Martin Kempton - lighting designer Welcome to my website.  I am a television lighting director with a decade's previous experience as a BBC staffer but I've been freelance now for eight years. This website is aimed at producers, directors and production managers seeking a suitable LD for their next show.  If you fall into this category then you are more than welcome!  If not, you will find it very dull. Although I work mostly in television I am keen to expand my theatre experience too, so would welcome offers of work (especially dramas) in venues large and small. Click on the buttons on the left for more information.  The 'CV' page gives a summary of my television career and a selection of about fifty programmes I have lit in the past few years.  Have a look at the 'stills of TV work' page to see what some of those shows looked like.  For a list of everything I have worked on recently - go to 'all TV work.'   Sorry if it's all a bit 'me! me! me!'  I'm not usually like this, (at least, I hope not), but it's hard to know quite how to present myself in the best possible light without sounding like a complete pain in the ... you get the picture.             Information for students... I am occasionally contacted by people seeking info about what the job of a lighting director involves or how they might best go about entering the industry. Unfortunately, there are no longer clear-cut routes to becoming an LD but I have written some pages that might help a little.  Click on the relevant buttons on the left to find out more.                       Meanwhile, for those who are looking for my history of London's television studios - it can be found at... www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk     Freelance TV work has included: Al Murray's Happy Hour An Audience/Another Audience With Al Murray An Audience With Harry Hill The Catherine Tate Show Coupling Distraction The Door French and Saunders Grownups Harry Hill's TV Burp I'm Alan Partridge Lee Nelson's Well Good Show Little Britain Miranda Not Going Out The Omid Djalili Show The Peter Serafinowicz Show Russell Howard's Good News Shooting Stars Sky Arts Playhouse Live TV Heaven, Telly Hell Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps The Vicar of Dibley Who Dares Wins Please click on 'CV' button on the left for more information or 'all tv work' button for full list of programmes.