Phil was born in Dorchester and brought up in the local town of Blandford Forum. At the age of sixteen he studied at The Jellicoe Theatre, part of the Bournemouth and Poole College of Further Education, where he was awarded a BETEC National Diploma in Performing Arts (Production) with three distinctions. At seventeen he left The Jellicoe and went on to join the full time team at Lighthouse (Poole's Centre for the Arts), the largest arts centre's outside of London, as Head of Electrics.

Away from Lighthouse, Phil spent his time as a freelance lighting and video designer working closely with local companies in the South producing theatre, dance and concerts.
In October 2008, he launched his first company meadia continuing in the strong foundations of his freelance career.

Credits

Lighting design for theatre and dance include:
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Dance Fever (Lighthouse), Space50 (UK and Germany tour), The Show must go On (Lighthouse), Magic of the Musicals (Poole), Romeo and Juliet (Poole), Key for Two (Dorset), Popcorn (Poole), The Eightfoot Leap (Poole), Edith Paif (Dorset) as well as resident designer for local companies Activate Performing Arts and Dance-for-all.

Concert and live event design:
Lakeside Magic 2009 (Dorchester), The UK international Boogie festival (2005-10), Endorset festival 2005-06, Bournemouth Live! festival (2003-04), The Great Dorset Steam Fair Music Festival (Tarrant Hinton), Woman wants tall Man (tour), Music in the Meadow (Blandford) and Brighton Rocks.

Video design:
Blockbusters 2011 (Stagewise Theatre)

Small scale tours:
The Little Red Hen, The Enormous Turnip (The Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company) and Space50 (Niki McCretton Presents).

Lighting for film:
Morris: a life with bells on 2006 (Twist films).

Production electrician include:
The Chemical Brothers (2011 World Tour), The Return of Michael Flatley as Lord of the Dance (2010 European Tour), Stevie Wonder (2010 European Tour), Diversity - Bringing a Toy Story to Life (2010 UK Tour), Lakeside Magic concerts (2003-07) and On the Green Rock (Saftesbury Community Play).

Web design:
Bradley Engineering (www.bradeng.com), Dance-for-all (www.dancefourall.co.uk), Marketing, Print and Promotion (www.mppco.co.uk)

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