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: Associate Lighting Designer for Homo Pentecostus; Assistant Lighting Designer for Truth and the Malthouse Artist Development Program (Lighting Design, 2025). Other Theatre: Lighting Designer for 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 and The Lonesome West (Old Fitz Theatre); WHAT OF IT (Explosives Factory); The Crocodile (fortyfivedownstairs); Lehenda, Ukranian Soul and Australian Soil (National Theatre Melbourne); Curveball and From All Who Came Before (La Mama); and Pull the Pin (Blue Room Theatre). Associate Lighting Designer for Rhinoceros, Far Away and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (fortyfivedownstairs); Wittenoom (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); A Model Murder (Sydney Festival); and La Cage aux Folles (David M. Hawkins / Arts Centre Melbourne). He has also seconded with Trent Suidgeest on Muriel’s Wedding the Musical (Global Creatures).