Trent Suidgeest

Lighting Designer, Prima Facie

Trent Suidgeest’s lighting design credits include:

• For Griffin Theatre Company: The Feather in the Web, First Love is the Revolution, The Homosexuals or ‘Faggots’, Kill Climate Deniers, Prima Facie, Wicked Sisters
• For Belvoir/Black Swan State Theatre Company: The Sapphires (which toured to Barbican, London and Daegu Opera House, South Korea)
• For Black Swan State Theatre Company: over 20 mainstage productions, recently including Oklahoma!, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
• For Black Swan State Theatre Company/Melbourne Theatre Company: National Interest; for Darlinghurst Theatre Company: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
• For Ensemble Theatre: Black Cockatoo, Folk
• For Global Creatures: Muriel’s Wedding The Musical (also at Sydney Theatre Company)
• For Hayes Theatre Company: Calamity Jane (including Australian tour and Belvoir), Darlinghurst Nights, Gypsy, Only Heaven Knows, The Rise and Disguise of Elizabeth R, The View UpStairs, Young Frankenstein
• For Opera Australia: Carmen, Sydney Opera House—The Opera (The Eighth Wonder), The Rabbits
• For The Production Company: The Boy From Oz, Dusty, Jesus Christ Superstar, The King & I, Nice Work If You Can Get It
• For Red Line Productions: Betty Blokk-Buster Reimagined
• For Sydney Theatre Company: Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Appropriate, Hay Fever, Talk

In 2015, with a Mike Walsh Fellowship, Trent assisted Jan Versweyveld and Ivo van Hove at Toneelgroep Amsterdam on their Shakespearian epic Kings of War at Wiener Festwochen.