VERONIQUE BENETT

Lighting Designer / Designer
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Veronique is a lighting, set and costume designer.  In 2019, Veronique completed a Master of Fine Art (Design for Performance) majoring in lighting. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Technical Theatre and Stage Management) from NIDA. 

As a lighting designer, Veronique’s credits include: HAPPY DAYS (Red Line Productions); SACRE (Circa); BANGING DENMARK (Sydney Theatre Company); WOLVES (Belvoir); THE SMALLEST HOUR (Griffin Theatre); JOHN (Outhouse Theatre Co.); THE LIFE OF US (Hayes Theatre); NOSFERATU (Old 505); STUPID FUCKING BIRD (New Theatre); HAPPY DAYS, CHORUS, ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE, PERMISSION TO SPIN, HOWIE THE ROOKIE (Old Fitz); A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING (KXT).

Veronique designed costumes for MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE (Seymour Centre/Sydney Festival); set and lighting design for EXIT THE KING (Red Line Productions) and ULSTER AMERICAN (Outhouse Theatre Co); costume design for AS YOU LIKE IT (Sport for Jove); set and costume design for OUR BLOOD RUNS IN THE STREET (Red Line Productions); set and lighting for VENUS IN FUR, costume and lighting design for WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (NIDA). 
 
Veronique’s associate lighting designer credits include: CURSED! designed by Chloe Oglvie (Belvoir); NO PAY? NO WAY! designed by Paul Jackson (Sydney Theatre Company); PRIMA FACIE designed by Trent Suidgeest (Griffin Theatre); CRY-BABY directed and designed by Alexander Berlage (Hayes Theatre Co); and MACBETH, THE TEMPEST and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM for Sport for Jove.  

Associate set and costume designer roles include: JOHN and GLORIA designed by Jeremy Allen for Outhouse Theatre Co; and design associate for THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE designed by Renée Mulder for Sydney Theatre Company.  
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She is currently twice nominated for Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Stage Design of an Independent Production for EXIT THE KING and ULSTER AMERICAN; and nominated for Best Lighting Design of an Independent Production for HAPPY DAYS; she was nominated for Best Lighting Design of an Independent Production for JOHN.