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GALLERY CREDITS

This list of credits corresponds to the photographs shown on the home  and gallery pages, and is not a comprehensive resume of productions.
Sunday
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Sarah Goodes
Design: Anna Cordingley
Costume Design: Harriet Oxley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Mary Stuart
Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Lee Lewis
Design: Elizabeth Gadsby
Costume Design: Mel Page
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Brett Boardman

Escaped Alone & What If If Only
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
Design: Marg Horwell
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson 
Photography: Pia Johnson

Lazarus
Production Company
Director: Michael Kantor
Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

No Pay, No Way
Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Sarah Giles
Design: Charlie Davis
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
​Photography: Prudence Upton

Blasted
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
Design: Marg Howell
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson



Relic
The Australian Ballet
Choreographer: Adrian Burnett
Design: Tracy Grant Lord
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson

Love and Information
Malthouse Theatre & Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Kip Williams
Design: David Fleischer
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Our Town
Queensland Theatre
Director: Lee Lewis
​Designer: Renee Mulder
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Frozen
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Julian Meyrick
Design: Ralph Myers

Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Meow Meow's The Little Mermaid
Malthouse Theatre & Sydney Festival
Director: Michael Kantor
Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Prudence Upton & Pia Johnson

Humans 2.0
Circa
Director: Yaron Lifschitz
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
Costume Design: Libby McDonnell
Technical Director: Jason Organ
Photography: Pedro Grieg


Monsters
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Matt Lutton
Choreographer: Stephanie Lake
​Set and Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson 


The Children
​Melbourne Theatre Company & Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Sarah Goodes
Design: Elizabeth Gadsby
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Human Interest Story
Lucy Guerin Inc & Malthouse Theatre
Choreographer: Lucy Guerin
Design: Gideon Obarzanek/Anna Cordingley
Costume Design: Paul Levis

Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Carmen
Opera Australia
​Director: Matt Barclay
Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
​Photography: Jeff Busby

Happy Days
Malthouse Theatre & Belvoir
Director
: Michael Kantor
Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Oil
Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Paige Rattray
Design: Emma White
Costume Design: David Fleischer
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Prudence Upton

Recital
Chamber Made Opera
Director: Douglas Horton
Costume Design: Jacqui Everitt

Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Elephant Man
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Marg Horwell
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Three Little Words
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Sarah Goodes
Design: Michael Hankin
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Eldorado
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Benedict Andrews
Design: Anna Tregloan

Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Home, I'm Darling
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Sarah Goodes
Design: Renee Mulder
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

World of Wearable Art
Director: Malia Johnston
Design: John Verryt

Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Courtesy of WOW

Out of Earshot
Kage
Choreographer: Kate Denborough
Visual Design: Paul Jackson, Stephen Hawker, James Paul
Photography: Jeff Busby

Sappho
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Marion Potts
Design: Anna Cordingley

Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby


Gaslight
Rodney Rigby & Queensland Theatre
Director: Lee Lewis
Design: Renee Mulder
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson

Photography: Brett Boardman

Chess
The Production Company
Director: Gale Edwards
Design: Shaun Gurton
Costume Design: Krystal Gidding
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson & Robert Cuddon
Photography: Jeff Busby


Circus Oz 2014: But Wait... There's More
Director: Mike Finch
Designer: Felipe Reynolds
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
Photography:
Rob Blackburn & Paul Jackson


Blaque Showgirls
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Sarah Giles
Design: Eugeene Teh
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Oedipus Rex
Belvoir
Director: Adena Jacobs
Design & Dramaturgy: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson


The Bloody Chamber
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby


Fiddler on the Roof
TL Productions
Director: Roger Hodgman
Design: Richard Roberts
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

The Shadow King
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Perth International Arts Festival
, Brisbane Festival, Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival
Director: Michael Kantor
Set Design: Michael Kantor, Paul Jackson & David Miller
Costume Design: Ruby Langton
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Madagascar
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Sam Strong
Design: Jo Briscoe
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography:
Jeff Busby

Venus & Adonis
Malthouse Theatre & Bell Shakespeare
Director: Marion Potts
Design: Anna Tregloan
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Victorian State School Spectacular
Department of Education, Performing Arts Unit
Director: Neil Gladwin
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Associate Lighting Designer: Robert Cuddon
Photography credit: Courtesy Dept of Education


Vamp (Meow Meow)
Malthouse Theatre & Sydney Opera House
Director: Michael Kantor
Design: Anna Tregloan
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby


Banderillero
Royal New Zealand Ballet (Wellington, London, various)
Choreography & Design: J
avier De Frutos
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Helen Maybanks

The Tell-Tale Heart
Malthouse Theatre & Edinburgh Festival & Sydney Festival
Director: Barrie Kosky
Design: Anna Tregloan
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
(Developed from initial designs by Paul Zerz)

Photography: Jeff Busby

The Mysteries
Sydney Theatre Company
Directors: Matt Lutton, Andrew Upton, Tom Wright
Design: Alice Babidge
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Brett Boardman

