Spender Herd

Spencer 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. Spencer’s deepest passions for design are lighting the world of sound through a collaborative process, whether that being music, composition, a soundscape or musical theatre. 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. Homo Pentecostus is Spencer’s debut with Malthouse.

Other recent credits as lighting designer include Frame Narrative (Old Fitz Theatre), The Lonesome West (Old Fitz Theatre), WHAT OF IT (Explosives Factory), The Crocodile (fortyfivedownstairs), Lehenda: Ukrainian Soul, Australian Soil (The National Theatre Melbourne), Curveball (La Mama Courthouse), Pull the Pin (Blue Room Theatre), and From All Who Came Before (La Mama HQ). Credits as associate lighting designer include Far Away (fortyfivedownstairs); Wittenoom (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (fortyfivedownstairs). He has also seconded with Trent Suidgeest on Muriel’s Wedding the Musical for Global Creatures at Her Majesty’s Theatre.