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Alexander Berlage

Director + Lighting Designer

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Red Line Productions at the Old Fitz

Old Fitz Theatre, Sydney

Written by Tennessee Williams

Direction by Alexander Berlage

Set Design by Emma White

Costume Design by Alesia Jelbart

Lighting Design by Phoebe Pilcher

Sound Design and Composition by Zac Saric

Assistant Direction by Shannon Dooley

Production Photography by Phil Erbacher

American Psycho 2021

BB Arts & Two Door Productions

Playhouse, Sydney Opera House | June 2021

Direction & Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Associate Direction by Danielle Maas

Choreography by Yvette Lee

Music Direction by Andrew Worboys

Set Design by Isabel Hudson

Costume Design by Mason Browne

Sound Design by Nick Walker

Wig Design by Nick Eynaud

Associate Lighting Design by James Wallis

Associate Choreography by Ryan Gonzalez

Production Photographs by Daniel Boud

New Breed 2022

Sydney Dance Company

Carriageworks, Bay 20

Featuring works from Choreographers:

Jenni Large (S U C K E R)

Sophia Ndaba (The Veil of Separation)

Luke Hayward (The remnants of)

Charmene Yap (Drunk Tank Pink)

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Diary of One Who Disappeared

Sydney Chamber Opera

Sydney Opera House, Joan Sutherland Theatre, September 2020

Direction & Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Music Direction by Jack Symonds

Set & Costume Design by Jeremy Allen

Dramaturgy by Bernadette Fam

Musical Assistance by Huw Belling

Meg Mac x Arias

Letter by Meg Mac

Performance at 2023 Aria Awards

Creative Direction by Alexander Berlage

Lighting Realisation by Tim Snartt

Lucie in the Sky

Australasian Dance Collective

Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane

Choreography by Amy Hollingsworth

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Costume Design by Harriet Oxley

Drone Design & Programming by Verity Studios

Wolf

CIRCA

Chamäleon Theatre, Berlin

Direction & Set Design by Yaron Lifschitz

Costume Design by Libby McDonnell

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Hubris & Humiliation

Sydney Theatre Company

Wharf 1, Sydney

Written by Lewis Treston

Direction by Dean Bryant

Set & Costume Design by Isabel Hudson

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Sound Design & Composition by Matthew Frank

Production Photography by Prudence Upton

Julia

Sydney Theatre Company & Canberra Theatre Centre

Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House

Written by Joanna Murray-Smith

Direction by Sarah Goodes

Set & Costume Design by Renee Mulder

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Sound Design & Composition by Steve Francis

Video Design by Susie Henderson

Production Photography by Prudence Upton

A Brief Nostalgia

Birmingham Royal Ballet
The Hippodrome, Birmingham
Sadlers Wells, London

Choreography by Jack Lister
Set Design by Thomas Mikka
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Original Score by Tom Harrold

Awakening Shadow

Sydney Chamber Opera

Bay 20, Carriageworks, Sydney

Music Direction by Jack Symonds

Direction by Imara Savage

Set & Costume Design by Elizabeth Gadsby

Video Design by Mike Daly

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Associate Lighting Design by Lachlan Hogan

Production Photography by Zan Wimberley

New Breed 2021

Sydney Dance Company

Carriageworks, Bay 20, November 2021

Jasmin Sheppard (Given Unto Thee)

Lilian Steiner (Springtime Again)

Jacopo Grabar (Stereotipo)

Rhiannon Newton (The Gift of a Warning)

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Costume Design by Alesia Jelbert

American Psycho 2019

BB Arts & Two Door Productions
Hayes Theatre | May 2019

Direction & Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Associate Direction by Danielle Maas
Choreography by Yvette Lee
Music Direction by Andrew Worboys
Set Design by Isabel Hudson
Costume Design by Mason Browne
Associate Lighting Design by James Wallis
Sound Design by Nick Walker
Production Photographs by Clare Hawley

New Breed 2020

Sydney Dance Company

Carriageworks, Bay 20, November 2020

Jesse Scales (Inertia)

