Gus Papagiannis

Experience

Lir Academy Training

• Stage Management & Technical Theatre - 2026

Productions

• • Production
  • Role
  • Director
• • Love's Labour's Lost
  • Chief Electrician
  • Davey Kelleher
• • Mr. Burns
  • Chief Electrician
  • Daniel Kramer
• • Consent
  • Lighting Programmer
  • Emily Foran
• • Eurydice
  • Lighting Crew
  • Zia Loparic Basbaum
• • The Nest
  • Lighting Crew
  • Friederike Karpf
• • Bent
  • Lighting Crew
  • Connor Mickiewicz
• • Punk Rock
  • Lighting Crew
  • Tom Creed

Other Experience

Chief LX & Associate Lighting Designer / Hyperphysical / John Scott – Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Irish Arts Center NYC

Chief LX & Programmer / The Valley of the Squinting Windows / Michael Scott – Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

Lighting Designer, Programmer & Chief LX / Ham, Sandwiches and Discipline / NAF Dance – Dublin Fringe Festival

Lighting Designer, Programmer & Stage Manager / Tender Mercies / The Viking Theatre & Irish Tour

Programmer / Things Hidden / Javaad Alipoor – Dublin Theatre Festival

Lighting Technician / Find Your Eyes / Benji Reid

Lighting Programmer & Designer / Space Deli / Pay Attention! Productions – Scene + Heard Festival, Smock Alley

Lighting Designer / Jamming High, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Nutcracker, Dear White Brother / Municipal Theatre of Agrinio, Greece

Stage Manager & Lighting Designer / TEDx Agrinio

Camera Operator, Music Composer & Editor / Documentary Projects (Greece)

Lighting Designer / Melina Kana Concert / Music School of Agrinio Productions

Creator & Director / I’m Leaving / Municipal Theatre of Agrinio

Website: www.guspapagiannis.com

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Skills

Lighting & Technical

• Proficient Lighting Programming (ETC, Avolites, Luminex Systems)
• Chief Lighting Electrician on large-scale productions
• Lighting Design & Pixel Programming
• Large-Scale Lighting Network Engineering
• Capture Design, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Photoshop
• QLab Operation & Integration
• Score Reading for Cue Synchronisation
• Moving Light Assistant (MLA)
• Dante Level 2 Certified
• Genie Lift License

Stage & Production

• Assistant / Deputy Stage Management
• Teamwork, Leadership & Communication Skills
• Problem Solving & Initiative under Pressure
• Hand and Machine Sewing Skills
• Collaboration with Creative and Technical Teams

Health & Safety

• Manual Handling Certified
• Work at Height & Harness Training
• AIST StagePass Qualification
• CPR, First Aid & Fire Safety Certified

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