CRAIG WILKINSON

​Video Designer

Craig Wilkinson APDG is an award-winning live performance video designer and the creative director of optikal bloc.
 
His video design work has toured extensively across Australia and internationally to Hong Kong, UK, North America, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.
 
Craig's most recent live performance video design works include the record-breaking stage adaption of Trent Dalton’s novel BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE (Queensland Theatre / Brisbane Festival / QPAC), LET’S BE FRIENDS FUREVER (The Good Room / Brisbane Festival / HOTA), SHAUN THE SHEEP’S CIRCUS SHOW (Circa / Aardman Animation / QPAC), the critically acclaimed FANTASTIC MR FOX (Shake & Stir Theatre Co / QPAC),  TAP DOGS (Broadway Entertainment Group) and the Australian and New Zealand tour of BAT OF HELL: THE MUSICAL (TEG DAINTY) as Australian Associate Video Designer.
 
Other video design highlights include: FIRST CASUALTY, THE MOUNTAINTOP, GASP! (Queensland Theatre); FOURTHCOMING, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, GREEN DAY’S AMERICAN IDIOT, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, 1984 (Shake & Stir Theatre Co); THE LITTLE MERMAID, MY BRILLIANT CAREER (Queensland Ballet); CRUEL INTENTIONS: THE 90S MUSICAL (David Venn Enterprises); THE WIZARD OF OZ, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Prospero Arts / QPAC); TAP DOGS (Broadway Entertainment Group); AVOIDABLE PERILS (Counterpilot); I’VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK YOU (The Good Room / Brisbane Festival); PRIZE FIGHTER, PALE BLUE DOT (La Boite Theatre); ONE THE BEAR (Black Honey Company / La Boite Theatre / Campbelltown Arts Centre); SNAPSHOT (Polytoxic); FRANK & FEARLESS, THE NIGHT PARROT, HELP IS ON IT’S WAY, VOICES OF REMEMBRANCE, ONE HUNDRED AND ONE YEARS (Queensland Music Festival); SEVEN SISTERS SONGLINE (HHO Events for the Canberra Centenary); TERROR AUSTRALIS (Leah Shelton); VIVA SPECTACULAR, CYBER ILLUSION SPECTACULAR (Aerial Angels Australia / Ocean Park Hong Kong).
 
Craig is an accredited member of the Australian Production Design Guild, a seasonal lecturer in Live Performance Video Design at the Queensland University of Technology since 2015 and was a recipient of a Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor’s Creative Fellowship in 2022.
 
As a video producer, Craig has created video marketing campaigns for companies such as Sydney Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre, shake & stir theatre co, La Boite Theatre and Brisbane Festival.
 
Craigs work has been recognised with Australian Production Design Guild ─ Video Design for a Live Performance or Event Award for BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and AVOIDABLE PERILS; Matilda Award ─ Video Design for BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE,  FANTASTIC MR FOX and A CHRISTMAS CAROL; Matilda Award ─ Gold Matilda, Body of Work PALE BLUE DOT, THE MOUNTAINTOP, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, GASP!, 1984; Adelaide Fringe’s John Chataway Innovation Award TERROR AUSTRALIS.
 
See more of Craig’s work at optikalbloc.com.au
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