JENNY HECTOR
Jenny Hector first worked with GUTS in 2017 lighting The Perception Experiment, returning in 2018 to design lights for The Lost Dance Project and then again in 2021-21 for Ash Musk’s SUB. She travelled with the company as Production Manager for their remounts of TPE for 2019 Dance Massive and Festival Cultural de Mayo in Guadalajara, Mexico and their 2025 national tour of SUB.
Her recent credits include Jada Alberts Black Light for Malthouse Theatre, The Australian Ballet Storytime: Nutcracker, Chawati Sugiarto, Aviva Endean and Matthais Schack-Arnott Lung Swara, TasDance Beacon, Stompin Youth Dance Company Strangers Make the World Together, and Ilbijerri Theatre Company’s Big Name, No Blankets. Other highlights include Hersch and Thoms Please Stand, Aphids Class Act, Chunky Move’s Rewards for the Tribe, Kamila Andini’s The Seen and The Unseen for Asia TOPA (Jakarta, Singapore and Melbourne), Sydney Chamber Opera’s The Howling Girls for Tokyo Festival World Competition 2019, and X-Risk, Kuopio Finland, collaborating with Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey, Pekka Mäkinen, and Johanna Tuukkanen.
Her lighting for Wilks, Dee and Cornelius’s RUNT, Fraught Outfit’s Exodus II, Prue Lang’s Stellar, Sandra Parker’s Out of Light received Green Room nominations for best lighting and Jo Lloyd’s Overture, Jacob Boehme’s Blood on the Dance Floor and Jodee Mundy’s Imagined Touch received Green Room Awards for Best Production, and Monica Lim and Monday Meng Wang’s Opera for the Dead Best Experimental Design which Jenny realised both the lighting and set designs for.
Jenny is the recipient of the 2016 Green Room Award for Technical Achievement.