Chloe Leong (Nostalgia)

Joel Bray (Wagan)

Raghav Handa (Clash of the Titans)

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Costume Design by Alesia Jelbert

RBG: Of Many, One

Sydney Theatre Company

Wharf 1 Theatre, Sydney

Written by Suzie Millar

Direction by Priscilla Jackman

Set & Costume Design by David Fleischer

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Sound Design & Composition by Paul Charlier

Production Photography by Prudence Upton

Let the Right One In

Darlinghurst Theatre Company

Eternity Playhouse | October 2022

Direction by Alexander Berlage

Associate Direction by Cassie Hamilton

Set & Costume Design by Isabel Hudson

Lighting Design by Trent Suidgeest

Composition by James Brown

Sound Design by Daniel Herton

Fight Choreography by Tim Dashwood

Intimacy Co-ordination by Bailey Turner

Young Frankenstein

Hayes Theatre Co

Hayes Theatre | February 2021

Direction by Alexander Berlage

Musical Direction by Andrew Worboys

Choreography by Yvette Lee

Set Design by Isabel Hudson

Costume Design by Mason Browne

Lighting Design by Trent Suidgeest

Sound Design byNick Walker

Directorial Assistant Bernadette Fam

Design Assistant Keerthi Subramanyam

Additional Orchestrations by Cypress Bartlett

Production Photographs by

Antarctica

Sydney Chamber Opera, Holland Festival & Asko|Schonberg

Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam

Composition by Mary Finsterer

Libretto by Tom Wright

Conducted by Jack Symonds

Direction by Imara Savage

Set & Costume Design by Elizabeth Gadsby

Video by Mike Daly

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Mr Burns, a post-electric play

National Institute of Dramatic Art

Parade Playhouse, Sydney, November, 2021

By Anne Washburn

Score by Michael Friedman

Lyrics by Anne Washburn

Directed by Alexander Berlage

Musical Direction by Andrew Worboys

Set and costume design by Isabel Hudson

Lighting design by Isaac Barron

Sound design by Kaitlyn Crocker

Duckpond

CIRCA

QPAC, Brisbane

Direction & Set Design by Yaron Lifschitz

Costume Design by Libby McDonnell

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Hand to God

Red Line Productions at the Old Fitz

Old Fitz Theatre, Sydney

Written by Robert Askins

Direction by Alexander Berlage

Costume Design & Co-Set Design by Emma White

Co-Set Design by Jeremy Allen

Lighting Design by Phoebe Pilcher

Sound Design by Daniel Herton

Production Photography by Robert Catto

Breaking Glass

Sydney Chamber Opera

Bay 20, Carriageworks

Conducted by Jack Symonds

Direction by Danielle Maas & Clemence Williams

Set & Costume Design by Charles Davis

Video Design by David Bergman

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Production Photography by David Bergman & Daniel Boud

Cry-Baby

LPD Productions
Hayes Theatre | July 2018

Direction & Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Choreography by Cameron Mitchell
Music Direction by Nicholas Griffin
Set Design by Isabel Hudson
Costume Design by Mason Browne
Associate Lighting Design by Veronique Bennett
Sound Design by Tegan Nicholls

Assistant Direction by Ruby O'Kelly
Production Photographs by Robert Catto

New Breed 2019

Sydney Dance Company

Carriageworks, Bay 20

Featuring works from Choreographers:

Davide Di Giovanni (In Walked Bud)

Ariella Casu (Arise)

Lauren Langlois (Creeper)

Josh Mu (ZERO)

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Orpheus & Eurydice

Opera Queensland & Circa

Playhouse, QPAC | October 2019

Direction & Set Design by Yaron Lifschitz

Costume Design by Libby McDonnell

Lighting Design by Alex Berlage

Video Design by Boris Bagattini

Future Remains

Sydney Chamber Opera & Sydney Festival

Carriageworks, Bay 20, January 2021

Direction & Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Music Direction by Jack Symonds

