Lighting hire / Theatre
Lighting hire for theatre.
Theatre lighting is its own discipline: plots, cue stacks, profile optics and the patience to tech a show properly. Krank'd designs, supplies and operates lighting for stage productions, dance and orchestral work across Brisbane and the Gold Coast, from the Concert Hall at QPAC and the Brisbane Powerhouse to HOTA.
Get a quote →Profiles, cues and a proper tech
ETC profile and conventional optics, console choices that suit a cue-heavy show, and operators who understand a tech week. We build the rig around the plot, not the other way around. Dry hire it to your production team, or take our supply and operate package with a designer and a board operator.
Brisbane: QPAC and the Powerhouse
The Concert Hall at QPAC is a room we know. Queensland Theatre launched its 2025 season there with our design and our operator. At the Brisbane Powerhouse, our lighting designer Panda designed Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers and we supplied the rig. Out in Northgate, Australasian Dance Collective's Relic took its audience through three staging zones of the UAP Foundry, on lighting we supplied.
The Gold Coast, and further afield
At HOTA, La Clique's 20th anniversary season was the first time the Outdoor Stage closed into a black box for a show in the round. We hung a circular truss over the performers and ran festoon out to the entrance. At The Station on the Sunshine Coast, Panda designed We Will Rock You with Marissa Hilliar as associate, and we ran the show. In Coffs Harbour we supplied the rig for Naidu Performing Arts' Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Orchestras and opera
For QSO's Art of the Score: The Music of Hans Zimmer at QPAC, Panda designed a sweeping chevron of moving lights above the orchestra. When Circa put Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring on stage with QSO, we designed the lighting and handled the technical side. Straight from the Strait, from Opera Queensland and the Yumpla Nerkep Foundation at QPAC, ran on a rig we supplied and operated to Jason Glenlight's design.
Recent work
A selection of events we have brought to life
Gear for the job
Every fixture on this page comes out of our own rental stock
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Frequently asked questions
The things clients ask us before they book
- Do you supply lighting designers and operators for theatre?
- Yes. Krank'd can provide lighting design, programming and a board operator for the season, or dry-hire the rig to your production team.
- What control consoles do you hire for theatre productions?
- We hire a range of consoles suited to cue-based theatre work, including ETC and grandMA platforms, matched to the scale and cue count of the show.
- Have you worked in major Queensland theatre venues?
- Yes. In Brisbane we have designed lighting in the Concert Hall at QPAC for Queensland Theatre and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and at the Brisbane Powerhouse. On the Gold Coast we lit La Clique in the round at HOTA.
- Do you hire theatre lighting in both Brisbane and the Gold Coast?
- Yes. We dry hire and supply and operate theatre lighting across Brisbane, the Gold Coast and South East Queensland from our warehouse in Arundel, and have supplied rigs as far as the Sunshine Coast and Coffs Harbour.
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