Adam Carrée was born in Great-Britain in 1974. He studied lighting design at Rose Bruford College, graduating in 1997. Adam then went on to work with Central St Martins based at their Cochrane theatre, working annually on the Peter Williams Design for Dance seasons, collaborating with design students from Central St Martins, dancers and choreographers from Royal Academy of Dance, Central School of Ballet, London Studio Centre and Rambert School. Since then he has gone on to work in theatre, dance and opera.

Adam has worked on a number of projects with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. He collaborated with Antony Gormley and Cherkaoui on Sutra and Babel (words), other collaborations include Faun and Play.

Lighting designs for other companies include: Epson Downs and Hobson’s choice for Drama Centre London, A Taste of Mangoes for Tara Arts, Flavio for Early Opera Company, RSVP with Philine Janssens for The Place Prize, Rites/Before Night Falls, Shattered, Second Grace and Gameshow for Company Chameleon, The Cat Who Ran for Unicorn Theatre, For The Best with Mark Storor and the Unicorn Theatre.