Announcing the Final Nominees for the 2013 Knight of Illumination Awards

	The KOI 2013 shortlist of nominees have been chosen from a record number of submissions this year. Pictured above: Bryan Leitch received the Lifetime Achievement Award at KIO 2012.

The anticipated shortlists of lighting designers nominated for a Knight of Illumination Award have been announced.

Established to celebrate outstanding achievements in British lighting design in the sectors of TV, Theatre and Concert Touring and Events, the awards are voted on by panels of professional reviewers who work in each of the specific sectors.

"It's been the most popular Knight of Illumination (KOI) awards to date with an unprecedented number of submissions across the categories theatre, television, and concert touring and events," says KOI coordinator Durham Marenghi. "This year, KOI organizers have been inundated with submissions of stunning lighting design work, all of which deserve the highest recognition for their creativity."

In alphabetical order, the following are the shortlists for each category of each sector:

Concert touring and events:
Arena: Baz Halpin - Pink; Jamie Thompson - The Script; Ed Warren - Mumford and Sons
Stage: Bruno Poet - Sigur Ros; Chris Swain - Two Door Cinema Club; Mark Wood - Lana del Rey
Live Event: Vince Foster - Queen'sCoronation Gala; James Waudby - ShangriLa; Patrick Woodroffe - London Olympics Ceremonies
Video Electronic Content: Es Devlin and Luke Halls - Pet Shop Boys; Sarah Hopper and Damian Hale - Sigur Ros; Ed Warren - Mumford and Sons

Television:
Light Entertainment: Dave Davey - Britain's Got Talent Final; Gurdip Mahal - The Voice Final; Oli Richards - The McFly Show
Small Studio: Colin Case - Howard Goodall's History of Music; Duncan Elsam - Smells Like Friday Night; Dave Gibson - Olympic Studio
Drama: Ashley Rowe BSC - Dancing on the Edge; John Sorapure - Little Cracker; Chris Watts - Father Brown
Events: Nick Collier - Bollywood Carmen Live; Bernie Davis - Funeral of Baroness Thatcher; Guy Hoare and Mike Le Fevre - Metamorphosis
Graphic Display: Dave Davey - Dancing on Ice; Gurdip Mahal - The Voice; Patrick Woodroffe - Olympic Opening Ceremony

Theatre:
Dance: Damien Cooper and Matt Cox - The Oracle - Queen Elizabeth Hall; Fabiana Piccioli - iTMOi - Sadler's Wells; Jean-Philippe Roy - Sideways Rain - Sadler's Wells
Opera: Jon Clark - Written on Skin - Royal Opera; Jean Kalman - Death in Venice - English National Opera; Mark Jonathan - Lulu - Welsh National Opera
Play: Charles Balfour - The River - Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court; Jon Clark - The Effect - Cottesloe, National Theatre; Mike Gunning - The Drowned Man - Punchdrunk at Temple Studios
Musicals: Paule Constable - Barnum - Chichester Festival Theatre Tent; Natasha Katz - Once - Phoenix Theatre; David Plater - This Is My Family - Studio, Sheffield Crucible
Projection Design: Lysander Ashton - Feast - Young Vic; Ravi Deepres - Raven Girl - Royal Ballet; Michel van de Aa - Sunken Garden - English National Opera at The Barbican

Topping off the evening's celebrations with be the presentation of the Enrico Caironi Award for Lifetime Recognition. Previous winners include: Coral Cooper - 2010, Richard Pilbrow - 2011 and Bryan Leitch - 2012.

The Awards, which are organized by the ALD, STLD, Clay Paky, and Ambersphere Solutions, are generously sponsored by Chroma-Q, Hawthorn, MA Lighting, Osram, Robert Juliat, and XL Video and kindly supported by ABTT, ET Now, Lighting&Sound America, Lighting&Sound International, PLASA, The Theatres Trust, and TPI magazine.

Winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 6 at ExCel London's Platinum Suite and will follow on from the first day of the newly located PLASA Show. The ceremony is open to invited guests only.