Matthew Scott
LIGHTING DESIGNERMatt is one of Australia’s leading lighting designers with 25 years experience in the industry designing more than 200 productions for Theatre, Opera, Dance and Music Theatre.
He returns to State Opera South Australia having previously lit The Pearlfishers, La Traviata and La Sonambula for the company. Other recent work includes Shakespeare in Love, Storm Boy, The Lady in the Van, The Architect and An Ideal Husband for Melbourne Theatre Company; Parsifal for Victorian Opera; A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Oklahoma for the Production Company; and Dance of Death for Belvoir.
He has received and been nominated for numerous awards, including a 2017 Green Room Award for The Pearlfishers and a 2005 Helpmann Award for his lighting on Urinetown the Musical which followed his 2003 Helpmann Award for The Blue Room, both productions were with The Melbourne Theatre Company. Matt is a Lecturer in Lighting Design at Victorian College of Arts (University of Melbourne).