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.
