Kathleen Kershaw

Kathleen Kershaw is a set and costume designer living and working on Gadigal land in Sydney. Kathleen’s process is fluid and responsive, consistently featuring a hands-on approach to research and exploration. She is driven by a love of sharing stories and seeks to build emotive worlds that draw the audience and performers together. During her time at the National Institute of Dramatic Art Kathleen has completed hypothetical set and costume designs for texts such as A Flea in her Ear by Georges Feydeau, Scenes from an Execution by Howard Barker, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner. In 2022 Kathleen designed the costumes for NIDA’s production of Picnic at Hanging Rock, adapted by Tom Wright and directed by Claudia Osbourne. Kathleen worked as the production and costume designer in collaboration with director Jess Ramsey and Melbourne band Sophisticated Dingo on the music video for The Job I Took. Kathleen has also had the opportunity to take up the role of writer and director for Kelly, a short film created by the graduating design class. In support of her studies Kathleen has completed workplace secondments in both TV and live performance. She spent time in the Art Department on Foxtel’s production of The Twelve and joined the internationally acclaimed company Gravity and Other Myths in Adelaide during the final stages of development on their recent production The Mirror for the Chameleon theatre in Berlin.