Julie Lynch

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Website: www.julielynchdesign.com

Julie has extensive experience as a costume and set designer and has won the prestigious Helpmann Award twice and Sydney Theatre Award three times for costume design.

In 2011 Julie was set and costume designer on The Misanthrope (State Theatre Co of South Australia), Zebra! (STC), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Really Useful Company – including Digital Media Design. Julie designed costumes for Opera Australia’s new production of La Boheme, for which she won the Australian Production Design Guild Award for Best Costume. Also, this year, Julie designed the costumes for the large scale musical production Spiral, in China (director Gale Edwards). In 2008, she completed the costume design for the World Youth Day Stations of the Cross, an open air event staged across the city of Sydney and watched by 500,000 people in the presence of the Pope and millions of worldwide television viewers.

Her extensive credits include costume design for Travesties (Sydney Theatre Award 2009), The Rocky Horror Show (Helpmann Award 2007), The Way of the World (Helpmann Award 2003), The Bourgeois Gentleman (Sydney Theatre Award 2006) and Festen (Sydney Theatre Award 2005).

Julie’s other credits include: Chasing the Dragon, Del Del, What is the Matter with Mary Jane, Death and the Maiden, The Ham Funeral (co-designer; Sydney Theatre Company), Buried Child and Trouble in Tahiti (Belvoir Street Theatre); Love Burns (Victoria State Opera).

Julie was Head of Costume at the National Institute of Dramatic Art between 2000 and 2005 and was awarded the 2009 Women and Arts Fellowship and 2009 Rex Cramphorn Scholarship. She has also designed costumes for Hi 5. Julie is currently designing Salome for the 2012 Opera Australia production.