About

Spencer (he/him) is a lighting designer with a keen eye for detail and nuance, working across all forms of live performance including theatre, cabaret, concerts and events. Spencer’s deepest passions for design are lighting the world of sound through a collaborative process, whether that being music, composition, a soundscape or musical theatre.

Graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Bachelor of Performing Arts - Production & Design, Specialising in Lighting, 2018), he hopes to bring a new and innovative outlook into the industry as a collaborative and dynamic artist with a painterly quality through new Australian works, queer stories and important voices.

Spencer’s recent credits as lighting designer include Frame Narrative (Old Fitz Theatre), The Lonesome West (Old Fitz Theatre), WHAT OF IT (Explosives Factory), 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).

Spencer has also been associate lighting designer for Rachel Burke on Far Away (fortyfivedownstairs) and Wittenoom (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), as well as with Katie Sfetkidis on Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (fortyfivedownstairs). He has also seconded with Trent Suidgeest on Muriel’s Wedding the Musical for Global Creatures at Her Majesty’s Theatre.