Jason Ahn is a lighting designer and neuroaesthetic researcher based in the UK. He began his career at Woodroffe Bassett Design as a placement and worked in productions in London’s West End and major UK venues. He is the first to theorise neuroaesthetics in lighting design and popular arts. His work is inspired by research in neuroaesthetics, especially how the brain responds to visual experience. This research is explored in his book Neuroaesthetic Stage Lighting Design: What Makes Good Light, published by Routledge in 2025.

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Training: MA Light in Performance (Distinction) at Rose Bruford College and Theatre at Seoul Institute of the Arts.

 

Theatre credits include: A Microscopic Odyssey (Golden Goose Theatre), 9 to 5 (POSK Theatre); Evita (POSK Theatre); A Little Night Music (Bridewell Theatre); Belle Lurette (Bloomsbury Theatre); Acis and Galatea (The Old Market). As Associate Lighting Designer: Stereophonic (The Duke of York's Theatre), The Good Person of Szechwan (Lyric Hammersmith).