August
Shearman
Lighting Designer & Maker
August Shearman is a lighting designer and artistic creator with a background in musical theatre performance and an interest in astrophysics. She discovered lighting during her study at the Australian Institute of Music (AIM) in 2014 where she majored in Music Theatre. Since then August has worked as a lighting designer and technician across Sydney and Melbourne, with a focus on community and pro-am theatre.
After moving to Victoria in 2018, August studied lighting design at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), where she gained a deeper understanding of the possibilities of light as an interactive and expressive medium.
August acknowledges they live and work on the lands of Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation.