About
Daniel Denton is a London based Visual Artist and Video Designer
His background is in Illustration and Experimental film and has gone on to create live visuals across, theatre, opera, dance, fashion, broadcast and installation. His video design work has gained him multiple award nominations including; The What’s On Stage Awards (Best Video Design – Misty), Off Westend Awards (Best Video design – “Misty” and “James Graham’s: Sketching”), Theatre and technology Awards (Creative Innovation in Video – “Ready or Not”). He has also been featured as part of the 2019 – Prague Quadrennial and at the V&A’s “Staging Places” exhibition for his work on “Misty”
Contact
Daniel is represented by Dan Usztan of United Agents for Video Design:
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Production Credit
Video Design:
Reverberation – Bristol Old Vic – Dir. Giacomo Sain – 2024
Joyride – Malmö Opera/ China Theatre Stockholm – Dir. Guy Unsworth – 2024/25
Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Ockhams Razor – UK tour – 2023
Anthropologie – Hampstead Theatre – Dir. Anna Ledwich – 2023
Falkland Sound – The Royal Shakespeare Company – Dir. Aaron Parsons – 2023
Disruption – The Park Theatre – Dir Hersh Ellis – 2023
Brief Encounter – New Wolsey (UK Tour) Dir. Douglas Rintoul – 2023
Misty – The Shed (NY) – Dir Omar Elrain – 2023
Run, Rebel – Pilot Theatre (UK tour) – Dir Tessa Walker – 2023
In The Net – Jermyn Street Theatre – Dir. Vicky Moran – 2023
Omega: 60 Years of James Bond – Secret Cinema – 2022
Kinky Boots – New Woolsey Theatre & Queens Theater Hornchurch – Dir. Tim Jackson – 2022
Happy Meal – UK Tour – Dir. Jamie Fletcher – 2022
NSFW – RADA – Dir. Joan Oliver – 2022
Hedwig and The Angry Inch – Leeds Playhouse – Dir. Jamie Fletcher – 2022
The Bone Sparrow – Pilot Theatre/York Theatre Royal – Dir. Esther Richardson – 2022
Redemption – Big House Theatre Company – Dir. Maggie Norris – 2021
iGirl – Abbey Theatre – Dir. Caitríona McLaughlin – 2021
The Wedding Singer – Royal Academy of Music – Dir Bruce Guthrie – 2021
For The Grace of You Go I – Theatr Clwyd – Dir. James Grieve – 2021
Misfits – Hornchurch Queens Theatre – Dir. Douglas Rintoul – 2020
Secret Cinema: Stranger Things – The Drive In Experince – Dir. Matthew Bennet – 2020
Secret Cinema: Stranger Things – Secret Cinema – Dir. Matthew Bennet – 2019
The Thing – Les Enfants Terribles – Dir. Oliver Lansley – 2019
Kes: Reimagined- BBC and The Space – Dir. Johnathan Watkins – 2019
Whitewash – Soho Theatre – Dir. – 2019
Us Against Whatever – Middle Child – Dir. Paul Smith – 2019
Flashdance: The Musical – Korean Tour – Dir. Hannah Chiswick -2019
Hansel and Gretel – Rose Theatre – Dir. Rosie Jones – 2018
The Little Prince – Protein Dance – Dir. Luca Silvestrini 2018-19
Sundowing – Kali Theatre Company – Dir. Helena Bell 2018
James Graham’s Sketching – Wilton’s Music Hall – Dir. Thomas Hescott 2018
On Raftery’s Hill – Abbey Theatre – Dir Caitríona McLaughlin 2018
Misty – Bush Theatre and Trafalgar Studios – Dir Omar Elrain 2018
Alice In Winterland – Rose Theatre – Dir Ciaran McConville 2017
Flashdance: The Musical – UK tour – Dir Hannah Chiswick 2017-18
To Love Somebody Melancholy – National Tour – 2017
Ready Or Not -The Arcola Theatre and national tour – Dir Helena Bell 2017,
