Verity Hampson is a lighting and projection designer for theatre, dance, opera, film and television. Since graduating from NIDA, Verity has forged a formidable career, designing over 130 productions including multiple award-winning productions.

A selection of Verity’s lighting designs for theatre include: City of Gold (Sydney Theatre Company/Black Swan), Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, Grand Horizons, 7 Stages of Grieving, Home, I’m Darling, Blackie Blackie Brown, Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark, Machinal, Little Mercy (Sydney Theatre Company); Wake in Fright (Malthouse); Death of a Salesman (Queensland Theatre); Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Bell Shakespeare); Winyanboga Yurringa, An Enemy of the People, Sami in Paradise, Faith Healer, Ivanov, The Blind Giant is Dancing, The Drover’s Wife (Belvoir); Lizzie (Hayes); Pony, Ghosting the Party, Orange Thrower, Dogged, Superheroes, A Strategic Plan, Turquoise Elephant, The Bleeding Tree, Music, Beached, The Bull, The Moon and the Coronet of Stars, The Floating World, The Boys, The New Electric Ballroom, Crestfallen (Griffin); Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam, Flight Paths (NTOP/Belvoir); The One, A Doll’s House, Baby Doll, Fully Committed (Ensemble); Dungarri Nya Nya (Dancenorth).

For opera Verity’s work includes: Fly Away Peter and In The Penal Colony (Sydney Chamber Opera); Orpheus and Eurydice at the Art Gallery of NSW (Spectrum Now Festival); Daisy Bates At Ooldea, Orfeo Ed Euridice, King Arthur (Sydney Conservatorium); Sopranos, The Show Girls Of Opera (Cre8ion).  

For television, Verity was lighting director for the ABC’s Live at the Basement and The Roast; and The Crown Prince Awards for SBS. 

Verity is a recipient of the Mike Walsh Fellowship; three Sydney Theatre Awards; a Green Room Award; and an APDG Award for Best Lighting Design.