The Government Inspector
Malthouse Theatre & Belvoir
Director: Simon Stone
Design: Ralph Myers
Costume Design: Mel Page
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson


Gypsy
The Production Company
Director: Gale Edwards
Design: Adam Gardnir
Costume Design: Tim Chappel
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson & Robert Cuddon

Photography: Jeff Busby

The Threepenny Opera
Malthouse Theatre & Victorian Opera
Sydney Theatre
Company
Director: Michael Kantor
Design: Peter Corrigan
Costume Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Nora
Belvoir
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
Design: Marg Howell
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Brett Boardman
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Endgame
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Sam Strong
Designer: Callum Morton
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Knives in Hens
Malthouse Theatre & STCSA
Director: Geordie Brookman
Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby


Melancholia
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Marg Howell
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Woyzeck
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Michael Kantor
Design: Peter Corrigan
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby


Miss Julie
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Kip Williams
Set Designer: Alice Babidge
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby


The Hive
Chamber Made Opera
Director: Douglas Horton
Design: Anna Tregloan
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson & Niklas Pajanti


Hello, Goodbye and Happy Birthday
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne International Arts Festival
Director: Roslyn Oades
Designer: Christina Hayes
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

I Am A Miracle
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Matthew Lutton
Set & Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Set & Costume Design: Marg Howell
Photography: Pia Johnson


Tartuffe (2014)
Bell Shakespeare Company
Director: Peter Evans
Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Lisa Tomasetti

Bliss
Malthouse Theatre & Belvoir
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Marg Horwell
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
​Photography: Pia Johnson

Distant Matter
Staatsballett Berlin
Choreographer: Anouk van Dijk
Set and light design: Paul Jackson, Anouk van Dijk & Claus den Hartog
Photography: Jubal Battisti

Gloria
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Lee Lewis
Set Design: Christina Smith
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Brett Boardman

Happy End
Victorian Opera
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Marg Howell
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
​Photography: Jeff Busby

Miroirs
Queensland Ballet
Choreography: Remi Wörtmeyer
Design: Remi Wörtmeyer
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: David Kelly

RENT
LD Productions
Director: Shaun Rennie
Design: Dann Barber
Costume Design: Ella Butler
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
​Photography: Pia Johnson




Common Ground
Chunky Move
Choreographer: Anouk van Dijk
Design: Marg Horwell
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
​Photography: Pia Johnson

Rusalka
West Australian Opera & Opera Australia
Director: Sarah Giles
Design: Charles Davis
Costume Design: Renee Mulder
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Video Design: David Bergman
Photography: West Beach Studio

Anthem
Melbourne Festival & Performing Lines
Director: Susie Dee
Design: Marg Howell
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Solaris
Malthouse Theatre & The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Hyemi Shin
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Lorelei
Victorian Opera
Director: Sarah Giles
Design: Marg Horwell
​Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Beauty Queen of Leenane
Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Paige Rattray
Design: Renee Mulder
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Brett Boardman

On by Circa
Circa
Choreographer: Yaron Liftschitz
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

The Trial
Malthouse Theatre, ThinIce & Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Claude Marcos
Costume Design: Alice Babidge

Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

The Testament of Mary
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
Co-Design and Costume: Marg Howell
Co-Design and Lighting: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Do Not Go Gentre
Director: Paige Rattray
Design: Charles Davis
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Paul Jackson

True West
Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Design: Richard Roberts
Costume Design: Alice Babidge
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Brett Boardman


Dybbuks
Chamber Made & Theatreworks
Director: Samara Hersch
Set & Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson


Phedre
Bell Shakespeare
Director: Peter Evans
Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Rush Photography


Picnic at Hanging Rock
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Zoe Atkinson
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Death of a Salesman
Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Paige Rattray
Design: David Fleischer
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Prue Upton and Paul Jackson

Black
Anna Tregloan & Malthouse Theatre
Written, directed & designed by Anna Tregloan

Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Elektra
West Australian Opera, ThinIce, Perth International Arts Festival & Opera Australia
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Zoe Atkinson
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: James Rogers

Dreamlover The Bobby Darin Musical
Gordon Frost Organisation & Gilbert Theatrical
Director: Simon Phillips
Design: Brian Thomson
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Brian Geach

Cosmonaut
Dance Works, Wax Sound Media, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts & NYID
Composer: David Chesworth

Director: David Pledger
Design: David Pledger & Paul Jackson
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson

Away
Malthouse Theatre & Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Dale Ferguson
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Criminology
Malthouse Theatre & Arena Theatre Company
Director: Rose Myers
Design: Anna Tregloan
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Don't Say The Words
Griffin Theatre
Hobart Theatre Company
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Adam Gardnir
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
Photography: Paul Jackson

Enlightenment
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Julian Meyrick
Design: Ralph Myers
Costume Design: Miranda Flinn

Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Sleeping Beauty
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Michael Kantor
Design: Anna Tregloan

Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Strangeland
NYID
Director: David Pledger
Design: David Pledger & Paul Jackson

Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson & Niklas Pajanti
Photography: Jave Lee & Kyung Na

Night on Bald Mountain
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Dale Ferguson

Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Flesh and Bone
Kage

Conceived and Performed by: Kate Denborough & Gerard Van Dyck
Costume Design: Lisa Gorman
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Lachlan Woods

Blood Wedding
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Marion Potts
Design: The Sisters Hayes
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Kalmuk
West Australian Ballet & Perth International Arts Festival
Choreographer: Jorma Uotinen
Costume Design: Jenny Irwin
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson


Seventeen
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Matt Edgerton
Design: Christina Smith
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson

​Photography: Pia Johnson
​

Cassandra / Echo & Narcissus
Victorian Opera
Director: Sam Strong
Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
​Photography: Jeff Busby

Stripped
La Mama
Director: Laurence Strangio
Design: Laurence Strangio & Paul Jackson
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

A Golem Story
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Michael Kantor
Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

K
NYID & Melbourne International Arts Festival
Seoul Performing Arts Festival
Director: David Pledger
Design: David Pledger & Paul Jackson
Lighting Design: Shane Grant
Photography: Lyn Poole

Meow Meow's Little Match Girl
Malthouse Theatre
Sydney Festival
Southbank Centre London
Director: Marion Potts
Design: Anna Cordingley
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby (Melbourne), Pia Johnson (Sydney)

The Magic Flute
Victorian Opera
Director: Jean-Pierre Mignon
Design: Richard Roberts
Costume Design: Christina Smith
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

La Traviata
Opera Queensland, SOSA & WA Opera
Director: Sarah Giles
Design: Charles Davis
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jade Ferguson

On the Misconception of Oedipus
Malthouse Theatre & Perth Theatre Company
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Zoe Atkinson
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby


Private Lives
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Sam Strong
Design: Tracy Grant Lord

Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby


Antigone
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Adena Jacobs
Design: The Hayes Sisters
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Die Winterreise
ThinIce & Malthouse Theatre
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Adam Gardnir
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson


The Producers
The Production Company
Director: Dean Bryant
Design: Adam Gardnir
Costume Design:
Kim Bishop and Paris

Lighting Design: Paul Jackson & Robert Cuddon
Photography: Jeff Busby

The Odyssey
Malthouse Theatre, Black Swan, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Perth International Arts Festival
Director: Michael Kantor
Design: Anna Tregloan
Costume Design: Zoe Atkinson
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby


Tartuffe (2008)
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Anna Tregloan
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

The Ghost Writer
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Julian Meyrick
Design: Stephen Curtis
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Through the Looking Glass
Victorian Opera & Malthouse Theatre
Director: Michael Kantor
Design: Peter Corrigan
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

The Boy Castaways (Film)
Director: Michael Kantor
Production Design: Anna Tregloan
Cinematographer: Judd Overton
Theatre Lighting Design Consultant: Paul Jackson
Photography: Lisa Tomasetti

The Histrionic
Malthouse Theatre & Sydney Theatre Company
Director: Daniel Schlusser
Design: Marg Howell
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets
Malthouse Theatre, Victorian Opera & Melbourne Festival
Director: Matt Lutton
Design: Zoe Atkinson
​Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
​Photography: Pia Johnson


Ghosts
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Gale Edwards
Design: Shaun Gurton
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Double Indemnity
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Sam Strong
Design: Andrew Bailey
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby

Anti-Gravity
Chunky Move
Choreographer: Anouk van Dijk
Visual design: Anouk van Dijk,
Ho Tzu Nyen & Paul Jackson
Lighting design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pippa Samaya


The Merchant of Venice
Bell Shakespeare
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
Design: Michael Hankin
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Prudence Upton


Axeman Lullaby
BalletLab
Choreographer: Phillip Adams
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson & Niklas Pajanti
​Photography: Jeff Busby

Stop Girl
Belvoir
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
Design: Bob Cousins
​Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
​Photography: Brett Boardman


Melbourne Museum Triceratops
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson & Niklas Pajanti
​

First Casualty
Queensland Theatre
Director: Lee Lewis
Design: Renee Mulder
Video Design: Craig Wilkinson
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Brett Boardman

Nosferatu
Malthouse Theatre
Director: Brigid Balodis
Design: Romaine Harper
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Pia Johnson

Cyrano
Melbourne Theatre Company
Director: Sarah Goodes
Design: Elizabeth Gadsby
Costume Design: Jo Briscoe
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Photography: Jeff Busby


My Brilliant Career
Queensland Ballet
Choreographer: Cathy Marston
Design: David Fleischer
​Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Video Design: Craig Wilkinson
Photography: David Kelly


Breaking the Waves
Opera Australia
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks
Design: Marg Horwell
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
​Photography: Paul Jackson
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