Simone Romaniuk

Simone Romaniuk is a live performance designer for theatre, opera and festivals.

Theatre set and costume designs include: for Queensland Theatre Company: A Few Good Men, Tiny Beautiful Things (with Belvoir), 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 Ensemble Theatre: 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 Sydney Theatre Company: The Crucible, Seneca’s Thyestes; for Brisbane Festival: Macbeth, The Wizard of Oz; for Brisbane Festival / Sydney Festival: Bananaland.

Opera set and costume designs 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 Queensland Conservatorium: Iolanthe; for RNCM, Manchester: La Vie Parisienne; for Opera Queensland: The Mikado, The Merry Widow, Space Encounters, The Magic Flute.

Simone was Creative Director of Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival and Moon Lantern Parade from 2015 – 2019 (winner of Best Major Festival at the South Australian Tourism Awards). In 2013 she was festival designer for Brisbane Festival and in 2012 resident designer with Queensland Theatre Company. She is an accredited member of the Australian Production Design Guild.