Lighting Design credits include: James V: Katherine (National Tour), Animal, Rags, My Dad's Gap Year, Hatched and Dispatched (Park Theatre), How 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), Fatal Attraction (Theatre Royal Haymarket), What I Go To School For (Theatre Royal Brighton); Rumplestiltskin (Theatre Royal Bath then MAC Belfast), Sunset Boulevard (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), Pure Imagination, Marry Me A Little, Andrew Lippa in Concert, Scenes From a Marriage (St James Theatre), Man Up, Ignition (Frantic Assembly), Henry V (Cambridge Arts Theatre), The Wedding Singer, How To Succeed in Business (Lowry Theatre); Dessert, Promises Promises, Allegro, The Grand Hotel, Uppercut, Followers (Southwark Playhouse) and the WhatsonstageAwards (Prince Of Wales Theatre).  

Associate Lighting Design credits include: Shakespeare In Love, Henry V (Noel Coward Theatre), Le Corsaire (English National Ballet), The El Train (Hoxton Hall), Skylight (Wyndhams Theatre then Golden Theatre, NY and Winner for Best Lighting Design at the 2015 Tony Awards) Die Zauberflote (Metropolitan Opera), Versailles (Donmar Warehouse), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Winner for Best Lighting Design at the 2014 Olivier Awards), Dragon and The Fifth Step (National Theatre of Scotland).  

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