Spender Herd

Spencer Herd (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. 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.

Malthouse Theatre credits include Homo Pentecostus as Associate Lighting Designer. 

Other theatre credits, as lighting designer include a scary thing happened by the CAMPFIRE (Gasworks Arts Park), Given Volume (David Li Sound Gallery), Romeo & Julie (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), The Last Train to Madeline (Meat Market Stables), FAMOUS (National Institute of Circus Arts),  Frame Narrative, The Lonesome West (Old Fitz Theatre); WHAT OF IT (Explosives Factory); The Crocodile (fortyfivedownstairs); Lehenda, Ukranian Soul, Australian Soil (National Theatre Melbourne) Curveball, From All Who Came Before (La Mama) and Pull the Pin (Blue Room Theatre). Spencer has also been associate lighting designer for Rachel Burke on Rhinoceros and Far Away (fortyfivedownstairs) and Wittenoom (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre), as well as with Katie Sfetkidis on Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (fortyfivedownstairs), and Phoebe Pilcher on A Model Murder (Sydney Festival) and La Cage aux Folles (Playhouse ACM). He has also seconded with Trent Suidgeest on Muriel’s Wedding the Musical (Global Creatures).