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

Recent Lighting Design Credits include 

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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 Daughtersdirected by Sarah Frankcom (ArtsEd ALWF Theatre)​

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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) 

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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);   

Website - lucapanetta.com