A.A. Bakhrushin Central State Theatre Museum

Eloise Kazan studied fine arts at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City and in 1999 she graduated from a postgraduate design course at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK.

She has worked internationally as a designer on more than sixty productions including theatre, dance, opera, interior architecture and film. Recent work includes costume design for the Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Soldier in Every Son directed by Roxana Silbert (Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK), costume design for the critically acclaimed play The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich and the production design for Deborah Kampmeier's independent feature film Split, to be released in 2014..

She has designed extensively for opera including the costume designs for the Opera de Bellas Artes (Mexico) productions of Macbeth, Jenufa and Rusalka, set and costumes for a Cosi Fan Tutte directed by Sergio Vela for the Mozart Festival (A Coruña, Spain) the costumes for the 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures Monterrey production of Winterreise directed byYoshi Oida and the costumes for Madama Butterfly directed by Olivier Tambosi for the Guadalajara Mayo Festival in Mexico.

She was one of the recipients of the top prize for costume design at the Prague Quadrennial 2007. She is also a two time recipient of the Mexican National Arts Fund (FONCA) Young Artist Grant for Theatre Design.

Designer Gallery

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