Hello & Welcome!
I am a Naarm (Melbourne) based Lighting Designer and Theatre Maker, and I’ve been working in the arts for the last 25 years (give or take). I’m also the Business Development Manager at LSC – Lighting Systems Control Pty Ltd for Avolites. 🥳
I am a lover of the arts, a champion of women (especially as leaders in the community), an advocate for positive health and wellbeing in the industry.
I was the Resident Lighting Designer and ensemble member at Red Stitch Actors Theatre for seven years and another two years as a guest designer.
I was one of the 2018/19 MTC Women in Theatre participants, and the Associate Lighting Designer for ‘Shakespeare In Love’ working with Matt Scott and Melbourne Theatre Company.
I have been looking at ways that I can be a better designer and a better human. I have been reading, listen & learning about how the Arts industry needs to move forward to remain sustainable and viable. And as part of this learning I make the following pledge…
I pledge to create an anti-racist and decolonised Australian Theatre industry. I promise to educate myself and others, removing the pressure from my BIPOC peers. I promise to add my voice to essential conversations surrounding racism, difficult or not. I promise to advocate for BIPOC leaders and amplify voices of colour. I promise to listen up, show up and speak up when I witness injustice. I promise to hold accountable the companies who are complicit in the marginalisation of BIPOC artists. I promise to apply this pledge to diversity in its entirety including but not limited to disabilities (visible and invisible), low socioeconomic backgrounds, body diversity, transgender gender diverse identifying artists. I promise to be a lifelong active ally. My pledge does not stop here, hold me accountable.
Clare Springett
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