About

Luca Panetta is a freelance lighting designer, video designer and lighting programmer & associate. He won a Profile Award in 2025 for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.

Recent Lighting Design Credits include

Maria de Rudenz (Battersea Arts Centre) for which he won a Profile Award; If Operas 2022, 2023, 2025 Seasons (Multiple Venues); Polko (Paines Plough Roundabout); Edith (The Lowry / Theatr Clwyd); Cendrillon and Albert Herring (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire); Diary of a Somebody (Seven Dials Playhouse) for which he was nominated for an Offie in Lighting Design; The Faction’s Triple Bill of Medea/Worn, Douglass, and Duende (Wilton’s Music Hall, & Stephen Joseph Theatre); A Double Bill of The Wardrobe Ensemble's Education, Education, Education and The Last of the Pelican Daughters directed by Sarah Frankcom (ArtsEd ALWF Theatre)

Credits as Associate Lighting Designer and LX Programmer include:

Associate : Pride (National Theatre); A Christmas Carol / Mary Page Marlowe (The Old Vic - ITR); Barcelona (West End); Why Am I So Single? (West End); The Merchant of Venice 1936 (RSC, & UK Tour); Macbeth (Liverpool, Edinburgh, London, Washington DC); The Real & Imagined History of The Elephant Man (UK Tour); The Children (Nottingham Playhouse); Barnum (Watermill);

Credits as Video Associate include: Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (Mischief Theatre UK Tour, & Virgin Voyages); Carousel (RAM)

Programmer : Much Ado About Nothing (West End); Fear of 13 / The Maids (Donmar); All is But Fantasy (Royal Shakespeare Company); Little Foxes / The Homecoming / Passing Strange / A Face In The Crowd (Young Vic); Jesus Christ Superstar (Watermill); A View From The Bridge (Chichester Festival Theatre & Rose Theatre); Richard My Richard (Shakespeare North Playhouse); My Fathers Fable / Playlist for a Revolution (Bush Theatre); Sons of the Prophet / The Apology / The Fellowship / Mary (Hampstead Theatre); The Apology (Arcola Theatre);

Luca trained at LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts)