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Nathan is a Melbourne based set and costume designer and theatre maker for live performance. He has worked closely with new styles, forms, and stories, exploring contemporary dramaturgy, audience experiences, and aesthetics.
In recent years, Nathan’s work includes designs for Eurydice (Melbourne Shakespeare Company); Vigil (Outer Urban Projects); Abduction (Victorian Opera); Robot Dog (Melbourne Theatre Company); A Brief Episode (Melbourne Fringe Festival); Interior (Rawcus); The Importance of Being Earnest (Bloomshed); We're Banking On It (Bloomshed/MUST); Peacemongers (The People/Darebin Arts Speakeasy); Vampire Lesbians Of Sodom (Little Ones Theatre); Animal Farm (Bloomshed/Darebin Arts Speakeasy); Loaded (Malthouse Theatre);Paradise Lost (Bloomshed/Darebin Arts Speakeasy); Animal Farm (Bloomshed/Platform Arts); Considerable Sexual License (Joel Bray Dance/Darebin Arts Speakeasy); End Of (Darebin Arts Speakeasy 2020, Griffin Theatre 2022).
Nathan has been awarded the Green Room Awards Best Set and Costume Design for Paradise Lost as well as being nominated for his design work on Animal Farm, We're Banking On It, Interior.
Nathan is a guest lecturer and tutor at Victorian College of the Arts/The University of Melbourne and Collarts.
Nathan was set design secondment to Owen Phillips on Vivid White (MTC) and design associate to Eugyeene Teh on Nightingale And The Rose (Little Ones Theatre). He holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts (2014) from Monash University and Masters of Design for Live Performance (2017) from the Victorian College of the Arts.
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