LIGHTING DESIGN CREDITS
2024
YOUR NAME MEANS DREAM (Lighting Design)
Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre
Director: Kat Henry
GILGAMESH (Lighting Design)
Carriageworks, Sydney Chamber Opera/ Opera Australia
Director: Kip Williams
PLAGIARY (Lighting Design)
Fairfax Theatre, ACM. NOW OR NEVER FESTIVAL
The Studio, SOH
Concept & Creator: Alisdair Macindoe
THE CHILDREN’S BACH (Lighting Design)
Theatreworks, Lyric Opera
Director: Katy Maudlin
SLAP.BANG.KISS (Lighting Design)
Regional Tour, Melbourne Theatre Company (Return Season)
Director: Katy Maudlin
MACBETH: AN UNDOING (Lighting Design)
The Merlyn, Malthouse Theatre Company
Director: Matthew Lutton
THE ALMIGHTY SOMETIMES (Lighting Design)
The Sumner Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Hannah Goodwin
THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL (Lighting Direction: Special Events)
The Melbourne Town Hall
MEET ME AT DAWN (Lighting Design)
The Fairfax Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Katy Maudlin
MONUMENT (Lighting Design)
Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre (Return Season)
Director: Ella Caldwell
2023
THE SEAGULL (Lighting Design)
The Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Imara Savage
HOUR OF THE WOLF (Lighting Design)
The Merlyn, Malthouse Theatre
Director: Matthew Lutton
MONUMENT (Lighting Design)
Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre
Director: Ella Caldwell
MAKE YOUR LIFE COUNT (Lighting Design)
Geelong Performing Arts Centre
Choreographer: Sarah Aiken
BLOOM (Lighting Design)
The Playhouse ACM, Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Dean Bryant
DARK MOFO
Max Richter’s Voices & Four Seasons, Federation Concert Hall
Blue Rose Ball & Blue Velvet Lounge Site Lighting Design
THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL (Lighting Direction: Special Events)
The Forum Theatre, The Melbourne Town Hall
BERHART / HAMLET (Lighting Design)
The Sumner Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Anne Louise-Sarks
BLESSED UNION (Lighting Design)
Upstairs Theatre, Belvoir Street Theatre
Director: Hannah Goodwin
2022
A SIMPLE ACT OF KINDNESS (Lighting Design)
Red Stitch Actors Theatre
Director: Peter Houghton
GIRLS & BOYS (Lighting Design)
The Fairfax Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Kate Champion
K-BOX (Lighting Design)
The Beckett, Malthouse Theatre Company
Director: Bridget Balodis
CIRCADIA (Lighting Design)
Matthias Schack-Arnott & Play On, Abbortsford Convent
MYSELF IN THAT MOMENT (Lighting Design)
Chamber Made, Substation
ANGELS LAMENT (Lighting Design)
Federation Concert Hall, DARK MOFO
RAINBOW DREAM : MOON RAINBOW (Exhibition Lighting Design)
Websters Carpark, DARK MOFO
WEBSTERS (Site Lighting Design)
Websters Carpark, DARK MOFO
HERCULES (Lighting Design)
Arts House
Director: Daniel Schlusser
GOLDEN SQUARE (Site & Exhibition Lighting Design)
Golden Square Carpark, RISING Festival
THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL (Lighting Direction: Special Events)
The Forum Theatre, The Melbourne Town Hall
SLAP.BANG.KISS (Lighting Design)
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Katie Maudlin
ADMISSIONS (Lighting Design)
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Gary Abrahams
MAKE YOUR LIFE COUNT (Lighting Design)
Arts House
Choreographer: Sarah Aiken
2021
JULIUS CAESAR (Lighting Design)
Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Kip Williams
HYDRA (Lighting Design)
Double Water Sign & Darebin Speakeasy
Director: Bridget Balodis
SYSTEM_ ERROR (Lighting Design)
Alisdair Macindoe & Chamber Made, Arts House
TOWARDS A GREAT SILENCE (Lighting Design)
City Hall, DARK MOFO
SOLSTICE EVE (Lighting Design)
Federation Concert Hall, DARK MOFO
CIRCUIT DES YEUX (Lighting Design)
