Lighting Designer
Paul Jackson
Biography
Paul Jackson is a multi-award-winning designer who has worked with Australia’s leading arts organisations and internationally. His work has featured in festivals and programmes in the United States, Asia, Europe and the United Kingdom.
Paul’s recent work includes: Carmen (Opera Australia), Happy End, Echo and Narcissus / Cassandra (Victorian Opera), Lorelei (Victorian Opera, Opera Queensland); The Sound Inside, Cyrano, Home, I’m Darling (Melbourne Theatre Company); Death Of A Salesman (Sydney Theatre Company); Stop Girl (Belvoir); The Return (Malthouse), Cloudstreet (Malthouse, Black Swan State Theatre Company).
Paul was Artistic Associate at Malthouse Theatre from 2007–2013. In 2017, he received an Australia Council of the Arts fellowship. Paul has won a Helpmann Award, two Sydney Theatre Awards, seven Green Room Awards, a Critics’ Award for Theatre in Scotland, and four Australian Production Design Guild Awards. He has also received a further four Helpmann Award nominations and thirty-two Green Room Award nominations. He has taught design at the University of Melbourne, RMIT University and the Victorian College of the Arts.
Past Performances
Performance Lorelei
The Lorelei in German lore is a siren of distracting beauty said to sit atop a particular rock at the edge of the River Rhine, enchanting sailors with her alluring…
14 - 23 July 2022Performance La Traviata
Love, intensity, heartache Violetta is the ultimate party girl, a courtesan who can charm her way into the life of anyone she chooses. Then she meets Alfredo and the rules…