Ruby Jenkins Scott Cleggett Maddison Craven

RUBY JENKINS

Ruby Jenkins is a multidisciplinary designer working across Adelaide and Sydney. Her practice is founded in a rigorous and sensitive collaborative process. Her designs bring together deep research and understanding with a witty, playful theatricality. Her recent costume designs for the musical Falsettos (Directed by David Berthold) as part of NIDA’s 2022 June Production season showcased her knack for the whimsical. Other hypothetical design projects completed over the course of her degree such as Brett Dean’s Opera Bliss, Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, and A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau also illustrate Ruby’s interest in conveying narratives dynamically through design. Other major highlights at NIDA include designing a music video for Triple J Unearthed winner Gloomie for her song Say It To My Face (Directed by Chinmaya Madan), and most recently co-production design for short film Kelly (Directed by Kathleen Kershaw). Ruby has also undertaken screen industry placements on The Twelve in 2021 and Furiosa and a live performance industry placement with Patch Theatre in Adelaide in 2022. Earlier this year Ruby worked with Adelaide-based company Famous Last Words as set and costume designer for the debut of Home Thoughts (Directed by James Watson), and for the Flinders University Performing Arts Society’s production of Almost, Maine presented at the Bakehouse Theatre in Adelaide (Directed by Alana Lymn). Ruby is excited to continue her collaboration with Famous Last Words in 2023 at Goodwood Studios as resident designer for the company.

STUDENTS’ MENTORS

Thank you to the following artists who acted as mentors for the students on these productions:

Directing: Jess Arthur, Alexander Berlage, Jimmy Dalton, Kenneth Moraleda, Claudia Osbourne and Imara Savage

Design: Ella Butler and Stephen Curtis

Technical Theatre and Stage Management: Sean Bacon, Phil Downing, Georgia Gilbert, Monica Girard, Sian James-Holland, Cameron Menzies, Kingsley Reeve and Nicole Robinson

Make-Up: Cathy Malik

Student Portraits: Maja Baska

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