Federation Concert Hall, DARK MOFO
GAVIN BRYERS & THE TSO (Lighting Design)
Federation Concert Hall, DARK MOFO
POPE ALICE CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (Lighting Design)
X-Cathedra, DARK MOFO
X-CATHEDRA (Lighting Event & Site Design)
DARK MOFO
GOLDEN SQUARE (Lighting Event & Site Design)
RISING Festival
THE DISPUTE (Lighting Design)
RISING Festival & Arts House
Director: Jackson Castiglione
BECAUSE THE NIGHT (Lighting Design)
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Matthew Lutton
Nominated Best Lighting Design (Companies)
2020
MY BRILLIANT CAREER (Lighting Design)
Belvoir Theatre Company
Director: Kate Champion
LEVIATHAN (Lighting Design)
The Regal Theatre, Perth
Director: Yaron Lifschitz
TORCH THE PLACE (Lighting Design)
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Dean Bryant
EVERY BRILLIANT THING (Lighting Design)
Belvoir Street Theatre
Director: Kate Champion
2019
THE NICO PROJECT (Lighting Associate)
Melbourne International Arts Festival & Manchester International Festival
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Director: Sarah Frankcom
DIASPORA (Lighting Design)
The Substation
ChamberMade & Robin Fox
WHAT AM I SUPPOSE TO DO? (Lighting Design)
Art Centre Takeover
Created by Deep Soulful Sweats (Bec Jensen & Sarah Aiken)
BLACKIE BLACKIE BROWN (Lighting Realiser)
Malthouse Theatre Company
Lighting Designer: Verity Hampson
Director: Declan Greene
AUSTRALIAN REALNESS (Lighting Design)
Malthouse Theatre Company
Director: Janice Muhler
DARK MOFO (Lighting Design)
Hadley’s Artist Bar
Riceboy Sleeps (Jónsi, Alex Somers and The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra)
THE VIOLENT OUTBURST THAT DREW ME TO YOU (Lighting Design)
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Prue Clark
EQUINOX (Lighting Design)
Castlemaine Festival
Created by Deep Soulful Sweats (Bec Jensen & Sarah Aiken)
EVERY BRILLIANT THING (Lighting Design)
Belvoir Street Theatre
Director: Kate Champion
2018
MORAL PANIC (Lighting Design)
Darebin SpeakEasy
Director: Bridget Balodis
Nominated for 2018 Green Room Award (Lighting Design)
NEXT MOVE 11 (Lighting Design)
Chunky Move Studios
Choreographers: Lauren Langlois and Joel Bray
TRUSTEES (Lighting Design)
The Beckett Theatre, Malthouse Theatre
Direction: Belarus Free Theatre
CONTEST (Lighting Design)
Darebin SpeakEasy
Director: Prue Clarke
WINNER for 2018 Green Room Award (Lighting Design)
DESERT 6.29 (Lighting Design)
Wuzhen Festival, China
Director: Bridget Balodis
JURASSICA (Lighting Design)
Red Stitch and Critical Stages Tour (VIC, NSW and QLD)
Director: Bridget Balodis
THEY DIVIDED THE SKY (Lighting Design)
25 A, Belvoir Downstairs Theatre
Directed by Daniel Schlusser
FUTURE CITY INFLATABLE (Lighting Design)
Dancehouse / Abbortsford Convent/ Next Wave Festival
Created and Performed by Ellen Davies & Alice Heyward
RESTORE (Lighting/ Set Design)
Dancehouse (Australia)
Created and Performed by Renae Schadler
LOVELY MESS (Lighting Design)
Performance Space, Footscray Community Arts Centre & FOLA
Created by Riot Stage
LET’S GO UP HERE (Lighting Design)
Studio 2, Arts House & FOLA
Created by Slown, Smallen and Son
HAND TO GOD (Lighting Design)
The Alex Theatre
Director: Gary Abrahams
WE MAY HAVE TO CHOOSE (Set and Lighting Design)
Britanico Cultural San de Lurigancho, Surco and Miraflores), Lima, Peru
Writer & Performer: Emma Hall, Director: Prue Clark
2017
GATE TO PARADISE (Lighting Design)
The Beckett, Malthouse Theatre (for One Tree Theatre)
Director: Nancy Black
DESERT 6.29 (Lighting Design)
Red Stitch Theatre
Director: Bridget Balodis
NICHE (Lighting Design)
Northcote Town Hall
Director: Nic Dorward
Created and Produced by Elbow Room
LOOKING GLASS (Lighting Design)
45 Downstairs
