HLA MANAGEMENT NATALIE STEWART +61 2 9549 3000 hla@hlamgt.com.au 87 Pitt Street Redfern NSW 2016 Australia TRENT SUIDGEEST LIGHTING DESIGNER +61 409 446 830 trent@trentsuidgeest.com www.trentsuidgeest.com THEATRICAL DESIGN CREDITS: 2017 MURIEL S WEDDING THE MUSICAL Directed by Simon Phillips Sydney Theatre Company / Global Creatures JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR new production Directed by Gale Edwards The Production Company, Melbourne PRAYING FOR TIME A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE MICHAEL Directed by Amanda Pelman Sydney Symphony Orchestra LOVE AND MONEY by Dennis Kelly Directed by Judy Davis NIDA Guest Designer ONLY HEAVEN KNOWS Directed by Shaun Rennie Luckiest Productions CARMEN Directed by John Bell Opera Australia Melbourne Season TALK by Jonathan Biggins Directed by Jonathan Biggins Sydney Theatre Company THE HOMOSEXUALS, OR FAGGOTS by Declan Greene Directed by Lee Lewis Griffin Theatre Company / Malthouse Theatre CALAMITY JANE Directed by Richard Carroll One-Eyed Man Productions / Hayes Theatre Company
2016 DUSTY THE MUSICAL new production Directed by Jason Langley The Production Company, Melbourne THE BEAST new production Directed by Simon Phillips Ambassador Theatre Group FROM SYDNEY WITH LOVE A concert for the victims of the Orlando shooting Directed by Trevor Ashley Sydney Town Hall CARMEN new production Directed by John Bell Opera Australia HAY FEVER Directed by Imara Savage Sydney Theatre Company THE RABBITS Written by Kate Miller-Heidke, Lally Katz, Iain Grandage Opera Australia & Barking Gecko Theatre Company 2016 Sydney Festival and QPAC Brisbane Season Nominated Best Lighting Design in Opera - 2016 Green Room Awards THE GREAT RIDOLPHI World Premiere Set, Lighting and Projection Designer The Last Great Hunt Fringeworld Martin Sims Award winner 2015 NEXT TO NORMAL THE RED BALLOON World Premiere Director Chrissie Parrott THE RABBITS Melbourne Festival season Written by Kate Miller-Heidke, Lally Katz, Iain Grandage Opera Australia & Barking Gecko Theatre Company http://www.trentsuidgeest.com/ 2
2015 EXTINCTION World Premiere Directed by Stuart Halusz NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Directed by Roger Hodgman The Production Company, Melbourne KINGS OF WAR World Premiere Wiener Festwochen Assistant to Scenographer and Light Designer Jan Versweyveld Directed by Ivo van Hove Toneelgroep Amsterdam DINNER Set & Black Swan Theatre Company THE RABBITS World Premiere, Perth Festival Written by Kate Miller-Heidke, Lally Katz, Iain Grandage Opera Australia & Barking Gecko Theatre Company 2014 GASP! World Premiere Queensland Theatre Company / BORDERLINE World Premiere Choreographed by Aimee Smith LAUGHTER ON THE 23 RD FLOOR JASPER JONES World Premiere Barking Gecko Theatre Company DUST World Premiere Directed by Emily McLean JACKMAN FURNESS FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LAUNCH Launched at WA Academy of Performing Arts http://www.trentsuidgeest.com/ 3
2014 THE HOUSE ON THE LAKE World Premiere Directed by Stuart Halusz FIGHTS AND FLIGHTS World Premiere Set & Artistic Director Alice Lee Holland Steps Youth Dance Company 2013 MIDSUMMER (A PLAY WITH SONGS) Directed by Damon Lockwood SHRINE World Premiere Set & / Centenery of Canberra Festival OTHER DESERT CITIES / Queensland Theatre Company WINTERING World Premiere: Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Choreographed by Aimee Smith Strut Dance Presents DEATH OF A SALESMAN Set & THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST DUCK, DEATH AND THE TULIP Barking Gecko Theatre Company / Perth International Arts Festival THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT 2012 MANAGING CARMEN World Premiere Queensland Theatre Company / http://www.trentsuidgeest.com/ 4
2012 BOY GETS GIRL TINY LITTLE TRAGEDIES World Premiere Set & Choreographed by Alice Lee Holland Strut Dance Presents THIS GIRL LAUGHS, THIS GIRL CRIES, THIS GIRL DOES NOTHING World Premiere Directed by Noel Jordan Barking Gecko Theatre Company TRY HARD World Premiere Choreographed by Alice Lee Holland Steps Youth Dance Company NATIONAL INTEREST World Premiere Directed by Aidan Fennessey Melbourne Theatre Company / ARCADIA THE WHITE DIVERS OF BROOME World Premiere / Perth International Arts Festival WA Equity Guild Award Nomination : Best Design I AM EORA World Premiere Sydney Festival / Performing Lines 2012-2015 PERTH FESTIVAL GARDENS for Artistic Director Jonathan Holloway Perth International Arts Festival 2011 TAKING LIBERTY Directed by Chris Bendall Deckchair Theatre WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING http://www.trentsuidgeest.com/ 5
2011 THE AMBER AMULET World Premiere Barking Gecko Theatre Company KISMET Directed by Terence O Connell The Production Company NINETY Directed by Marcelle Schmitz Black Swan Theatre Company A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM WALTZING THE WILARRA World Premiere Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company / Perth International Arts Festival 2010 THE KING AND I Directed by Terence O Connell The Production Company THE SAPPHIRES - new production Belvoir / Seasons in: London (Barbican Theatre), South Korea, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, Geelong, Wollongong, Sheapparton, Frankston. 2009 THE DARK ROOM World Premiere Black Swan s The HotBed Ensemble POOL (NO WATER) Black Swan s The HotBed Ensemble http://www.trentsuidgeest.com/ 6
OTHER EXPERIENCES 2015 KINGS OF WAR Toneelgroep Amsterdam Directed by Ivo van Hove Assistant to Jan Versweyveld 2014 Lighting Design observations: A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Young Vic premiere season Directed by Ivo van Hove Scenographer and Jan Versweyveld BIRDLAND Royal Court Theatre THE SILVER TASSIE National Theatre London with Neil Austin SUNNY AFTERNOON The Musical Hampstead Theatre with Rick Fisher LES MISERABLES Imperial Theatre, New York with Paule Constable ACT ONE Lincoln Center Theater with Ken Billington THE ROCKETTES SPRING SPECTACULAR Radio City Musical Hall with Associate Daniel Walker 2008 BILLY ELLIOT The Musical Imperial Theatre, 8 weeks of Broadway bump in Secondment with Rick Fisher GRANTS 2015 Mike Walsh Fellowship 2015 WA Dept of Culture and the Arts : Young People Fellowship 2014 Australia Council for the Arts : Creative Professional Grant 2010 Australia Council for the Arts : Artstart Grant EDUCATION WA Academy of Performing Arts Bachelor of Performing Arts (Production & Design) 2006-2008 HLA Management Pty Ltd For any further information please contact NATALIE STEWART +612 9549 3000 hla@hlamgt.com.au 87 Pitt Street Redfern NSW 2016 Australia PO Box 1536 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 Australia ACN 002 916 574 http://www.trentsuidgeest.com/ 7