About

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. Seeking new perspectives and innovative outlooks, he is a dynamic and collaborative artist with a painterly approach that values detail, nuance and complexity. Spencer especially values new Australian works, queer stories and compelling storytelling.

Recent credits as lighting designer include: SUGAR by Ro Bright (Assembly Checkpoint), Thirty-Six by Jo Clifford (fortyfivedownstairs), a scary thing happened by the CAMPFIRE (Gasworks Arts Park), Given Volume by Matthias Schack-Arnott, Romeo & Julie (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), The Last Train to Madeline (Meat Market Stables), FAMOUS (National Institute of Circus Arts), Frame Narrative (Old Fitz Theatre), The Lonesome West (Old Fitz Theatre), The Crocodile (fortyfivedownstairs), Lehenda: Ukrainian Soul, Australian Soil (The National Theatre Melbourne), Curveball (La Mama Courthouse), Pull the Pin (Blue Room Theatre), and From All Who Came Before (La Mama HQ).

He was also nominated for a 2025 Green Room Award in Best Lighting Design for The Last Train to Madeline.

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