Camellia Koo

Performance

Camellia is a set and costume designer for theatre, opera, dance and site-specific performance installations. Recent designs for opera include Bremen Town Musicians and Operation Superpower (Canadian Opera Company School Tours), Macbeth (Minnesota Opera), Marilyn Forever (Aventa Ensmeble), Carmen and The Tales of Hoffman (Edmonton Opera), Maria Stuarda (Pacific Opera Victoria), The Lighthouse (Boston Lyric Opera), Pélleas et Mélisande, Turn of the Screw and La Bohéme (Against the Grain), Giiwedin (Native Earth), and The Shadow (Tapestry New Opera). Recent designs for theatre include collaborations Tarragon Theatre, The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, and Cahoots Theatre Projects. She has received six Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Sterling Award, a Chalmers Award Grant, Siminovitch Protégé Prize, 2011 European Opera Directing Third Prize Team, and the 2016 Virginia & Myrtle Cooper Award for costume design. Upcoming plans include set and costume designs for The Rape of Lucretia (Banff/AtG), and Simon Boccanegra (POV).