Kaitlin Brindley is a set and costume designer passionate about the world of theatre.

 

She is eager to pursue opportunities to work collaboratively with other theatre makers. Kaitlin is also enthusiastic about creating work that holds relevance to a modern day audience and using the platform of theatre to make comment on contemporary issues.

 

She graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with a Bachelor of Performing Arts - Design in 2017. She is a recipient of the 2017 David Hough Award for Outstanding Achievement in Design, and Super Minimal’s Award for Creativity. Her WAAPA credits include: as Set & Costume Designer – The Matchmaker, Three Sisters; as Set Designer – The Impresario and Les Mamelles de Tiresias; as Costume Designer – Present Laughter, Heathers the Musical, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. As a part of her studies Kaitlin also completed a secondment with Alicia Clements for The Hayes Theatre’s production of Gypsy in Sydney.

 

Pre-graduation, Kaitlin designed for local Perth school, Scotch College, designing and constructing sets and costumes for Danny the Champion of the World. She also worked as a design assistant for Scotch College’s production of Dunsinane and The Last Great Hunt’s The Advisors.

 

Since graduating, Kaitlin has maintained her relationship with Scotch College, designing sets and costumes for James and the Giant Peach and Oliver Twist in 2018 as well as The Government Inspector and Teechers in 2019. Kaitlin also designed for Minus One Sister as part of The Blue Room Theatre’s Summer Nights season for the Perth Fringe Festival hosted in the State Theatre’s Studio Underground. In 2018 she also designed for Penthouse at The Blue Room Theatre and has been engaged to design costumes for I Feel Fine at The Blue Room Theatre later this year.