Sabina is a costume and production designer for film, tv, theatre and opera. She holds an MFA (Design for Performance) from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and a BA (Art History) from the University of Queensland. Sabina also works as an illustrator and concept artist in both digital and traditional mediums.
SELECTED CREDITS:
STAGE:
Il Tabarro - Costume and Set Designer. Victorian Opera,Sydney Festival (2024), dir. Con Costi
Inferno - Costume and Co-set Designer. Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (2023), dir. Con Costi
Melbourne, Cheremushki (Shostakovich) - Costume Designer. Victorian Opera (2023), dir. Con Costi
The Barber of Seville (Rossini) - Costume Designer. Opera Australia (2022 National Tour), dir. Priscilla Jackman
Orontea (Cesti) - Costume Designer. Pinchgut Opera (2022), dir. Con Costi
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten) - Costume Designer. Sydney Conservatorium of Music/NIDA (2021), dir. Kate Gaul.
48th United Arab Emirates National Day Celebration, Abu Dhabi - Set Design Associate. Betty Productions (2019)
Werther - Costume Consultant. Opera Australia (2019), dir. Con Costi/ Elijah Moshinsky
The Van De Maar Papers - Set and Costume Designer. An Assorted Few (2017), dir. Alexander Berlage
Woyzeck - Set and Costume Designer. NIDA (2016), dir. John Sheedy
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Set and Costume Designer. NIDA (2016), dir. Iain Sinclair
Rats in the Walls - Exhibition/performance co-designer. Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design (2015)
SCREEN:
Play Dirty - Cast Prep Costumer. Amazon MGM (2025)
The Fall Guy - interim Assistant Costume Designer. Universal Pictures (2024)
Finding Jedda - Costume Designer. Orange Entertainment (2021), dir. Tanith Glynn-Maloney
Three Thousand Years of Longing - Costume Design Assistant. Kennedy Miller Mitchell (2022)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - Costume Digital Assets Manager/ Design Assistant. Marvel Studios (2021)
The Matrix Awakens: Unreal Engine 5 Demo - Assistant to Kym Barrett (costume designer). Epic Games, (2021)
Boy & Bear - Telescope (MV) - Costume and Production designer. (2019), dir. Nick Waterman
Sweet Tooth - Costume Designer. Bull Ant Productions/AFTRS (2019), dir. Shannon Ashlyn
Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV) - Costume Assistant. FremantleMedia/ Foxtel (2018)
Fitting - Production Designer. Cosmia Production (2018), dir. Emily Avila
Sheppard - Coming Home (MV) - Production Designer. Tasy Pictures/Decca (2018), dir. Nick Waterman
Sink - Costume and Production Designer. Billfilms (2018), dir. Cloudy Rhodes
Willow Beats - Be Kind to Yourself (MV) - Production Designer. (2017), dir. Oren Lavie
WILSN - Walking for Days (MV) - Costume and Production Designer. Triple J/Rage (2016), dir. Priscilla Jackman.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:
Thelma Afford Award for Costume Design in Stage and Screen, 2024
APDG AWARDS 2024 - Nomination - Costume Design for Live Performance - Melbourne Cheremushki
APDG AWARDS 2024 - Nomination - Multi-discipline Design for Live Performance - Il Tabarro
APDG AWARDS 2024 - Nomination - Multi-discipline Design for Live Performance - Inferno
GREEN ROOM AWARDS 2024 - Winner - Best Design of an Opera - Melbourne Cheremushki
OPERACHASER AWARDS 2023 - Winner - Outstanding Costume Design - Melbourne Cheremushki
APDG AWARDS 2016 – Winner - Emerging Designer for Live Performance - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
APDG AWARDS 2019 - Nomination - Emerging Designer for Screen - Sweet Tooth
APDG AWARDS 2019 - Nomination - Concept Design Visualisation - Madama Butterfly
William Fletcher Foundation Grant for Stage Design, 2016
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS:
2019: Innovative Costume of the 21st Century: The Next Generation - A.A. Bakhrushin State Theatre Museum, Moscow.
2016: Keeping the Body in Mind: Recovery Narratives - The Black Dog Institute, Sydney.
2015: Costume at the Turn of the Century - A.A. Bakhrushin State Theatre Museum, Moscow.
2015: Rats in the Walls/ Exham Priory - Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague.