About

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

Spencer’s recent credits as lighting designer include 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).

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.