about

Morgan Moroney (he/him) is an award-winning lighting and video designer working across theatre, opera, dance and installation. Growing up on Kaurna land, he currently lives and works primarily on Gadigal land. He brings a distinct multidisciplinary approach to his practice, with a particular fascination for integrated-media live performance.

A graduate of NIDA, Morgan received the 2020 APDG Emerging Designer for Live Performance Award for his design on Ghosts (NIDA). Morgan has been nominated three times for a Sydney Theatre Award in Best Independent Lighting Design, winning in 2023 for Collapsible (essential workers). He won the 2023 APDG Award in Lighting Design for Cleansed (Redline Productions). In 2024, Morgan was the recipient of the Michael Northen Award for emerging Lighting Designers, administered by the Association for Lighting Production and Design in the UK.

Morgan’s work as Lighting Designer includes Saplings (ATYP), Shitty (Belvoir 25A) Inferno (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra), Girls in Boys’ Cars (NTofP), Suddenly Last Summer and Clyde’s (Ensemble), The Barber of Seville (Opera Australia National Tour), Shack (ATYP) and Anatomy of a Suicide (Sugary Rum Productions). His video design work includes A Letter for Molly and Still Unqualified (Ensemble). Morgan’s recent collaborations as Lighting and Video Designer include: Collapsible, which he also co-directed, CAMP (Siren Theatre & WorldPride) and A Practical Guide to Self-Defence (Merrigong & NTofP).

In March 2022, Morgan worked with Nick Schlieper as Assistant Lighting Designer for The Phantom of the Opera on Sydney Harbour (Opera Australia).
Morgan was also awarded the inaugural NIDA X Storytelling Futures grant. His upcoming productions for 2024 include Nayika: A Dancing Girl (Belvoir), Dido & Aeneas (Pinchgut Opera) and The Turn of the Screw (Hayes Theatre Co). Morgan is one half of independent theatre contingent essential workers.

Morgan is represented by HLA Management.
E: natalie.stewart@hlamgt.com.au or morgan@morganmoroney.com

awards

WINNER | Best Lighting Design of an Independent Production 2023
Sydney Theatre Awards, for Collapsible (Redline & essential workers)

WINNER | Michael Northen Award for Lighting Design 2023
Association for Lighting Production and Design, UK

WINNER | Event Engineering Lighting Design Award 2023
Australian Production Design Guild, for Cleansed (Redline & Maximillian Brown)

WINNER | NIDA X Storytelling Futures Grant 2022
National Insitute of Dramatic Art, for Collapsible

WINNER | Emerging Designer for Live Performance 2021
Australian Production Design Guild, for Ghosts (NIDA 2020)

nominations

NOMINATION | Event Engineering Lighting Design Award 2023
Australian Production Design Guild, for Anatomy of a Suicide (Sugary Rum & Chopt Logic)

NOMINATION | Best Independent Lighting Design 2022
Sydney Theatre Awards, for Cleansed (Redline & Maximillian Brown)

NOMINATION | Best Independent Lighting Design 2021
Sydney Theatre Awards, for Significant Other (New Theatre)

media

Spotlight on Morgan Moroney’s journey from NIDA to award-winning Lighting Design - NIDA

Ghosts Process Interview - Australian Production Design Guild

Conjuring the Intangible: Reflections on process from a Lighting Designer - ADSR Zine, March 2022

Lighting and Video Designer’s Future Shines Bright - Department for the Arts & NIDA

upcoming projects

2024

NAYIKA: A DANCING GIRL dir. Nithya Nagarajan & Liv Satchell | Lighting Designer
Belvoir | Upstairs Theatre

DIDO & AENEAS dir. Lucy Clements | Lighting Designer
Pinchgut Opera | City Recital Hall

THE TURN OF THE SCREW (opera) dir. Craig Baldwin | Lighting Designer
Hayes Theatre Co & Craig Baldwin | Hayes Theatre

THE QUEEN’S NANNY dir. Priscilla Jackman | Lighting Designer
Ensemble Theatre

COLDER THAN HERE dir. Janine Watson | Lighting Designer
Ensemble Theatre

selected credits

2024

SHITTY dir. Zoë Hollyoak | Lighting Designer
Belvoir 25A & essential workers | Downstairs Theatre

SAPLINGS dir. Abbie-Lee Lewis | Lighting & co-Set Designer
ATYP / Sydney Festival | Rebel Theatre

THE DRY dir. Harley Mann | Lighting Designer
Circa Cairns | Cairns Performing Arts Centre

2023

COLLAPSIBLE by Margaret Perry | co-Director, Lighting & co-Video Designer
essential workers / Redline | Old Fitz Theatre

INFERNO dir. Constantine Costi | Lighting & co-Set Designer
Brandenburg Orchestra | Casula Powerhouse

TRACK WORKS (opera) dir. Clemence Williams | Lighting Designer
BBT Theatre Company | Mortuary Train Station

GIRLS IN BOYS CARS dir. Priscilla Jackman | Lighting Designer
National Theatre of Parramatta | Lennox Theatre

MR. BAILEY’S MINDER dir. Damien Ryan | Lighting Designer
Ensemble Theatre

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER dir. Shaun Rennie | Lighting Designer
Ensemble Theatre

