Lighting, Set & Costume Designer

Biography

Kelsey is a Sydney based lighting, set and costume designer. Her work is primarily created for live performance, including theatre, dance and events, for mainstage and independent companies. Her designs that fuse lighting, set and costumes, aim to explore scenography through the sculpting of architecture and space to tell a story. She is highly collaborative as a designer, working closely with the creative team to develop the vision of the show. Kelsey is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Design for Performance), and is the first person to have solely designed the set, lighting, props and costume for her graduating show. Kelsey has been nominated for two Sydney Theatre Awards for lighting design and won the award for Best Set Design for her work as the Co-Designer on "Destroy, She Said".

RECENT WORKS
upcoming
Tell Me On A SUnday | Lighting Designer | Hayes Theatre | Dir. Blazey Best
Switzerland | Costume Designer | Ensemble Theatre | Dir. Shaun Rennie
Masterclass | Lighting Designer | Ensemble Theatre | Dir. Liesel Badorrek
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime | Lighting Designer | Belvoir St Theatre | Dir. Hannah Goodwin

2024
The Lewis Trilogy | Lighting Designer | Griffin Theatre Company | Dir. Declan Greene
gurr era opp | Lighting Designer | Force Majeure | dir. Ghenoa Gela

2023
Somos | Set & Costume Designer | Sydney Dance Company | Chor. Rafael Bonachela
Memory of Water | Lighting Designer | Ensemble Theatre | Dir. Rachel Chant
An Ox Stand On My Tongue | Set & Lighting Designer | 25A Belvoir | Dir. Abbie-Lee Lewis
Mutiara | Lighting Designer | Marrugeku | Co-created by Amin Farid, Dalisa Pigram, and Zee Zunnur
At What Cost? National Tour | Associate Lighting Designer | Belvoir St Theatre | Lighting Designer Chloe Ogilvie | Dir. Isaac Drandic
Skyduck | Lighting Designer | Auckland Arts FEstival & Tour | Dir. Aileen Huynh
Sex Magick | Lighting Designer | Griffin Theatre Company | Dir. Declan Greene  & Nicholas Brown
blue | associate lighting designer | belvoir St Theatre | Lighting Designer Chloe Ogilvie | Dir. Deborah Thomas

2022
A Practical Guide To Self Defence | Set & Costume Designer | NToP | Dir. Dom Mercer
Nothing | Set Designer | NToP | Dir. Erin Taylor
Whitefella yella Tree | Lighting Designer | Griffin Theatre Company | Dir. Declan Greene & Amy Sole
Comedy Of Errors | Lighting Designer | Bell Shakespeare National Tour |  Dir. Janine Watson
Unqualified 2: Still Unqualified | Lighting Designer | Ensemble Theatre | Dir. Janine Watson
A Letter For Molly | Lighting Designer | Ensemble Theatre | Dir. Ursula Yovich
a Is for Apple | Lighting Designer | Griffin Lookout | Dir. Scarlet McGlynn
Destroy, She Said | Lighting, Co-Set & Co-Costume Designer | Belvoir 25A | Dir. Claudia OsbornE
At What Cost? | Associate Lighting Designer | Belvoir St Theatre | Lighting Designer. Chloe Ogilvie | Dir. Isaac Drandic
killing Katie | Lighting Designer | Ensemble Theatre | Dir. Frankie Savige

2021
Young & Gorgeous | Lighting, Set & Costume Designer | Brand x | Devised by Adriane Daff & Eliza Scott
Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge | Lighting, Set & Costume Designer | Australian Chamber Orchestra | Dir. Sandie Eldridge
Jali | Lighting, Set & Costume Designer | Griffin Lookout/ Aya Productions | Dir. Erin Taylor
Outdated | Lighting Designer | Ensemble | Dir. Mark Kilmurry
Queen Fatima | Lighting designer | NTOP | Dir. Paige Rattray

2020
A Room Of One's Own | Lighting Designer | Belvoir St Theatre | Dir. Carissa Licciardello
The Recidivists | Lighting Designer | Mantaur/ Redline Productions | Dir. Pierce Wilcox

