Vale Efterpi Soropos

The lighting designer, multimodal artist and mental health recovery coach died earlier this month, aged 61.

Efterpi Soropos, whose work ranged from lighting design for mainstage theatre productions to carefully designed spaces created to comfort the dying, has died unexpectedly aged 61.

At 14, her family relocated to Port Macquarie; two years later, aged 16, Soropos moved to Sydney in order to pursue her dream of studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts