VERONIQUE BENETT

Lighting Designer / Designer
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Veronique is a lighting, set and costume designer.  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: THE JUNGLE AND THE SEA, TELL ME I’M HERE, THE WOLVES (Belvoir); NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1912 (Darlinghurst Theatre Company); THE GREAT DIVIDE (Ensemble); ALICE: MOTHER OF CINEMA, MACHINAL (NIDA); BURN WITCH BURN (Old Fitz); HAPPY DAYS (Red Line Productions); SACRE (Circa); BANGING DENMARK (Sydney Theatre Company); THE SMALLEST HOUR (Griffin Theatre); JOHN (Outhouse Theatre Co.); A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, THE LIFE OF US (Hayes Theatre); THE PLEASURE OF VERSAILLE (Pinchgut Opera); 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 set and lighting for ULSTER AMERICAN, SWITZERLAND, set and costumes for THE MEMORY OF WATER, RHINESTONE REX AND MISS MONICA, A BROADCAST COUP, THE CARETAKER, and A DOLL’S HOUSE (Ensemble); costumes for MUSEUM OF MODERN LOVE (Seymour Centre/Sydney Festival); set and lighting design for EXIT THE KING (Red Line Productions); set and lighting for A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, 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).

She has received four Sydney Theatre Award nominations: for Best Stage Design of an Independent Production for EXIT THE KING and ULSTER AMERICAN; Best Lighting Design of an Independent Production for HAPPY DAYS; and Best Lighting Design of an Independent Production for JOHN.

​Find more of Veronique's work at: veroniquebenettdesigner-lightanddesign.com.au