Leah Downey
Set & Costume Design
01 about
Leah Downey is a Melbourne-based Set and Costume Designer working across theatre and live performance.
Her practice combines design with hands-on making. Alongside designing productions, she builds and realises elements of the work through scenic painting, set construction, and props and costume making.
Her work explores bold visual worlds that shape the atmosphere of a production and bring the stage to life. She holds a First Class BA (Hons) in Theatre Design from the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.
02 portfolio
03 current projects
Set Designer for Taming of the Shrew, directed by Emma Austin (Melbourne Shakespeare Company - Central Park, Malvern, Melbourne)
Set Designer for Teddy Bears' Picnic directed by Carl Whiteside (Melbourne Shakespeare Company -
St Kilda Botanical Gardens, Melbourne)
04 design works
Set & Costume Designer for Berlin, directed by Erica Chestnut (A Little Life Productions - Meat Market, Melbourne)
Set Designer for Robin Hood, directed by Carl Whiteside (Melbourne Shakespeare Company - Central Park, Malvern, Melbourne)
Set & Costume Design Assistant for Hamlet, directed by Ian Sinclair (Melbourne Shakespeare Company - Forty-Five Downstairs, Melbourne)
Set & Costume Designer & Scenic Artist for Dry Land, directed by Erica Chestnut (Quiet Roar Productions - St Martins Youth Art Centre, Melbourne)
Scenic Artist for A Gentlesman's Guide to Love and Murder, directed by Barbara Hughes (Williams Town Little Theatre, Melbourne)
Set Designer and Costume Assistant for Hamlet, directed by Nick Opolski (Avid Productions - Mycelium Studios, Melbourne)
Scenic Artist for Jumpers for Goalposts, directed by Bruce Akers (Williams Town Little Theatre, Melbourne)
Costume Designer for Incoming Words of War: The Wives, directed by Kerry Drumm (Little Red Fox Productions, Melbourne)
Set & Costume Designer for Continental Quilt, directed by Les Hart (Williamstown Little Theatre, Melbourne)
Set Designer & Scenic Artist for Agnes of God, directed by Deborah Fabbro (Williamstown Little Theatre, Melbourne)
Set Designer & Scenic Artist for All My Sons, directed by Loretta Bishop (Williams Town Little Theatre, Melbourne)
Costume Designer & Maker for Around the World in Eighty Days, directed by Peter Newling (Williams Town Little Theatre, Melbourne)
Set Designer and Scenic Artist for Gruesome Playground Injuries, directed by Erica Chestnut (Little Ray of Sunshine Productions - St Martins Youth Art Centre)
Set Designer & Scenic Artist for City Song, directed by Shirley Sydenham (Williams Town Little Theatre, Melbourne)
Costume Designer for The River, directed by Terese Maurici (Williams Town Little Theatre, Melbourne)
Wedding Designer & Maker (Forty-five Downstairs, Melbourne)
Costume Designer & Maker, Set Designer & Scenic Artist for The Bacchae, directed by Chris Tomlinson with the Young Everyman Playhouse Company (The Everyman, Liverpool)
Set Designer & Scenic Artist for Pericles, directed by Russel Bolam (LIPA, Liverpool)
Set & Costume Designer for Mercury Fur, directed by Matthew Xia (a hypothetical design for the Royal Exchange Studio Theatre, Manchester)
Costume Designer & Maker for the Spoonsized Person, inspired by the visionary style of the Director Terry Gilliam.
Set & Costume Designer for Assassins, directed by Teddy Kindle (a hypothetical design for LIPA)
Costume Designer & Maker for The Super Heroes, directed by The Egg Men (Liverpool City Centre)
Costume Designer & Maker for The Little Politicians, directed by The Egg Men (Liverpool City Centre)
Set Design Assistant for A Little Night Music, directed by Suzy Suttcliffe (LIPA)
Puppet Maker & Puppeteer for The Lantern Parade (Sefton Park, Liverpool)
Set & Costume Designer for The Glass Menagerie, directed by Andy Barry (a hypothetical design for LIPA)
Wordrobe Assistant for Earthquakes In London, directed by Dan Bird (LIPA)
Scenic Artist for The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas, directed by Brendon Burns (LIPA)