CLYDE’S dir. Darren Yap | Lighting Designer
Ensemble Theatre

THE NUTCRACKER dir. Elsie Edgerton-Till | Lighting Designer
Australian Chamber Orchestra | ACO Neilson Theatre

JALI dir. Oliver Twist | Lighting & Set Designer
SOHO Theatre, London (return season)

CAMP dir. Kate Gaul | Lighting & Video Designer
Siren Theatre Co, Seymour Centre & Sydney WorldPride | Reginald Theatre

KAIROS dir. & chor. Meryl Tankard | Associate Video Designer
Sydney Festival 2023 & FORM | Carriageworks Bay 20

MAUREEN: HARBINGER OF DEATH | Associate Lighting Designer
Adelaide Festival, LD: Nick Schlieper

2022

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE dir. Priscilla Jackman | Lighting Designer
Opera Australia | National Tour 2022-23

CLEANSED dir. Dino Dimitriadis | co-Lighting Designer
Maximillian Brown & Redline | Old Fitz Theatre

ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE dir. Shane Anthony | Lighting Designer
Sugary Rum, Chopt Logic & Seymour Centre | Reginald Theatre

SHACK dir. Hayden Tonazzi | Lighting Designer
Australian Theatre for Young People | Rebel Theatre

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SELF-DEFENCE dir. Dom Mercer | Lighting & Video Designer
NTofP & Merrigong | Lennox & Bruce Gordon Theatres

ART + INFORMATION dir. Kate Gaul | Set, Lighting & Video Designer
Seymour Centre & USYD | Reginald Theatre

JALI dir. Oliver Twist | Lighting & Set Designer
Seymour Centre, Reginald Theatre & national tour

BEING HERE NOW & UH OH (Dance Double Bill) | Lighting Designer
Redline | Old Fitz Theatre

A LETTER FOR MOLLY dir. Ursula Yovich | Video Designer
Ensemble Theatre

STILL UNQUALIFIED dir. Janine Watson | Video Designer
Ensemble Theatre

PPY22: REVEALED | co-Lighting Designer
Sydney Dance Company | Carriageworks Bay 20

MAUREEN: HARBINGER OF DEATH | Associate Lighting Designer
Rising Festival & Darwin Festival, LD: Nick Schlieper

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ON SYDNEY HARBOUR dir. Simon Phillips | Assistant Lighting Designer
Opera Australia, LD: Nick Schlieper

2021

JAGGED LITTLE PILL AU | Assistant Video Designer
GWB Entertainment | Theatre Royal

SIGNIFICANT OTHER dir. Hayden Tonazzi | Lighting Designer
New Theatre

THE CONSTRUCT dir. Zebastian Hunter | Lighting Designer
Circus Monoxide & Quiet Riot | Bruce Gordon Theatre

OUTDATED dir. Mark Kilmurry
co-Video Designer | Ensemble

OTHELLO & THE TEMPEST dir. Damien Ryan | Lighting Associate
Sport for Jove | York Theatre & Riverside Theatre

CLAUDEL dir. Wendy Beckett chor. Meryl Tankard | Video Associate
Tinderbox | Sydney Opera House, Playhouse

ERNANI dir. Sven-Eric Bechtolf | Video Associate |
Opera Australia & Teatro Alla Scala | Sydney Opera House, Joan Sutherland Theatre

2020

GHOSTS dir. Priscilla Jackman | Lighting & Video Designer
NIDA | Reg Grundy Studio

ANTIGONICK dir. Zoë Hollyoak | Lighting & Video Designer
NIDA | Space Theatre

AND TELL SAD STORIES OF THE DEATH OF QUEENS dir. Liam McIlwain | Lighting Designer
NIDA | Space Theatre

THE CAT dir. Amelia Burke | Lighting Designer
NIDA | Space Theatre

EVERYBODY dir. Gabriel Fancourt | Lighting Designer
Cross Pollinate & bAKEHOUSE | King's Cross Theatre

PIT dir. Mikala Westall | Lighting Designer
sandpaperplane | Old 505 Theatre

TALKBACK dir. Elise Wilson | Video Designer
sandpaperplane | Blue Room Theatre

DAVIDDAVIS@ dir. Andrew McInnes (staged workshop) | Lighting Designer
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Music Workshop

NOISE (audiovisual installation) | co-Designer & Producer
Articulate Project Space

2019

FAUST dir. Sam Trotman | Lighting Designer
NIDA | Space Theatre

A RESPECTABLE WEDDING dir. Tait De Lorenzo | Lighting Designer
NIDA | Space Theatre

MARAT/SADE dir. Gavin Robins & John Bashford | Video Designer
NIDA | Studio Theatre

HAMLET - A NEWER AUSTRALIAN PLAY dir. Riley Spadaro | Video Designer
ban shakespeare | Bondi Pavilion Theatre & here we are @ AGNSW

THIS BITTER EARTH dir. Riley Spadaro | Associate Lighting Designer
New Theatre

2018 - preceding

EX MACHINA dir. Finn Caldwell | Video Associate
NIDA | Space Theatre

^{Photo by Andrew Fraser}