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Spencer Herd

Lighting Designer

Spencer (he/him) is a multidisciplinary lighting designer and artist working across all forms of live performance including theatre, contemporary circus, cabaret, concerts and events.

Recent credits as lighting designer include: the 2025 Green Room Award nominated in Best Lighting Design for The Last Train to Madeline by Callum Mackay, SUGAR by Ro Bright, Thirty-Six by Jo Clifford, a scary thing happened by the CAMPFIRE by Split Focus, Given Volume by Matthias Schack-Arnott, Romeo & Julie by Gary Owen, and FAMOUS by the National Institute of Circus Arts.

Spencer has been associate lighting designer for Paul Jackson on Truth (Malthouse Theatre); with Rachel Burke on Rhinoceros (Spinning Plates Co), & Far Away (Patalog Theatre), Wittenoom & Iphigenia in Splott (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); Katie Sfetkidis on Monolith (Joel Bray Dance), Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (Little Ones Theatre) and Homopentacostus (Malthouse Theatre); and Phoebe Pilcher on A Model Murder (Sydney Festival) and La Cage aux Folles (Playhouse ACM). He seconded with Trent Suidgeest on Muriel’s Wedding the Musical for Global Creatures at Her Majesty’s Theatre Melbourne.

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