Rachel Burke
Lighting Designer
Rachel designs nationally and internationally with Australia’s leading arts companies and her body of work has been recognised through numerous industry nominations and awards over more than three decades.
Her awards include ten Green Room Awards for Excellence in Lighting Design, numerous IES Victorian & National Awards of Excellence in Architectural Lighting Design and two Helpmann Award nominations in 2005 and 2015.
Rachel is passionate about lighting design for theatre, architecture, visual arts and education and her design work over more than thirty years is driven by a strongly collaborative and dramaturgical approach. Rachel was Lecturer in Lighting (Production) at Victorian College of the Arts and Lecturer for Light in Performance for the Bachelor of Design Degree (Performance) at the University of Melbourne 2017-2019. Recent work includes Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes for Melbourne Theatre Company, the critically lauded production of Yentl for Kadimah Yiddish Theatre, Gene Tree: Listen.Now.Again for St Martins Theatre with the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and Wittenoom and The Amateurs directed by Susie Dee for Red Stitch Actors Theatre.
The Visitors marks Rachel and Richard Roberts eighth production together since 2000 and presents a wonderful opportunity to continue to refine and extend a stage aesthetic and design vocabulary that has consistently received industry and audience acclaim.
