Bio

Tim Hope - Lighting & Video Designer

Tim Hope is a lighting and video designer working across theatre, live events, and education. With a career spanning both education and professional productions throughout Australia. Tim is passionate about nurturing emerging talent and believes strongly in the power of theatre education. Much of his work has been with schools and youth companies, where he finds immense satisfaction in introducing student performers and crew to contemporary professional theatre practice and help them realise ambitious productions at professional production standards.

In addition to lighting, his multidisciplinary approach draws on skills in automation, illustration, animation, and cinematography. Tim is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of lighting and video design, continually exploring new technologies and techniques to enhance storytelling on stage and fostering the development of future generations of theatre-makers in Australia.

CV

Year Production Company Role Director
2025 The Invincibles Ascham School Lighting Designer Jessy Heath
2025 Netball the Musical Sydney Conservatorium of Music @ The Footbridge Theatre Lighting and Video Designer Narelle Yeo
2025 Lord of the Flies SCEGGS Darlinghurst Lighting Designer Peter Ayers
2025 Nice Work If You Can Get It Kambala School Lighting Designer Lisa Moir
2025 Flora the Red Menace Sydney Conservatorium of Music @ The Footbridge Theatre Lighting Designer Jason Langley
2025 Mamma Mia! Ascham School Lighting Designer Lynda O'Brien
2024 The Eternal Quest to Make Yourself Happy or Die Trying Studio Q - Originate Lighting Designer Shy Magsalin
2024 Winter Cabaret: Love That for You The Hayes Theatre Lighting Designer
2024 Nell Gwynne SCEGGS Darlinghurst Lighting Designer Peter Ayers
2024 The Three Musketeers Ascham School @ The Eternity Theatre Lighting Designer Damien Ryan
2024 Fuccbois: Live in Concert Long Con @ The Old Fitz Lighting and Video Designer Jessica Fallico
2024 Champions Little Goat Arts @ The Old Fitz Lighting and Video Designer Bali Padda
2024 The Hello Girls Heart Strings Theatre Co. @ The Hayes Theatre Lighting Designer Jason Langley
2023 The Face of Jizo The Old Fitz Ass. Lighting Designer David Lynch
2023 The Government Inspector Fingerless Theatre @ Flow Studios Lighting Designer Alex Kendall Robson
2023 This Changes Everything Ascham School Lighting Designer Jessy Heath
2023 The Village Studio Q @ The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Lighting Designer Bali Padda
2023 The Influencers SCEGGS Darlinghurst Lighting and Sound Designer Romy Bartz & Poppy Lynch
2023 Ladies in Black SCEGGS Darlinghurst @ The Rebel Theatre Lighting Designer Aaron Farley
2023 Clambake Duti Studios @ 107 Projects Lighting Designer Natasha Sturgis
2023 The Drowsy Chaperone Ascham School Lighting Designer Lynda O'Brien
2023 Twelfth Night Fingerless Theatre @ Flow Studios Lighting Designer Alex Kendall Robson
2022 Pretty Strange SCEGGS Darlinghurst Video Designer Romy Bartz
2017 Follies Ascham School Lighting Designer Kelly Young
2016 History of Falling Things Ensemble Theatre Video Designer Nicole Buffoni
2016 Tribes Ensemble Theatre Video Designer Susanna Dowling
2016 A Man with Five Children Darlinghurst Theatre Company Video Designer Anthony Skuse
2016 Coram Boy Ascham School Video & Lighting Designer Peter Mussared
2015 Into the Woods Ascham School Video Designer, Ass. Lighting Designer Peter Mussared
2014 Playing Rock Hudson The Old Fitz Video Designer Jason Langley & Cameron Lukey
2013 Chekhov in Hell The Australian Academy of Dramatic Arts Video Designer Jason Langley