Viv Hargreaves (they/them) is a set and lighting designer based in Naarm/Melbourne. They are passionate about telling compelling new stories with live performance and they love to explore the relationship between the creative and the technical. Viv prides themselves on strong dramaturgy for considered, imaginative design. They graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2024 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production).

Credits

2026

Set and Lighting Designer, Waiting for Godot, dir. Janice Muller | The Ravens Theatre Co | Phee Broadway Theatre
Set and Lighting Designer, Summer at Suspended Stone Camp, dir. Carole Patullo | Dreamhouse Theatre Co | Flinders Civic Hall
Lighting Designer, MR BIG aka Tatay, A Transwoman and That Tiring Tune!, dir. Beng Oh | TAYOTAYO Collective | fortyfive downstairs
Lighting Designer, The Importance of Being Earnest, dir. Hayley McNally | Adamson Theatre Co. | Wesley College
Lighting Designer, Picture This, dir. Luce Wirthersohn | Forget Me Not Theatre Co. | All Saints Church, Rosebud

2025

Assistant Lighting Designer, Othello, dir. Tanya Gerstle | Melbourne Shakespeare Co | fortyfive downstairs
Lighting Designer, Where in the World is Frank Sparrow?, dir. Carole Patullo | Dreamhouse Theatre Co | The Broadway, Rosebud
Lighting Designer, The Glass Menagerie, dir. Nicholas R. & Nadia S.R | Running With Scissors | Meat Market Stables
Set Designer, Soldier Boy, dir. Beng Oh | Theatre Works St Kilda
Lighting Designer, The Boys, dir. Tess Walsh | Sevenfold Theatre Co | Bluestone Church Arts Space
Set Designer, Storked, dir. Maude Davey | Theatre Works St Kilda
Lighting Designer, Rope, dir. Mark Yeates | 23rd Theatre Co | Irene Mitchell Studio, St Martin’s Youth Arts Centre

2024

Set Designer, Hibernation, dir. Maude Davey | Studio 4, VCA
Lighting Designer, Ocean, An Arrangement | Martyn Myer Arena, VCA
Lighting Design Internship with Jenny Hector on Bad Boy | fortyfivedownstairs
Set and Costume Internship with Dale Ferguson on MTC’s 37 | The Sumner
Lighting Designer, As Things Go | Melbourne Dance Centre

2023

Set and Lighting Designer, ANGELFOOD | Martyn Myer Arena
Assistant Set Designer, Borneo, dir. Tony Nikolakopoulos | Grant St Theatre, VCA
Lighting Designer, Command Shift Break | Union Theatre, Parkville, Mudfest