Director: Susie Dee
Winner for 2016 Green Room Award (Lighting Design)
MINNIE & LIRAZ (Tour Lighting Associate)
Geelong Performing Arts Centre
Lighting Design: Matt Scott
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
SALT (Lighting Design)
La Mama Courthouse
She Said Theatre
ANGELS IN AMERICA (Lighting Placement)
The Lyttleton Theatre, The National Theatre London
Lighting Design: Paule Constable
Director: Marianne Elliott
SEVENTEEN (Lighting Placement)
The Lyric Hammersmith and Belvoir Theatre
Lighting Design: Paule Constable
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
THE WINTER’S TALE (Lighting Placement)
London Coliseum, The English National Opera
Lighting Design: Jon Clark
Director: Rory Kinnear
IF IT’S ALL MY VEINS (Original Lighting Design)
Dancehouse, Dance Massive Festival 2017
Choreographer: Martin Hansen
WE MAY HAVE TO CHOOSE (Set and Lighting Design)
Darwin Festival
Auckland Fringe
NZ Fringe Wellington
Writer & Performer: Emma Hall, Director: Prue Clark
2016
ANTI HAMLET (Lighting Design)
Theatreworks Selected Season
Director: Mark Wilson
Nominated for 2016 Green Room Award (Production)
TURBINE (Lighting Design)
The Beckett Theatre, Malthouse Theatre
Regional Tour to Geelong Courthouse Theatre and Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre.
Director: Janice Muller
RESTORE (Set and Lighting Design)
North Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Creator: Renae Schadler
LOVE and INFORMATION (Lighting Design)
NIDA Open Productions, Theatreworks
Director: Kat Henry
CONVICTION (Lighting Design)
Northcote Town Hall, Speak Easy Program
Director: Declan Greene
CAMEL (Lighting Design)
Arts House, NEXT Wave Festival
Choreographer: Geoffrey Watson
GROUND CONTROL (Set and Lighting Design)
Northcote Town Hall, NEXT Wave Festival
Director: Bridget Balodis
QUT The Loft, Brisbane Festival
Tour Director: Mark Pritchard
Nominated for 2016 Green Room Award (Lighting)
REASONS TO STAY INSIDE (Lighting Design)
Perth Fringe Festival
Director: Prue Clark
WE MAY HAVE TO CHOOSE (Set & Lighting Design)
Perth Fringe Festival
Melbourne Encore Season (La Mama)
Brisbane Festival
Writer & Performer: Emma Hall
Director: Prue Clark
KIER CHOROEOGRPAHIC AWARDS (Lighting Design)
Semi-Finals Dancehouse; Finals Carriageworks
Sarah Aiken: Tools for Personal Expansion, Choreographer: Sarah Aiken (FINALIST)
If It’s All in my Veins, Choreographer: Martin Hansen (FINALIST)
RUMPUS (Lighting Design)
Footscray Community Arts Centre, Festival of Live Art
Creator: Ahmarnya Price
TRIUMPH (Lighting Design)
45 Downstairs
Director: Mark Pritchard
2015
THE LISTIES RUIN XMAS (Lighting Design)
The Beckett, Malthouse Theatre
The Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Creators: The Listies
THE ONE (Lighting Design)
45 Downstairs, Poppyseed Festival
Director: Tanya Dickson
THE JUDGEMENT (Lighting Design)
La Mama Courthouse
Director: Samara Hersch
JURASSICA (Lighting Design)
Red Stitch Theatre
Director: Bridget Balodis
REASONS TO STAY INSIDE (Lighting Design)
North Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Director: Prue Clark
SETS (Lighting Design)
Dancehouse, Housemate Season
Choreographer: Sarah Aiken
DREAM HOME (Lighting Design)
Northcote Town Hall, Speak Easy Program
Director: Luke Kerridge
MKA DOUBLE FEATURE (Lighting Design)
Melbourne Theatre Company, Neon Season
Directors: Kat Henry and John Kachoyan
10,000 SMALL DEATHS (Lighting Design)
Dancehouse, Dance Massive Festival
Choreographer: Paula Lay
EXCHANGE 2015 (Scenography Collaborator)
Arts House, Fragment 31 & Taipei Arts, Dance Massive
Participating Artists: Lee Tsung-hsuan, Melanie Lane, Wu Yu-Hsien, Peter Fraser, Tien Hsiao-Tzu, Natalie Abbott
WE MAY HAVE TO CHOOSE (Set and Lighting Design)
Adelaide Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe
