Morgan Moroney

Morgan Moroney is an award-winning lighting and video designer for theatre, opera, dance and installation. Growing up on Kaurna land, he currently lives and works primarily on Gadigal land. Morgan brings a distinct multidisciplinary approach to his creative practice, with a particular fascination for integrated-media live performance.

Morgan’s work includes: as Lighting Designer: DIDO & AENEAS, MADE MAID BOSS (Pinchgut Opera), AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, DRIVE YOUR PLOW, KING LEAR, NAYIKA: A DANCING GIRL and SONG OF FIRST DESIRE (Belvoir), LA BOHÈME, THE BARBER OF SEVILLE National Tour (Opera Australia), INFERNO (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra), LACUNA (Griffin Lookout), TURN OF THE SCREW (Hayes Theatre Co), NGAIIRE’S PAIA (VIVID Sydney & WOMADelaide), FLY GIRL, THE QUEEN’S NANNY (Ensemble), SAPLINGS (ATYP); as Video Designer: THE FIRST MURDER (Pinchgut Opera), APHRODITE (Sydney Chamber Opera), THE UNFRIEND (Sydney Theatre Company); as Lighting and Video Designer: ALL ABOUT EVE (Malthouse), COLLAPSIBLE (Essential Workers), which he also co-directed.

Morgan is a NIDA graduate. In 2025, he was awarded the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Emerging Artist Grant and Freddie J Gibson Fellowship to travel to London with Nick Schlieper as Australian Associate Lighting Designer for Kip Williams’ DRACULA on the West End. Additionally, Morgan has received the 2024 Michael Northen Award for emerging Lighting Designers, administered by the Association for Lighting Production and Design in the UK, 2023 Sydney Theatre Award in Best Independent Lighting Design, NIDA X Storytelling Futures Grant and APDG Award in Lighting Design, and 2020 APDG Emerging Designer for Live Performance. Morgan is one half of independent theatre contingent Essential Workers.

Bio updated September 2026