Hannah Gabrielle

SLT Member 2006 - Present

Began working on costume in 2003, creating an ensemble of costumes for the interpretative production of Medea at St Mary's University College, University of Surrey. The play was a free verse interpretation of Euripides' 'Medea' taking its influences from a wide variety of styles including Keralan kathakali dance techniques, Pina Bausch and Robert Lepage. The costumes consisted of a hybrid between traditional Greek robes, Roman togas and Indian saris. They began as white canvasses with powdered paint being thrown across them, ending in a bright canvass of colours which conveyed movement.

She returned to costuming in the July 2007 production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. This ensemble devised piece stripped the traditional dress down to a contemporary minimal black, white and red canvas of colours.

Costume should enhance the actor's ability to perform as opposed to elabourately concealing him/her.

Productions as Costume Designer

• Julius Caesar (2007) (Prompt Corner)
• Aladdin (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Bullshot Crummond 92008) (Prompt Corner)