Louisa Fitzgerald is a Set and Costume Designer for Theatre, Opera and Dance. Her practice is informed by a passion for design history, and her skilled background as an artist and maker. Originally from Sydney where she earned a Bachelor of Design from the University of New South Wales, she moved to Melbourne to complete a Master of Production Design for Stage at the Victorian College of the Arts. Recent design credits include set and costume design for Victorian Opera’s Mansfield Park (2025) and English Eccentrics (2024); set design for The Grumpiest Boy in the World (2023); costume design for The Australian Ballet’s The Nutcracker Act II (2025) and Storytime Ballet: Cinderella (2023); Boys on the Verge of Tears (2025) and Milked (2024) at fortyfive downstairs. Recent associate design credits include Victorian Opera’s Follies (2025) and La Rondine (2024), and Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre’s Your Name Means Dream (2024). Recent award nominations include a 2024 Greenroom Award nomination for Opera Design and a 2024 Australian Production Designers Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Emerging Designer. Louisa was a 2024 Graduate Ensemble Member of Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, and represented Australia as co-designer of ‘Storylines’ at the 2023 Prague Quadrennial.
