Ciarán Cunningham trained at East 15 Acting School.

Lighting Design includes: An Unfinished Man (Yard theatre); The Shits (Leeds Playhouse & Bush Theatre); Freedom Project (Leeds Playhouse); Me For The World (Young Vic); Amsterdam (Orange Tree Theatre and UK tour); Blood Knot (Orange Tree Theatre); One Night In Miami (Nottingham playhouse Bristol old vic & Home Manchester); Suckerpunch Boom Suite (Barbican / NitroBEAT); Eden (Hampstead Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Stratford Theatre Royal East); Shebeen (Nottingham Playhouse and Stratford Theatre Royal East); Last Days of Iscariot (Vanbrugh Theatre); Dublin Carol (Sherman Theatre); Into the Woods; Brink (Royal Exchange Theatre); Wish List (Royal Exchange Theatre and Royal Court Theatre); Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Young Vic/UK Tour); Sound of Yellow (Young Vic); Sense of Sounds: Migration Music (Liverpool Everyman Theatre); Scrappers (Liverpool Playhouse); In His Hands; Re:definition (Hackney Empire); Blackout (The Dukes Theatre); The Mountaintop (Welsh National Tour); Death and the Maiden (The Other Room ); A Dream Cross the Ocean (Fairfield Hall Ashcroft Theatre); When Chaplin Met Gandhi (Kingsley Hall); Normal (Rift); Chris Dugdale: 2 Face Deception (Leicester Square Theatre); Letter to Larry (Jermyn Street Theatre).