Kate Hawley is a New Zealand set and costume designer who works on film and stage productions. In film she designed the costumes for ''

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'' (2015) and ''

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'' (2018). Stage productions include work for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the New Zealand Festival and the New Zealand Opera Company.

Biography

Hawley grew up in

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, New Zealand, and attended

Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Samuel Marsden Collegiate School is a private composite girls school located in the Wellington suburb of Karori in New Zealand. It has a socio-economic decile of 10 - on a scale from 1 to 10, 1 reflecting the lowest socioeconomic communities - ...

from 1982 to 1988. Following high school, she studied graphic design at the Wellington School of Design at Wellington Polytechnic, completing a diploma in visual communication design in 1992. In 1996, she attended the

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in London. Hawley began her career in theatre and opera productions, and later moved into costume design for film. In 1993 Hawley won Costume Designer of the Year at the

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. She has taught at Toi Whakaari The New Zealand Drama School. Some stage productions she has worked on include as the set and costume designer of '' The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead'' starring Kerry Fox, directed by

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in 2006 for Auckland Theatre Company. Costume design for opera ''The Trial of the Cannibal Dog'' (composer Matthew Suttor, librettist John Downie, director Christian Penny, conductor Peter Scholes, producer New Zealand Festival), and set and costume design of ''Hansel and Gretel,'' a Royal New Zealand Ballet production choreographed by Loughlan Prior. In 2007 Hawley was the production designer of the New Zealand Opera production of '' Lucia di Lammermoor.'' In reviewing this production, Pepe Becker wrote:

The all-female leaders of the creative team (director Lindy Hume, assistant director
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and production designer Kate Hawley) are to be congratulated for their outstanding and ingenious direction. Venturing away from the traditional sort of production one expects for a Donizetti work proves to be a good move.

In film Hawley has worked for

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on ''

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'' and with Guillermero Del Toro on ''The Hobbit,

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'' and ''Crimson Peak''. She designed the costumes for '' Edge of Tomorrow'' (2014)'','' the 2016 movie '' Suicide Squad,'' and ''

'' directed by

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. In 2016, Hawley was nominated for a

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for her work on ''Crimson Peak''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hawley, Kate Living people People from Wellington City New Zealand costume designers Women costume designers People educated at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Year of birth missing (living people) New Zealand theatre people New Zealand scenic designers New Zealand film people Set designers