Set & Costume Design by Jeremy Allen

Dramaturgy by Bernadette Fam

New Breed 2023

Sydney Dance Company

Carriageworks, Bay 20

Featuring works by Choreographers:

Riley Fitzgerald (Everyb0dy’s g0t a b0mb) 

Eliza Cooper (Revenge Tales and Romance) 

Tra Mi Dinh (Somewhere between ten and fourteen) 

Beau Dean Riley Smith (Gubba)

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Sydney Theatre Buses

Ban Shakespeare, An Assorted Few & Green Door

Co-created by Alexander Berlage & Antoinette Barbouttis

A Bus, Sydney, August 2020

Home Invasion

An Assorted Few
Old 505 Theatre, Newtown | March 2018

Direction & Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Play by Christopher Bryant
Set Design by Jeremy Allen
Costume Design by Ellen Stanistreet
Sound Design by Ben Pierpoint
Production Photographs by Robert Catto

Shape of the Earth

Sydney Chamber Opera
Carriageworks, Bay 20, Sydney | September 2018

Direction & Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Score by Jack Symonds
Libretto by Pierce Wilcox
Performance by Mitch Reily
Sound Design by Benjamin Carey
Production Photographs by Zan Wimberley

PPY 2021

Sydney Dance Company

Carriageworks, Bay 20, December 2021

Featuring works from Choreographers:

James Vu Anh Pham (Eden)

James Batchelor (Occasions)

Omer Backley-Astrachan (Folk)

Gabrielle Nankivell (Modern Analogue)

Rafael Bonachela (Frame of Mind)

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Costume Design by Annie Robinson

Production Photography by Daniel Boud

there will be a climax

Red Line Productions in partnership with NIDA
The Old Fitzroy Theatre, January 2018

Direction, Lighting Design & Co-creation by Alexander Berlage
Dramaturgy & Co-creation by Alexander Lee-Rekers
Set & Costume Design by Nick Fry
Sound Design by Katelyn Shaw
Original Lighting Design by Cecilia Lockhart Nelson
Production Photographs by Robert Catto

PPY 2015

Sydney Dance Company
Carriageworks, Bay 20

Featuring works from Choreographers:
Ian RT Colless (From The Feet Up)
Lisa Griffiths (First Form)
Rafael Bonachela (2 One Another)
Iratxe Ansa (Lost Body)
Sara Black (Taction)
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Production Photography by Gez Mansfield

Lord of the Flies

Sydney Theatre Company
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney

By William Golding & Adapted to the stage by Nigel Williams
Directed by Kip Williams
Set by Elizabeth Gadsby
Costume by Marg Howell
Lighting by Alexander Berlage
Production Photographs by Zan Wimberly

Nosferatutu

Virginia Hyam Productions and Griffin Independent
SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney 2017

Direction by Sheridan Harbridge
Set & Costume Design by Ashisha Cunningham
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Musical Direction by Steven Kreamer

4:48 Psychosis

Workhorse Theatre Company in association with Red Line Productions
The Old Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney

Written by Sarah Kane
Direction by Anthony Skuse
Set & Costume Design by Jeremy Allen
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Sound Design by Benjamin Freeman

New Breed 2018

Sydney Dance Company
Carriageworks, Bay 20

Featuring works from Choreographers:
Katina Olsen (Mother's Cry)
Holly Doyle (Out, Damned Spot!)
Vanessa Duffy (Telopea)
Prue Lang (Towards Innumerable Futures)
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

La Passion de Simone

Sydney Chamber Opera & Sydney Festival
Bay 17, Carriageworks

Composition by Kaija Saariaho
Libretto by Amin Malouf
Conducted by Jack Symonds
Direction by Imara Savage
Set & Costume Design by Elizabeth Gadsby
Video by Mike Daly
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Production Photography by Lisa Tomasetti

Lethal Indifference

Sydney Theatre Company
Wharf One Theatre, Sydney

Written by Anna Barnes
Directed by Jessica Arthur
Set & Costume Design by Mel Page
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Sound Design by Clemence Williams
Production Photography by Prudence Upton

