Stephen Curtis

Stephen Curtis has worked extensively as a costume and set designer for drama, film, opera, physical theatre and dance. Major credits include Platée for Pinchgut Opera, La Bohème (West Australian Opera/Opera Queensland/Opera Australia); Lulu, The Cunning Little Vixen, Turn of the Screw (Opera Australia/ Houston Grand Opera); Cenerentola, Der Ring Des Nibelungen (State Opera of South Australia); The Secret River (Edinburgh Festival/Adelaide Festival/STC); A Man With Five Children, The Government Inspector, Heartbreak House (Sydney Theatre Company); Black Diggers, (QTC/Sydney Festival), I Am Eora (Sydney Festival); All About My Mother, Life x 3, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tribes, Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Blue Room for Melbourne Theatre Company; The Winter’s Tale, Henry IV, The Wars of the Roses, The Government Inspector and The Servant of Two Masters for Bell Shakespeare Company; Holding the Man, The Weekend, Cursed!, Things I Know To Be True, Barbara and The Camp Dogs, The Drover’s Wife, Gwen in Purgatory, Scorched (Belvoir St Theatre). As a production designer Stephen’s film credits include Looking for Alibrandi, Bedevil and Night Cries. Stephen has also published Staging Ideas: Set and Costume Design for Theatre as a guide to the art of theatre design, and The Designer: Decorator or Dramaturg? as a Platform Paper interrogating the contemporary role of the performance designer.