Paul Jackson
Lighting Designer
AUS
Paul Jackson (he/him) is an award-winning lighting designer who works across Australia and internationally.
Malthouse Theatre: TROY, TRUTH, THIS IS LIVING, NOSFERATU, MONSTERS (Set & Lighting), ANNA K, THE RETURN, CLOUDSTREET, BLASTED, MELANCHOLIA, BLISS, THE TESTAMENT OF MARY, BLACK RIDER, AWAY, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, MEOW MEOW’S THE LITTLE MERMAID, SOLARIS (with Lyric Hammersmith London / Royal Lyceum Edinburgh).
Other Theatre: Recent credits includes OTTO, STOP GIRL, ESCAPED ALONE and GALILEO (Belvoir); ESCAPED ALONE AND WHAT IF IF ONLY, SUNDAY and CYRANO (Melbourne Theatre Company) and SUNDAY, OIL, DO NOT GO GENTLE, LIFESPAN OF A FACT, DEATH OF A SALESMAN and NO PAY? NO WAY! (Sydney Theatre Company).
Awards & Nominations: Paul has won a Helpmann Award, two Sydney Theatre Awards, seven Green Room Awards, a Critics’ Award for Theatre in Scotland, and five Australian Production Design Guild Awards. In addition, he has also received a further four Helpmann Award nominations, thirty-two Green Room Award nominations, five APDG nominations and four Sydney Theatre Award nominations. He is a Churchill Fellow and an Australia Council Fellow.
Paul is accredited with the Australian Production Design Guild.
Shows worked on
Truth
Lighting Designer 2025
This is Living
Lighting Design 2023
Nosferatu
Lighting Designer 2023
Monsters
Set & Lighting Designer 2022
Anna K
Lighting Designer 2022
The Return
Lighting Designer 2022
Apocalypse Meow: Crisis is Born
Lighting Designer 2019
Solaris
Lighting Designer 2019
Cloudstreet (2019)
Lighting Designer 2019
Common Ground
Lighting Designer 2019
Blasted
Lighting Designer 2018
Melancholia
Lighting Designer 2018
Bliss
Lighting Designer 2018
Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)
Lighting Designer 2018
The Testament of Mary
Set Designer, Lighting Designer 2017
The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets
Lighting Designer 2017
The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man
Lighting Designer 2017
Meow Meow's Little Mermaid (2017)
Lighting Designer 2017
Away (2017)
Lighting Designer 2017
Anti-Gravity
Lighting Designer, Designer 2017
Picnic at Hanging Rock (2017)
Lighting Designer 2017
Blaque Showgirls
Lighting Designer 2016
Edward II
Lighting Designer 2016
The Shadow King (2016)
Set Designer, Lighting Designer 2016
Picnic At Hanging Rock (2016)
Lighting Designer 2016
Meow Meow's Little Mermaid (2016)
Lighting Designer 2016
Antigone (2015)
Lighting Designer 2015
I Am a Miracle
Set Designer, Lighting Designer 2015
Love and Information
Lighting Designer 2015
Timeshare
Lighting Designer 2015
Hello, Goodbye and Happy Birthday (2014)
Lighting Designer, Dramaturg 2014
Night on Bald Mountain
Lighting Designer 2014
The Government Inspector
Lighting Designer 2014
The Shadow King (2014)
Set Designer, Lighting Designer 2014
The Shadow King (2013)
Set Designer, Lighting Designer 2013
The Bloody Chamber
Lighting Designer 2013
Dance of Death (2013)
Lighting Designer 2013
Hate (2013)
Lighting Designer 2013
Little Match Girl (2012 - London)
Lighting Designer 2012
Wild Surmise
Lighting Designer 2012
On the Misconception of Oedipus
Lighting Designer 2012
Blood Wedding
Lighting Designer 2012
The Histrionic
Lighting Designer 2012
Little Match Girl (2012 - Sydney)
Lighting Designer 2012
Little Match Girl (2011)
Lighting Designer 2011
The Threepenny Opera (2011)
Lighting Designer 2011
Die Winterreise
Lighting Designer 2011
A Golem Story
Lighting Designer 2011
Tis Pity She's a Whore
Lighting Designer 2011
The Tell-Tale Heart (2010)
Lighting Designer 2010
The Trial
Lighting Designer 2010
Sappho...In Nine Fragments
Lighting Designer, Lighting Designer 2010
Human Interest Story
Lighting Designer 2010
The Threepenny Opera (2010)
Lighting Designer 2010
Furious Mattress
Lighting Designer 2010
Knives In Hens
Lighting Designer 2009
Happy Days (2009)
Lighting Designer 2009
Optimism
Lighting Designer 2009
Woyzeck
Lighting Designer 2009
Vamp
Lighting Designer 2008
Through The Looking Glass
Lighting Designer 2008
Venus and Adonis
Lighting Designer 2008
Moving Target
Lighting Designer 2008
Moliere's Tartuffe
Lighting Designer 2008
The Pitch (return season)
Lighting Designer 2007
The Tell-Tale Heart (2007)
Lighting Designer 2007
Criminology
Lighting Designer 2007
Take the L Out of Lover
Lighting Designer 2007
Midnight Lullabies
Lighting Designer 2007
Released
Lighting Designer 2007
Fabulous Diva: A Tribute to Nina Simone
Lighting Designer 2007
Sleeping Beauty: This is Not a Lullaby
Devisor, Lighting Designer 2007
A Porthole into the Minds of the Vanquished
Lighting Designer 2007
Paul Capsis
Lighting Designer 2007
OT: Chronicles of the Old Testament
Lighting Designer 2007
The Pitch
Lighting Designer 2007
Black
Lighting Designer 2007
Babes in the Wood (2006)
Lighting Designer 2006
Eldorado
Lighting Designer 2006
It Just Stopped
Lighting Designer 2006
Boulevard Delirium (return season)
Lighting Designer 2005
The Odyssey (2005)
Lighting Designer 2005
Recital
Lighting Designer 2005
The Ham Funeral
Lighting Designer 2005
Journal of the Plague Year
Lighting Designer 2005
The Frail Man
Lighting Designer 2004
Babes in the Wood (2003)
Lighting Designer 2003
The Fat Boy
Lighting Designer 2003
This Way Up
Lighting Designer 2001
The Prodigal Son / Insouciance
Lighting Designer 2001
Unspeakable Acts
1980
The Death of Minnie
1980
Jeremy Taylor
1979
Yamashita (1977)
1977
Current as of August 2025.