Gabriela Tylesova

Gabriela Tylesova is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed designer. Her awards include: Helpmann Award for Best Set Design in 2009, 2011 and 2014; Helpmann Award for Best Costume Design in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2018; Green Room Award for Best Set Design in 2003 and 2011; Green Room Award for Best Costume Design in 2002, 2006 and 2011; Australian Production Design Guild Award for Best Set Design in 2012; Australian Production Design Guild Award for Best Costume Design in 2012 and 2014; Sydney Theatre Award for Best Costume Design in 2012 and 2013; and Sydney Theatre Award for Best Set Design in 2013. Gabriela’s work was exhibited at Prague Quadrennial in 1999 and in 2015, and in the Moscow exhibition Costume at the Turn of the Century in 2015. Gabriela’s design work includes: Il Turco in Italia, Cosi Fan Tutte, Baroque Masterworks, Salome, Sweeney Todd, the Rabbits and L’elisir d’amore for Opera Australia; Ladies in Black for Queensland Theatre Company; The Pillowman, Tomfoolery, Urinetown, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Visit, Blithe Spirit and Shakespeare in Love for Melbourne Theatre Company; Muriel’s Wedding the Musical for Global Creatures/Sydney Theatre Company; A Flea In Her Ear, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, This Little Piggy, Macbeth, Volpone, Attempts On Her Life and Twelfth Night for Sydney Theatre Company; Sleeping Beauty and Schéhérazade for The Australian Ballet; Boomerang and Of Earth And Sky for Bangarra Dance Theatre; Can we Afford This/The Cost of Living for DV8 Physical Theatre (Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival); Love Never Dies for Really Useful Group (Australia, Japan, Germany, US, UK); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To the Forum for Gordon Frost Organisation; and the musical adaptation of First Wives Club (USA). Gabriela also designed the sets and costumes for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. She collaborated with David McAllister on a beautiful picture book of The Sleeping Beauty, which was published in 2017. Gabriela is designing a new production of Swan Lake for the National Ballet of Canada.