Niklas Pajanti - Lighting Designer
Niklas works as a lighting designer across contemporary dance, drama, opera and events.
His designs include I Want to Dance Better at Parties, Singularity, Tense Dave, Three’s a Crowd (Chunky Move); Baghdad Wedding, Yibiyung, The Pillowman and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Company B); For Samuel Beckett-Endgame, Not What I am - Othello Retold, Winter’s Tale, King John, The Crucible, Yet Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves, Because of the Increasing Disorder (The Eleventh Hour); When the Rain Stops Falling (Brink Productions); Kitten (Jenny Kemp/ Malthouse Theatre), Not Like Beckett (Malthouse Theatre); Holiday (Ranters Theatre); Osama the Hero (The Rabble); Axeman Lullaby (BalletLab); Appetite (Kage); Frank Woodley-Possessed, Spicks and Speck-tacular, Lano and Woodley-Goodbye (Token Events); The Meaning of Moorabbin is Open For Inspection (Not Yet It's Difficult); Murundak (Black Arm Band/ Melbourne International Arts Festival) and This Show Is About People (Shaun Parker/Marguerite Pepper/Melbourne International Arts Festival).
Niklas also worked as Assistant Lighting Designer on Teorema, The Hive and Crossing Livec (Chamber Made); Senes of the Beginning from the End and K (Not Yet It’s Difficult).
Niklas is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and holds postgraduate qualifications in Illuminating Engineering from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
He has been nominated for 7 Victorian Green Room Awards and 1 Helpmann Industry Award. He is the recipient of a Green Room Award.
Currently Niklas is principal lighting designer for trafficlight, an independent specialist design and management studio based in Melbourne.
Nicklas is the Lighting Designer on Black Marrow.