Niklas Pajanti

Niklas Pajanti is an award-winning lighting designer whose practice ranges across contemporary art forms and performance styles.

Malthouse Theatre: The Birds, One Night the Moon, Kitten (with Jenny Kemp) and Not Like Beckett. Other Theatre: The Removalists, A Streetcar Named Desire, Berlin, Cosi, A View From the Bridge, Astroman, A Doll’s House Part 2, Rupert, The Cherry Orchard, The Beast and Queen Lear (Melbourne Theatre Company); Cosi, When The Rain Stops Falling (with Brink Productions), Australia Day (with Melbourne Theatre Company), Spring Awakening, and I Want To Dance Better At Parties (with Chunky Move) (Sydney Theatre Company); My Urrwai, Angels In America, The Wild Duck, Baby Teeth, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, The Promise, Baghdad Wedding,The Pillowman and Yibiyung (Belvoir); Much Ado About Nothing and The School For Wives (Bell Shakespeare); Death of a Salesman (GWB Entertainment); Endgame (with Melbourne Festival and tour to Enniskillen International Beckett Festival); The Song of the Bleeding Throat, King John (with Adelaide Festival), Othello (The Eleventh Hour).

Niklas has won 3 Green Room Awards and received 11 nominations across all categories, including Best Lighting Design for A View from the Bridge for Melbourne Theatre Company.  He has also been nominated for Helpmann Awards, Sydney Theatre Awards and APDG Awards for his lighting design.