Paul Jackson

Paul Jackson (he/him) is an award-winning lighting designer who works across Australia and internationally.

Malthouse Theatre: Lighting Designer for This Is Living, Nosferatu, Anna K, The Return, Cloudstreet, Blasted, Melancholia, Bliss, The Testament of Mary, Black Rider, Away, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Meow Meow’s The Little Mermaid and Solaris (with Lyric Hammersmith London / Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); and Set & Lighting Designer for Monsters.  

Other Theatre: Lighting Designer for Sunday, Oil, Do Not Go Gentle, Lifespan of a Fact, Death of a Salesman and No Pay? No Way! (Sydney Theatre Company); Otto, Stop Girl, Escaped Alone and Galileo (Belvoir); Escaped Alone and What If If Only, Sunday and Cyrano (Melbourne Theatre Company).

Paul has won a Helpmann Award, two Sydney Theatre Awards, seven Green Room Awards, a Critics’ Award for Theatre in Scotland, and five Australian Production Design Guild Awards. In addition, he has also received a further four Helpmann Award nominations, thirty-two Green Room Award nominations, five APDG nominations and four Sydney Theatre nominations. He is a Churchill Fellow and an Australia Council Fellow.

Paul is accredited with the Australian Production Design Guild.