Niklas Pajanti

Niklas Pajanti

Lighting Designer

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.

Shows worked on

Current as of March 2025.

Niklas Pajanti has worked with...

Paula Arundell

Paula Arundell

Worked with on The Birds

Erica Browne

Erica Browne

Worked with on The Birds

Kat Chan

Kat Chan

Worked with on The Birds

Gideon Cozens

Gideon Cozens

Worked with on The Birds

Louise Fox

Louise Fox

Worked with on The Birds

J. David Franzke

J. David Franzke

Worked with on The Birds

Patrick Jones

Worked with on The Birds

Matthew Lutton

Matthew Lutton

Worked with on The Birds

Daphne du Maurier

Worked with on The Birds

Marni Mount

Marni Mount

Worked with on The Birds

Rosemary Osmond

Rosemary Osmond

Worked with on The Birds

Rhys Velasquez

Rhys Velasquez

Worked with on The Birds

David Wotherspoon

Worked with on The Birds

Sidney Younger

Sidney Younger

Worked with on The Birds