Cloud Nine

Sydney Theatre Company
Wharf One Theatre, Sydney

Written by Caryl Churchill
Direction by Kip Williams
Set & Costume Design by Elizabeth Gadsby
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Sound Design by Nate Edmondson
Original Composition by Chris Williams
Production Photography by Daniel Boud

Gloria

Outhouse Theatre Co
Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre | June 2019

Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Direction & Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Set & Costume Design by Jeremy Allen
Associate Design by Veronique Bennett
Sound Design by Benjamin Pierpoint
Assistant Direction by Mikala Westall
Production Photography by Clare Hawley

Antigone

National Institute of Dramatic Art
Parade Space

Written By Sophocles
Translated by Robert Bagg
Direction by Alastair Clark
Set & Costume Design by Jeremy Allen
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Victory over the Sun

Sydney Chamber Opera & The 20th Biennale of Sydney
Cockatoo Island, March 2016

Concept & Design by Justene Williams
Music by Huw Belling (after Mikhail Matyushin)
Text & Direction by Pierce Wilcox (after Aleksei Kruchonykh)
Musical Direction by Jack Symonds
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Dance Nation

State Theatre of South Australia & Belvoir

Scott Theatre, Adelaide, February 2020

Direction by Imara Savage

Play by Clare Barron

Set & Costume Design by Jonathan Oxlade

Choreography Larissa McGowan

Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

Composition by Luke Smiles

Sound Design by Andrew Howard

Photography by Chris Herzfeld

Klutz

National Institute of Dramatic Art
Parade Space

Written by Benjamin Schostakowski
Direction by Benjamin Schostakowski
Set & Costume Design by Dann Barber & Emma Vine
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage

High Fidelity

Highway Run Productions and Neil Gooding Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co
Hayes Theatre Co, Sydney

Direction by Neil Gooding
Choreography by Cameron Mitchell
Musical Direction by Andrew Worboys
Set & Costume Design by Lauren Peters
Lighting Design by Alex Berlage
Sound Design by Nick Walker

Ironbound

An Assorted Few
KXT Bakehouse

Written by Martyna Majok
Direction by Alastair Clark
Set Design by Jeremy Allen
Costume Design by Maya Keys
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Sound Design by Benjamin Freeman
Associate Lighting Design by Kelsey Lee

Moth

Millstone Productions
Australian Theatre for Young People, Sydney 2017

Written by Declan Greene
Direction by Rachel Chant
Set & Costume Design by Tyler Hawkins
Lighting Design by Alexander Berlage
Animation by Todd Fuller
Origional Composition by Chrysoulla Markoulli
Sound Design by Tom Hogan
Assistant Direction by Joseph Brown
Production Photography by Kate Cornish

The Sugar Syndrome

The Kings Collective

Sydney, 2014

Written by Lucy Prebble
Direction by Jessica Arthur
Lighting & Set Design by Alexander Berlage
Set & Costume Design by Madeline Hoy
Production Photography by Isabella Andronos

A Streetcar Named Desire

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American Psycho 2021

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New Breed 2022

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Diary of One Who Disappeared

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Lucie in the Sky

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Wolf

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Hubris & Humiliation

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Julia

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A Brief Nostalgia

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Awakening Shadow

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New Breed 2021

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American Psycho 2019

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New Breed 2020

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RBG: Of Many, One

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Let the Right One In

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Young Frankenstein

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Antarctica

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Mr Burns, a post-electric play

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Duckpond

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Hand to God

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Breaking Glass

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Cry-Baby

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New Breed 2019

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Orpheus & Eurydice

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Future Remains

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New Breed 2023

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Sydney Theatre Buses

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Home Invasion

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Shape of the Earth

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PPY 2021

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there will be a climax

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PPY 2015

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Lord of the Flies

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Nosferatutu

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4:48 Psychosis

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New Breed 2018

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La Passion de Simone

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Lethal Indifference

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Cloud Nine

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Gloria

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Antigone

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Victory over the Sun

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Dance Nation

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Klutz

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High Fidelity

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Ironbound

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Moth

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The Sugar Syndrome

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