Nick Schlieper - Lighting Design

Nick Schlieper

Nick has designed lighting for all the major performing companies in Australia and works regularly in Europe.

Credits include: Don Giovanni, Nabucco, Tannhäuser, Il Trovatore, Der Freischütz, L’Elisir d’Amore, Andrea Chénier, Falstaff (Green Room Award), Seraglio (Opera Australia); Flying Dutchman, Ken Russell’s Madam Butterfly (Victorian State Opera); The Ring Cycle (also associate set designer), Parsifal, Salome (SOSA); Don Giovanni (and set) (Opera Queensland); Macbeth (and set, Opera NZ); War of the Roses, The Serpent’s Teeth, (Sydney Theatre Critics Award), The Year of Magical Thinking, Blackbird, Season at Sarsaparilla, Reunion, A Kind of Alaska, Mother Courage, Hedda Gabler (Sydney and New York), Dissident, Victory, Howard Katz, A Doll’s House, Volpone, Don Juan, The Three Sisters (STC); Poor Boy, Ninety, The Glass Soldier, Cyrano de Bergerac, Two Brothers, The Visit (Green Room Award), Inheritance, Great Expectations, Proof, The Tempest (MTC); Cosi, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Marat/Sade, The Idiot (State Theatre of SA); The Tempest, Good Works (and set design), XPO (QTC); Lulu, Black Mary, The Unexpected Man (Belvoir); Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello (Bell Shakespeare); Bush (Helpmann Award), Boomerang (Green Room Award) (Bangarra Dance Company); Scheherezade (Australian Ballet); Cinderella (Royal NZ Ballet); Billy Budd, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hamburg State Opera); Macbeth, Peer Gynt (Bavarian State Theatre); UFA Revue, Ein Florentinerhut, Michael Kramer (Berlin); The Ginger Man, Armut, Reichtum (Hamburg); Tales of Hoffmann (Wiesbaden); The Government Inspector (Theatr Clwyd); Kasimir und Karoline, Lea’s Hochzeit (Vienna); and The Hostage (RSC). Future work includes Liv Ullman’s Streetcar Named Desire with Cate Blanchett in Sydney, New York and Washington.