Melbourne Fringe
Writer & Performer: Emma Hall, Director: Prue Clark
2014
META (Lighting Design)
Malthouse Theatre, Helium Season
Director: Samara Hersch
4383 DAYS OF THE CHILD (Lighting Design)
VCA PHD Performance
ANGRY SEXX (Lighting Design)
Upstairs at Errols, Melbourne Fringe Hub
Director: Bridget Balodis
WOMEN OF TROY (Lighting Design)
NIDA Open Productions, Theatreworks
Director: Netta Yashchin
HELLO THERE, WE’VE BEEN WAITING (Lighting Design)
Studio 1, ACMI, NEXT Wave Festival
Director: Samara Hersch
DROPPED (Lighting Design)
La Mama Courthouse
Director: Prue Clark
2013
ARDEN v ARDEN (Lighting Design)
Northcote Town Hall, The Hayloft Project
Director: Benedict Hardie
ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE (Lighting Design)
NIDA Open Productions, Gasworks
Director: Kat Henry
DROPPED (Lighting Design)
North Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Director: Prue Clark
Nominated for 2013 Green Room Award (Lighting)
FOXFINDER (Lighting Design)
Red Stitch Actors Theatre
Director: Kat Henry
Nominated for 2013 Green Room Award (Lighting)
WHAT DO I WANT? (Lighting Design)
Seaworks, The Women’s Circus
Director: Spenser Inwood
TEN WORLDS (Co- Lighting Design with Paula Van Beek)
Dancehouse
Choreographer: Helen Smith
GROUP SHOW (Lighting Designer)
Northcote Town Hall, MKA Theatre
Directors: Luke Kerridge and Prue Clark
2012
NOA (Lighting Design)
La Mama Theatre
Director: Samara Hersch
100% MELBOURNE (Design Assistant to Jen Hector)
Melbourne Town Hall, Rimini Protocol
HA LF (Co-Lighting Design with Paula Van Beek)
Victorian College of the Arts
Choreographer: Mariaa Randall
ONE ACT PLAYS: Orlando and The Bloody Chamber (Lighting Designer)
Victorian College of the Arts
Directors: Luke Kerridge and Prue Clarke
GRANTS and AWARDS
GREEN ROOM AWARDS
WINNER Best Visual Design: Dance for MAKE YOUR LIFE COUNT (2022)
Nominated for Because the Night (2021)
WINNER Best Visual Design: Contemporary and Experimental Performance for DIASPORA (2019)
WINNER for Contest (2018)
Nominated for Moral Panic (2018)
WINNER for Looking Glass (2017)
Nominated for Ground Control (Next Wave Festival, 2016)
WINNER for body of work (2015)
Nominated for Dropped (Melbourne Fringe, 2013)
Nominated for Foxfinder (Red Stitch, 2013)
IAN POTTER CULTURAL TRUST TRAVEL GRANT (2017)
Support for travel to London, United Kingdom.
Lighting Secondments:
Angels in American, The National Theatre. Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
The Winter’s Tale, English National Opera. Lighting Designer: Jon Clark
Seventeen, Lyric Hammersmith. Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
AUSTRALIA COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT GRANT (2017)
Support for travel to undertake placements with international lighting designers Paule Constable and Jon Clark in London.
MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY’S WOMEN in THEATRE PROGRAM (2016)
Lighting Participant
Mentorship with Paul Jackson
MALTHOUSE BESEN FAMILY ARTIST PROGRAM (2014)
Mentorship with Paul Jackson
JUMP MENTORSHIP (2014)
Mentorship with The Rabble (with collaborator Lucy Thornett)
ARTSTART (2013)
Placement with Dewey Dell for Marzo (Venice Biennale)
Placement with Hartley TA Kemp (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
VICTORIAN COLLEGE of the ARTS (2012)
The Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship (for excellence in theatre)
EDUCATION
RMIT (2013, 2015)
Lighting Engineering and Design
VICTORIAN COLLEGE of the ARTS (2012)
Post Graduate Diploma in Performance Creation (Lighting Design)
Recipient of The Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY of PERFORMING ARTS (2004 – 2006)
Advanced Diploma of Live Production, Theatre and Events (Lighting)