Kate Hawley

Kate Hawley
NationalityNew Zealand
EducationWellington Polytech & Motley Theatre Design
Known forSet and costume design

Kate Hawley is a New Zealand set and costume designer who works on film and stage productions. In film she designed the costumes for Crimson Peak (2015) and Mortal Engines (2018). Stage productions include work for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the New Zealand Festival and the New Zealand Opera Company.

Biography

Hawley grew up in Wellington, New Zealand, and attended Samuel Marsden Collegiate School from 1982 to 1988. Following high school, she studied graphic design at the Wellington School of Design at Wellington Polytechnic, completing a diploma in visual communication design in 1992.[1][2] In 1996, she attended the Motley Theatre Design Course in London.[1][3]

Hawley began her career in theatre and opera productions, and later moved into costume design for film.[4] In 1993 Hawley won Costume Designer of the Year at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards.[5] She has taught at Toi Whakaari The New Zealand Drama School.[6]

Some stage productions she has worked on include as the set and costume designer of The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead starring Kerry Fox, directed by Colin McColl in 2006 for Auckland Theatre Company.[7] Costume design for opera The Trial of the Cannibal Dog (composer Matthew Suttor, librettist John Downie, director Christian Penny, conductor Peter Scholes, producer New Zealand Festival),[8] and set and costume design of Hansel and Gretel, a Royal New Zealand Ballet production choreographed by Loughlan Prior.[9] In 2007 Hawley was the production designer of the New Zealand Opera production of Lucia di Lammermoor.[10] In reviewing this production, Pepe Becker wrote:

The all-female leaders of the creative team (director Lindy Hume, assistant director Sara Brodie and production designer Kate Hawley) are to be congratulated for their outstanding and ingenious direction. Venturing away from the traditional sort of production one expects for a Donizetti work proves to be a good move.[10]

In film Hawley has worked for Peter Jackson on The Lovely Bones and with Guillermero Del Toro on The Hobbit, Pacific Rim and Crimson Peak.[1][11] She designed the costumes for Edge of Tomorrow (2014), the 2016 movie Suicide Squad,[12][13] and Mortal Engines directed by Christian Rivers.[14]

In 2016, Hawley was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Costume Design for her work on Crimson Peak.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Kate Hawley (2017)". Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Kate Hawley". Massey University: Alumni Relations. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  3. ^ "From Hollywood to Wellywood: Kate Hawley, Crimson Peak and Suicide Squad costume designer comes home". thisNZlife. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  4. ^ Croot, James (23 October 2015). "Awards talk for Kiwi costumer designer". Stuff. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Winners of the Wellington-based Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards, inaugurated in 1992". Theatre Aotearoa Database. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  6. ^ Guest, Bill (2010). Transitions: Four Decades of Toi Whakaari; New Zealand Drama School. Ginny Sullivan, Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School. Wellington [N.Z.]: Victoria University Press. ISBN 978-0-86473-642-0. OCLC 669968400.
  7. ^ "The Blonde, The Brunette and The Vengeful Redhead". Auckland Theatre Company. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Production Information: The Trial of the Cannibal Dog". TheatreView. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Production Information: Hansel and Gretel (RNZB)". TheatreView. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  10. ^ a b Becker, Pepe (25 June 2007). "Lucia di Lammermoor: Superb Execution of Music and Production". TheatreView. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  11. ^ Cohen, David S. (30 September 2015). "'Crimson Peak' Costume Designer Mixes Frills and Chills for Victorian Story". Variety. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Kate Hawley". IMDb. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  13. ^ Barna, Ben (August 2016). "'Suicide Squad' Costume Designer Kate Hawley on Reimagining Harley Quinn". NYLON. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  14. ^ "Credits | Mortal Engines | Film | NZ On Screen". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  15. ^ "2016 Saturn Awards Nominees Announced". Dread Central. 24 February 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2021.