2019
Shang-Chi: The Legend of the 10 Rings | Set Decorator Intern | Marvel Studios 
Kasama Kita | Lighting Designer | Belvoir 25A | Dir. Erin Taylor  
TrackWorks | Lighting Designer | Bontom at Mortuary station | dir. Clemence Williams
I'm With Her | Lighting Designer | Darlinghurst Theatre Company | Dir. Victoria Midwinter Pitt
Good Dog | Lighting Designer | Greendoor Theatre Company/KXT Bakehouse | Dir. Rachel Chant
April Aardvark | Lighting Designer | ATYP | Dir. Amy Hardingham
Homesick | Lighting Designer | Old 505 | dir. Claudia Osborne
Long Story Short | Art Department Assistant | See Pictures | Dir. Josh Lawson | Des. Steven Jones-Evans
Catch Me If You Can | Set Designer| Hayes Theatre/LPD Productions | Dir. Cameron Mitchell
SkyDuck | Lighting Designer | Belvoir 25A | Dir. Aileen Huynh
Trevor | Lighting Designer | Outhouse Theatre Company/KXT Bakehouse | Dir. Shaun Rennie
Normal | Set and Lighting Designer | Old 505 | Dir. Anthony Skuse
There's A Sea In My Bedroom | Set, Lighting and Costume Designer | Australian Chamber Orchestra | dir. Tim McGarry
Extinction Of The Learned Response | Lighting Designer | Belvoir 25a/glitterbomb productions | dir. Carissa Licciardello
Every Brilliant Thing | Relight Designer After Amelia Lever-Davidson | Belvoir St Theatre | dir. Kate Champion 
fierce | lighting designer | Redline Productions at the Old Fitz | dir. Janine Watson
comedy kiki | Set & Lighting Designer | Darlinghurst Theatre Company
If we got some more cocaine i could show you how i love you | lighting designer | Greendoor Theatre Company/kxt bakehouse | dir. warwick doddrell
the other side of 25 | lighting Designer | Bontom/old 505 | Dir. ellen Wiltshire

2018
LULU: A Modern Sex Tragedy | Set, Lighting & costume Designer | NIDA | Dir. Claudia Osborne
EXPONIDA | LIGHTING & CO-DESIGNER
shabbat dinner | Co - Designer | Griffin Theatre Company | Dir. Anthony Skuse
The Humans | Lighting Designer | Redline Productions at the Old Fitz/Mophead | Dir. Anthea Williams
pleb | Production Designer | Triple J Unearthed | Dir. Claudia Osborne
Stupid Fucking Bird | Assistant Costume Designer | New Theatre | Dir. Warwick Doddrell
AIR | Set & Costume Designer | Old 505 | Dir. Anthony SKuse
A Taste Of Honey | Set and Costume Secondment after Mel Page | Belvoir St Theatre | dir. Eamon FLack
injest: The Last SUpper | Lighting Designer | Bite Productions/KXT | Dir. Eve Beck
Dead Centre/ Sea Wall | Set, Lighting & Costume designer | STooged Theatre | Dir. Andrew McInnes

2017
Ladies in Black | Art Department Intern | Fox Studios
Only Different | Art Department | ABC Arts and Screen Australia | Dir. Thomas Wilson-White | Des. Ellen Stanistreet
C'Mon: Lleyton Hewitt The Musical | Set & Costume Designer | ATYP Showcase/ Bontom | Devised by Thomas DeAngelis, Sam Boneham and Laurence Rosier Staines
Your Mates | Production Designer | Web series | Dir. Jessica Falkholt
The Greenhouse | Art Department Assistant | Feature Film | Dir. Thomas Wilson-White | Des. Isabella Andronos, Ellen Stanistreet
The Horrific Murder of Grigori Rasputin | Art Department Co-Ordinator | NIDA 

2016
Jasper Jones | Costume Secondment, after Mel Page | Belvoir st Theatre | Dir. Anne-Louise Sarks​​​​​​​
Spring Awakening | Set & costume assistant after Simon Greer, Lighting Assistant after Damien Cooper and Ross Graham | ATYP | dir. Mitchell Butel
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