SIMONE ROMANIUK
​Designer

Simone Romaniuk is an award-winning live performance designer who works across theatre, opera, and festivals.

​Her productions have been seen around Australia, New Zealand and the UK, with companies including Queensland Theatre Company, Victorian Opera, State Opera South Australia, Opera Queensland, NZ Opera, Pinchgut Opera, Sydney Theatre Company, Ensemble Theatre, Bell Shakespeare, Brisbane Festival, Sydney Festival and Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival.

Simone’s set and design credits for theatre include: for Queensland Theatre Company: DO NOT GO GENTLE, A FEW GOOD MEN, TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS (with Belvoir St Theatre), THE ALMIGHTY SOMETIMES, BERNHARDT/HAMLET, MACBETH, ELIZABETH: ALMOST BY CHANCE A WOMAN, VENUS IN FUR, BOMBSHELLS, KELLY, HEAD FULL OF LOVE, FRACTIONS, THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, AUSTRALIA DAY, THE PITCH, THE CHINA INCIDENT, THE REMOVALISTS, AN OAK TREE, MAN EQUALS MAN, WAITING FOR GODOT, EATING ICE CREAM, BECKETT X 3, RUBY MOON; for Gooding/Woodward Productions: STEEL MAGNOLIAS, SHIRLEY VALENTINE; for Bell Shakespeare: JULIUS CAESAR (costume design); for Ensemble Theatre: THE DAPTO CHASER, THE ROOMMATE, TRUE WEST, HOW TO PLOT A HIT IN TWO DAYS, THE LOVER & THE DUMBWAITER, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, CLYDE’S, HONOUR, KENNY, THE LAST WIFE, LUNA GALE, SHIRLEY VALENTINE, FRANKENSTEIN, CASANOVA; for Unicorn Theatre, London: THE HUNTING LODGE; for Brisbane Festival: MACBETH, THE WIZARD OF OZ; for Brisbane Festival / Sydney Festival: BANANALAND.

Opera set and costume credits include: for Victorian Opera: EUCALYPTUS; for Pinchgut Opera: RINALDO; for State Opera South Australia: LA BOHEME, SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL, LOVE BURNS, BOOJUM!; for Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester: LA VIE PARISIENNE; for Opera Queensland: THE MIKADO, THE MERRY WIDOW, SPACE ENCOUNTERS, THE MAGIC FLUTE.

Simone was Creative Director of OzAsia Festival and Creative Director/Designer of the Moon Lantern Parade at the Adelaide Festival Centre from 2015 - 2019. She was Resident Designer with Queensland Theatre Company in 2012, and prior to this was an Affiliate Artist with the company.

Simone has won and been nominated for multiple Matilda Awards and was a Manchester Theatre Awards design finalist. While she was Creative Director, OzAsia Festival won Best Major Festivals and Events in the South Australian Tourism Awards 2019 and was shortlisted twice for event design in the Australian Production Design Guild Awards.

Simone holds a Bachelor of Dramatic Art, Design from the National Institute of Dramatic Art and Bachelor of Design Studies, Three Dimensional Design from Queensland College of Art. She is an accredited member of the Australian Production Design Guild.

View Simone’s work at www.simoneromaniuk.com