Venue
Credit
Year
Frantic Ignition 2019
Frantic Assembley
Neil Bettles, Sean Hollands and Gavin Maxwell
Theatre Peckham
Lighting Designer
2019
The Bystander
Junk Ensemble
Jessica and Megan Kennedy
Axis Theatre, and Project Arts Centre, Dublin and The Mermaid Theatre, Wicklow
Lighting Designer
2018
Romeo & Juliet (Revival)
Ballet Ireland
Morgann Runacre-Temple
Irish National Tour 2017
Lighting Designer
2017
Images Ballet Company 2017 Tour
Images Ballet Company (London Studio Centre)
Jennifer Jackson, Matthew Hart, Morgann Runacre-Temple, Liz Aggiss
UK Tour
Lighting Designer
2017
Unspoken
Rough Magic
Aisling McCormick
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2015
A Christmas Tale and The Nutcracker Suite
Irish National Youth Ballet
Stephen Brennan
Pavilion Theatre, Dublin
Lighting and Set Designer
2012
The Nutcracker
Ballet Ireland
Morgann Runacre-Temple
Gaeity Theatre, Dublin and UK and Irish Tour
Lighting Designer
2012
The Little Mermaid, String Serenade and Kiss me Kate
Irish National Youth Ballet
Stephen Brennan, Kilian O'Callaghan, Sarah Thornton
O'Reilly Theatre and Civic Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2012
Romeo & Juliet
Ballet Ireland
Morgann Runacre-Temple
Irish National Tour 2012
Lighting Designer
2012
The Snow Queen and The Nutcracker Suite
Irish National Youth Ballet
Stephen Brennan
O'Reilly Theatre and Pavilion Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2011
The Nutcracker
Irish National Youth Ballet
Katherine Lewis
O'Reilly Theatre and Pavilion Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2010
The Work The Work
Fitzgerald and Stapleton
Emma Fitzgerald and Áine Stapleton
Project Arts Centre, Cube Theatre, Dublin
Lighting Designer
2010
Lulu
Emma Martin
Emma Martin
Samuel Beckett Theatre
Lighting and Set Designer
2009