Originally from Boorloo, Sam is a Naarm based set and costume designer. Working at the intersection of form, space and light, Sam enjoys theatre most when it augments the fabric of space and time to create alternate realities and conceptual worlds through succinct, bold and transformative design.

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He is a graduate of the Master of Design for Performance from the Victorian College of the Arts and holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design (Architecture) from the University of Western Australia. Sam was nominated for Outstanding Stage Design at the 2025 Performing Arts WA Awards for his set design for Logue Lake. Sam was also the 2022 Graduate Designer for Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre and received the 2019 Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship for excellence while studying at the VCA.

 

UPCOMING PROJECTS

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Rumbleskin - Set & costume design, Dirty Pennies Theatre Project / 45downstairs. Opening July 2025.

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PAST PROJECTS

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Logue Lake - Set & costume design, Perth Festival, 2024.

2025 Performing Arts WA Awards:

Winner - Best Mainstage Production (Theatre)

Winner - Outstanding Direction (Theatre)
Winner - Outstanding New Work (Theatre)

Winner - Outstanding Ensemble (Theatre)

Nominated - Outstanding Stage Design

Nominated - Outstanding Lighting Design

Nominated - Outstanding Performer in a Leading Role (Theatre) - Lila McGuire 
Nominated - Outstanding Contemporary or Experimental Performance

 

Yahoos Descent - Production design & creative development, Furball Theatre / La Mama Exploratons, 2024.

 

Wolf Play - Set & costume design, dir. Isabella Vadivaloo, Red Stitch, 2023.

 

Prophet - Set & costume design, Theatre Works, 2023.

 

All The Fraudulent Horse Girls - Set & costume design, LazyYarns /Melbourne Fringe, 2023.

 

Darling Boy - Lighting design, Edinburgh Fringe/Sydney World Pride, 2023.

 

Unprecedented - Associate designer to Sophie Woodward, HotHouse Theatre, 2023.

 

A Simple Act of Kindness - Asst. designer to Jacob Battista & Sophie Woodward, Dir. Peter Houghton, Red Stitch, 2022.

 

Bed & Breakfast - Set & costume design, dir. Tom Healey, Fairly Lucid Productions, 2022.

 

Caught - Asst. lighting designer to Lisa Mibus, Red Stitch, 2022.

 

Dough! - Set & costume design, Stage Mom/Melbourne Fringe, 2022.

 

HYDRA - Lighting intern to Amelia Lever-Davidson, dir. Bridget Balodis, Double Water Sign / Darebin Arts, 2021.

 

Earthquakes in London - Set design, Dir. Sarah Goodes, VCA Acting Company, 2020.

 

ABYSS - Production design, dir. Tom Royce-Hampton, VCA, 2020

 

On The Town - Associate lighting design, dir. Adam Mitchell, VCA Music Theatre Company, 2019.

 

Lecture on Nothing - Set construction, Robert Wilson, Arts Centre Melbourne 2019.

 

SWAG - Co-design, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Australian Students Exhibition, 2019.