Lighting Design credits include: Two Gentleman of Verona (RSC); Lear (Singapore International Arts Festival); Doubt, Snake In The Grass (Dundee Rep); Mrs President (Charing Cross Theatre); Snow White (MacRobert Arts Centre); James V (National Tour); Animal, Rags, My Dad's Gap Year, Hatched and Dispatched (Park Theatre); To Kill A Mockingbird (Lyric Hammersmith); Macbeth (Garrick Theatre); BK Shivani (Wembley Arena); Sweeney Todd (Deutches Theatre Munich); Hound of the Baskervilles, Our Man in Havana, Our Friends The Enemy, If We Got Some More Cocaine, Ticker (UK Tour); The Secret Life of Humans, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Handbagged and Spamalot (English Theatre Frankfurt); What I Go To School For (Theatre Royal Brighton); Rumplestiltskin (Theatre Royal Bath then MAC Belfast); Pure Imagination, Marry Me A Little, Andrew Lippa in Concert, Scenes From a Marriage (The Other Palace); Man Up, Ignition (Frantic Assembly); and the Whatsonstage Awards (Prince Of Wales Theatre).  

Associate Lighting Design credits include: Shakespeare In Love, Henry V (Noel Coward Theatre); Le Corsaire (English National Ballet); Skylight (Wyndhams Theatre then Golden Theatre, NY and 2015 Tony Awards Best Lighting Design) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and 2014 Olivier Awards Best Lighting Design).

Derek is also an Associate of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.