Peter Pan – Exeter Northcott Theatre – Dir Paul Jepson 2016
Bumblescratch – Adelphi Theatre – Dir Stewart Nichols 2016
Biedermann and the Arsonists – Sadler’s Wells – Dir Max Hoen 2015
Theatre/Music/Performance/Installation:
Star Princess – Holiday Installations (2024) – Princess Cruises – Art Director and Senior Video Designer
Star Princess Permanent video installations (2023/24) – Princess Cruises – Art Director and Senior Motion Designer
Ibrahim Governance Forum (2022) – Barefoot Live – Motion Designer
Strictly: The Professionals – UK Tour (2022) – Associate Video Designer
Les Miserables: In Concert – Sondhiem Theatre (2020) – Associate Video Designer
City of Angels – Garrwick Theatre (2020) – Animator
Faustus That Damned Woman: Hammersmith Lyric (2020) – Animator
Sleepless In Seattle: The musical (2019-20) Illustrator
Peter Gynt – National Theatre (2019) Editor/Animator
Secret Cinema: Casino Royal – (2019) Lead Animator
Center Stage – P&O – (2019) Associate Video Designer
The Monstrous Child – Linbury Theatre at Royal Opera House (2019) – Lead Animator/Associate Video Designer
The Cost of Living – Hampstead Theatre (2019) – Associate Video Designer/Programmer
A Monster Calls – The Old Vic and Bristol Old Vic (2018) – Programmer
Secret Cinema – Romeo and Juliet (2018) – Editor/Animator
Anual Fundraiser – The Royal Opera House (2018) – Animator
Tonight The Eighties – JACC – Kuwait (2018) – Lead Animator
Secret Cinema – Blade Runner (2018) – Lead Animator
Prism – Hampstead Theatre (2017) – Animator
The Railway Children – Exeter Northcott Theatre (2017) – Associate Video Designer/Lead Animator
40 Years On – Chichester Festival Theatre (2017) – Associate Video Designer/Animator
Don Juan In Soho (2017) Animator
Carmen (2017) – Illustrator/Animator
The Owl and The Pussycat (2017) – Animator
Toyota CHR (2017) – Animator
Secret Cinema (2017) Moulin Rouge – Animator
Don Juan in Soho (2017) Wyndams Theatre – Animator
Tamberlaine (2017) Arcola Theatre – Animator
Big The Musical (2016) Plymouth Theatre Royal – Lead Animator
Madam Butterfly (2016) Glyndebourne – Editor
Exposure (2016) St James Theatre – Editor
Andrea Chénier (2016) – Opera North – Illustrator
Pila Pina (2016) – MAK Iceland – Illustrator
Only the Brave (2016) Welsh Millennium Centre – Lead Animator
Mickey and The Magicians (2016) Disney Land Paris – Lead Animator
The Government Inspector (2016) – Birmingham Mac and Tour – Animator
Pure Imagination (2015) – Animator
Blur at Hyde Park (2015) – Animator
Amazon Imaging Studio Launch (2015) – Amazon Imaging Studio – Animator
Notorious (2015) Göteborg Opera – Animato/Editor
5th and 57th (2015) Old Selfridges Hotel – Lead Animator Crossing (2015) Citi Shubert Theatre USA – Illustrator/Animator
Love’s Sacrifice (2015) The Royal Shakespeare Company – Illustrator/Animator
Love, Loss and Chianti (2015) Chichester Festival Theatre – Illustrator/Animator
Elf: The Musical (2014) Theatre Royal Plymouth – Animator/Illustrator
Khamsah – National Youth Theatre/ King Abdelaziz Centre for World Culture – Saudi Arabia (2014) Animator/Visual designer
Home – Brolly Productions (2014) – Research and Development/Video Editor
Broadcast Storybox – The Science Museum, London (2014) Illustrator/Animator
Amadeus – Chichester Festival Theatre (2014) – Illustrator
