Simone Romaniuk

Simone Romaniuk is a live performance designer who works extensively across theatre, opera, festivals and immersive events in Australia and the UK.
Her work has been seen around Australia, New Zealand and the UK with companies including Queensland Theatre, State Opera South Australia, Opera Queensland, NZ Opera, Pacific Opera, Sydney Theatre Company, Ensemble Theatre, Brisbane Festival and Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival.

Opera set and costume designs include: for State Opera South Australia: La boheme, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Love Burns, Boojum!; for Queensland Conservatorium: Iolanthe; for Royal Northern College of Music: La Vie Parisienne; for Pacific Opera: La Sonnambula, Hansel and Gretel; for Opera Queensland: The Mikado, The Merry Widow, Space Encounters, The Magic Flute.

Theatre set and costume designs include: for Queensland Theatre: Tiny Beautiful Things, The Almighty Sometimes, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Macbeth, Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman, Venus in Fur, Bombshells, Kelly, Head Full of Love, Fractions, The Little Dog Laughed, Australia Day, The Pitch, The China Incident, The Removalists, An Oak Tree, Man Equals Man, Waiting for Godot, Eating Ice Cream, Beckett x 3, Ruby Moon; for Sydney Theatre Company: The Crucible, Seneca’s Thyestes; for Unicorn Theatre, London: The Hunting Lodge; for Ensemble Theatre: Suddenly Last Summer, Clyde’s, Honour, Kenny, The Last Wife, Luna Gale, Shirley Valentine, Frankenstein, Casanova; for Brisbane Festival: Bananaland, Macbeth.

Simone was Creative Director of Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival and Moon Lantern Parade from 2015 – 2019, which was shortlisted twice in the Australian Production Design Guild awards and won Best Major Festival at the South Australian Tourism Awards 2019. She was Festival Designer for Brisbane Festival in 2013 and designed the Southbank precinct as well as the Theatre Republic precinct.

In 2012, Simone was Resident Designer with Queensland Theatre and prior to that was an affiliate artist with the company. She has won four Matilda awards for Queensland Theatre productions.

Simone holds a Bachelor of 3D Design from Queensland College of Art and a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Design) from NIDA.

Simone’s designs can be seen at www.simoneromaniuk.com

bio updated nov 2023