Isabel Hudson

SET & Costume DESIGNER

Isabel Hudson is an award-winning set and costume designer. Isabel holds a Bachelor of Design from NIDA and a Bachelor of Arts (Screen and Sound) from the University of New South Wales. She is a lecturer at NIDA in Design for Performance.

Design credits include Dear Evan Hansen (costume), A Fool in Love, Constellations and Hubris and Humiliation (Sydney Theatre Company), The Mousetrap (costume, Crossroads Live), The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, Nucleus, Jailbaby, and Pony (Griffin Theatre Company), Torch the Place (set, Melbourne Theatre Company), Blessed Union, Winyanboga Yurringa, and Every Brilliant Thing (Belvoir), Master Class (Ensemble Theatre), The Lovers (Shake & Stir), Maureen: Harbinger of Death (Sydney Festival / Rising Festival), Young Frankenstein (set), American Psycho (set), and Cry-Baby (set) (Hayes Theatre Co), La Bohème (Opera Australia), Aphrodite (Sydney Chamber Orchestra), Farnace (PinchgutOpera), Son (Circa), Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Darlinghurst Theatre Co.), Bright Star (Sport for Jove), The Shifting Heart and Blackrock (Seymour Centre), Edward the Emu (Monkey Baa Theatre), Dry Land (set) and She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange (Kings Cross Theatre), King of Pigs and Eurydice (Old Fitz), Jess & Joe Forever (Belvoir 25A), Little Borders (costume, Old 505 Theatre), Chamber Pot Opera (Sydney Opera House, Edinburgh Festival, St Petersburg season), Intersection and Journey’s End (ATYP), The Rolling Stone (Outhouse Theatre Co.), and Hurt (HotHouse Theatre & Downstairs Belvoir).

For Global Creatures, Isabel was Associate Set Designer for Moulin Rouge! (Australia, Korea and Japan). For Opera Australia, Isabel was Assistant Designer for The Merry Widow and My Fair Lady. For Sydney Theatre Company, she was Associate Designer on Fun Home, directed by Dean Bryant.

Isabel has won four Sydney Theatre Awards for her outstanding designs: Best Set Design for Constellations, American Psycho and Cry-Baby, and Best Costume Design for Hubris and Humiliation. She also won an APDG Award for Best Set Design for American Psycho. Nominations include two APDG Awards for Best Set Design and three further Sydney Theatre Award nominations for Best Set Design. She was awarded the Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship in 2022 and the Thelma Afford Award for Costume Design in Stage and Screen in 2022.