Verity Hampson

Verity Hampson is a lighting and projection designer for theatre, dance, opera, film and television. Verity has worked with many of Australia’s leading directors and choreographers including Judy Davis, Jessica Arthur, Shari Sebbens, Leticia Caceres, Lee Lewis, Imara Savage, Sarah Goodes, Anne Louise Sarks, Anthea Williams, Gale Edwards, Kate Champion, Meryl Tankard, Stuart Maunder, Declan Greene, Sam Strong and Eamon Flack. Since graduating from NIDA, Verity has forged a formidable career, designing over 130 productions including the multiple award-winning productions: The Drover’s Wife and Faith Healer (Belvoir); The Bleeding Tree (Griffin); After Dinner and Machinal (Sydney Theatre Company); The Boys and The Floating World (Griffin); and Helpmann Award nominated productions of Fly Away Peter (Sydney Chamber Opera) and Fly (Token Events) national tour. Verity is the winner of three Sydney Theatre Awards and a Green Room Award for Best Mainstage Lighting Design, including for Blackie Blackie Brown (Sydney Theatre Company/ Malthouse Theatre) and for Machinal (Sydney Theatre Company). She won the APDG Award for Best Lighting Design for Death Of A Salesman (Queensland Theatre). She received an Australian Production Design Guild Award nomination for Best Lighting Design for The Drover’s Wife (Belvoir); a co-nomination for Best Mainstage Design for Blackie Blackie Brown; four Green Room Award nominations and a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for Titus Andronicus (Bell Shakespeare). Verity was nominated for a 2020 Green Room Award for her design for Wake In Fright (Malthouse). Verity won the Mike Walsh Fellowship which took her to Broadway to work with projection designers 59 Productions.