London Rocks – Busch Gardens USA (2014) – Animator Compositor
Bombay Bicycle Club World Tour (2014) – Animator
Moon Tiger – Theatre Royal Bath (2014) – Animator/Photo editor
Neige – Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (2013) – Animator/Editor
American Psycho – Almeida Theatre – Illustrator/Animator (2013)
The Feeling Of Going – Skanes Dansteater – Illustrator/Animator (2013)
American Lulu – The Opera Group – Illustrator/Animator (2013) Mesmer
Manchester Sounds: The Massacre – Library Theatre Company – Animator (2013)
Calvert Journal Launch – Calver22 – London – Editor – Mesmer Studios (2013)
Aristophanes Now! – Athens, Istanbul, London, – Mesmer Studios (2013)
Faust – Mariinsky Theatre – Saint Petersburg (2013) – Animation – Mesmer Studios
The Flying Dutchman – Festival Theatre – Edinburgh (2013) – Animation – Mesmer Studios
Broadcast and Web:
“Spirit of Talk Talk – Animator – Directed by James Marsh and Lydia Hibbert (2012)
Shifting Peaks and Nasty Rips Vol. 2, Album Sampler – Animator/Director (2013)
Odessa, “Get Right” – Animator/Director – (2013)
World Cup Carnival – Web promo – The Vaults (2014)
“What makes me me? – and other interesting questions” – 2013 – Illustration and animation – Mosiac Films
“I May Be Some Time” – Short Film by Ana Stefaniak – 2014 – Animator/Compositor
“Raveyard” – Web promo – The Vaults (2014-15)
“Wahaca’s Festival of the Dead” – Promo -The Vaults – 2016
“Beauty and The Feast” – Promo – The Vaults – 2017
“BBC WJEC Religion” – Mosiac Motion – 2017
“Sounds and Scorcery: The Music of Fantasia” – The Vaults – 2018
DATA Stories – Mo Ibrahim Foundation – Barefoot Live – 2021-22 – Motion Designer
Dermot Kennedy – “Dreamer” – Projection and Motion Designer – 2022
Screening and Exhibitions:
Pop Gallery – Chatham -Video Installation/Screening of Transdigital Vol.2 – 10/10/14
Strange Cargo – Screening of Scanography#2 as part of Cheriton Light Festival – 23/02/13
The Rochester Room – with 51:Zero – Exhibition of video pieces and ‘Scanner Camera’ as well as artist talk/ live demonstration of own experimental digital film techniques.
Jotta: Refractions – Kopperburg ün-establishment – exhibition of Scanography#3 video installation (20/10/12 – 25/10/12)
Stepping Stone Studios – Maidstone Film Festival – Screening of Scanography#2 – 14-20/11/12
51: Zero Voyager – Screenings in Maidstone 19 – 20/10/12 in Medway 16-17-18-19 including talks and live demonstrations of work
Malcfest – Film bus – 08/09/2012 – Screening Film/ Short talk about film Augmented Land (Scanography#1) Fine Art Media degree show 14/06/2012 – 18/06/2012 Showcasing video installation – Scanography#2
Modern Art Oxford – An unfinished world 15/02/2012 Film Augmented Land (Scanography#1) requested for screening as part of the “An Unfinished World” series curated by Connor Kelly
Filmography:
Transdigital Vol. 3 – 2015
Methods and Structures – 2014
Only Geometry Here – Video installation for McLaren Wall to Wall – Montreal – 2014
Transdigital Vol. 2 – 2014
Transdigital Vol. 1 – 2013 Scanography#4.1 – 2013 Homage to 77 States of Decay – 2013
Skin//Sky (Scanography#3) – 2012
Scanography#2 – 2012 Augmented Land (Scanography#1) – 2012
Inner Space – 2011
Journey Anonymous – 2011
Sea Whisperers – Video Installation for Turner Contemporary – 2011