Glenn Hughes

Glenn Hughes

Lighting Design


In a career spanning over 40 years, Glenn Hughes has worked as a Lighting Designer for many companies including the Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland Theatre Companies, Playbox, Malthouse, Victorian Arts Centre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Sydney Opera House, Queensland Ballet, Ballet Theatre of Queensland, Creative Regions, Real TV, QUT, Australasian Dance Collective, Barking Gecko, Jute, Melbourne and Sydney Festivals, La Boite and Bangarra Dance Theatre.

He has toured extensively with Queensland Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre, throughout Australia and internationally and has taught lighting design at WAAPA, RMIT and QUT.
Dance lighting credits include: Australasian Dance Collective’s Three and Echo (2020), Ballet Theatre of Queensland’s Graduation Ball and Cinderella, Queensland Ballet Academy Gala 2019, Essentially Dance 2013-19, QUT Dance Graduation 2017-19, Queensland Ballet’s Swan Lake, Alice in Wonderland, Peer Gynt, 1001 Nights, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Blue Angel Cabaret, Rite of Spring, Mahler’s 10th, Sydney Festival’s Into and Bangarra Dance Theatre’s True Stories.


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