Matt Scott

Lighting Designer

For the past 20 years Matt has as worked as lighting designer for all Australia’s leading performing arts companies with over 200 productions to his credit.

Recent credits include Rigoletto, Don Pasquale, La Sonnambula (Opera Australia); The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Madame Butterfly (OzOpera); La Bohème, (Western Australia Opera/ Opera Australia); The Riders (Victorian Opera/Malthouse Theatre); Nixon in China, The Rake’s Progress (Victorian Opera); La Traviata (NZOpera/SOSA/OQ); Madame Butterfly (NSOpera); The Red Shoes, Where The Heart Is  (Expressions Dance Company); As You Like It, A Streetcar Named Desire, Rising Water, The Year of Magical Thinking (Black Swan State Theatre Company).  Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing (Bell Shakespeare); The Dragon (Malthouse Theatre), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (TML Enterprises); Eat, Pray, Laugh: Barry Humphries Farewell Tour (Dainty Group); The Mountaintop, Elling, His Girl Friday, Red, The Seed, Tribes, The Importance of Being Earnest, Clybourne Park, A Behanding in Spokane, The Drowsy Chaperone, August Osage County (Melbourne Theatre Company).

He has been nominated for and received numerous awards having twice received a Helpmann award for his lighting.