ANNA CORDINGLEY
Recent credits include: Set and Costume design for The Story of Mary Maclane by Herself
by Bojana Novakovic and Tim Rogers, Little Match Girl by Meow Meow for Sydney Festival
and Malthouse Theatre, National tours for Both Macbeth and Julius Caser Directed by
Peter Evans, for Chunky Move, Connected, for the Melbourne International Arts Festival,
David Chesworth’s Richter/Meinhof-Opera and Black Arm Band’s Hidden Republic; as
Artist in Residence at the Malthouse Theatre, A Golem Story, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore,
Sappho… in 9 Fragments, The Threepenny Opera, Elizabeth - Almost By Chance A
Woman, Furious Mattress, One Night the Moon, Knives in Hens (with State Theatre Co.
SA), Happy Days (with Belvoir Street Theatre), A Commercial Farce, Rogue, Not Like
Beckett and Autobiography of Red. For Arts House, Irony Is Not Enough: Essay On My Life
as Catherine Deneuve and Slanting Into the Void; for The Storeroom, Mile in Her Shadow
and Conversations in a Brothel; for Hothouse, The Glory. Anna has assisted Gideon
Obarzanek for Lucy Guerin Inc.’s Human Interest Story, Peter Corrigan for Malthouse
Theatre’s Woyzeck, Trina Parker for Melbourne Workers Theatre’s 1975 and Daniel
Dvořák for The National Theatre of Prague’s The Death of Klinghoffer (Czech Republic).
Beyond the theatre, Anna has designed for Simon Barley (Bambuco) with The Eighth
Bridge over the River Tyne (UK) and Spine, Ludo and Rue Faidherbe Lille 2004 (France) &
for Well, The Great Wall of Books (Macau). Her exhibitions include An Account of Bridges
at the Baltic Contemporary Art Centre/Sage Gateshead (UK) and Facilitation for Brook
Andrew in Colony in the 2007 Den Haag Sculpture Exhibition (The Netherlands). Public
events include Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games: Opening Ceremony (Indigenous
Section) and Closing Ceremony (Marvelous Melbourne). Anna has a Bachelor of Dramatic
Art, Production Design from the Victorian College of the Arts and is midway through a
Masters of Curatorship at Melbourne University.
BIOGRAPHY CURRENT March 2012