Laura Gardner

Sixth season: Assistant costume designer of The Pirates of Penzance. Stratford: Assistant costume designer of Jesus Christ Superstar, Kiss Me, Kate; assistant designer of West Side Story, The Music Man, To Kill a Mockingbird. Elsewhere: Set and costume designer of Living With Henry (Fringe Festival, Next Stage); set and costume designer of Courageous (New Stages); costume and prop coordinator of 2011’s Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction Directors’ Workshop Presentation at Stratford; costume designer of The Mill: Ash (part four), associate costume designer of The Mill, parts one and two (Theatrefront); set and costume designer of The Three Munschketeers, The Paper Bag Princess & More (PTE); wardrobe coordinator of Antigone (Soulpepper); costume designer of Orson’s Shadow and The Scene (Pilot Group); production designer of The Great Gatsby (adapted and directed by David Rotenberg); set designer of the 2009 and 2010 Siminovitch Prize award ceremony (BMO); set designer for Gorey Story (Thistle Project); set designer for Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Classical Theatre Project); cutter for The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Cinderella, Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions). Film/TV: Costume designer of 11:43 (Dark Phoenix Pictures); costume designer of TMS: Apocalypse (Amnon Buchbinder); period costume and textile consultant, Red Riding Hood (Warner Bros.); set dresser, Christmas Dreams (CBC). Training: BFA, York University, theatre production and design program. Awards: David Edney Travel Grant, Stratford Shakespeare Festival; Pauline McGibbon Award nomination for emerging designer (Ontario Arts Council); Brian Jackson Award, Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Website: lauragardnerdesign.ca.