Mel Page is an award-winning set and costume designer working in opera, theatre and film. In opera, she has designed costumes for productions including the world premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence and Tristan und Isolde at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Lear and Médée at the Salzburg Festival, Die tote Stadt and Die Teufel von Loudun at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and Pelléas et Mélisande at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo. She has also designed sets for Noye’s Fludde at the Victorian Opera in Melbourne.
Theatre productions for which Mel Page has designed costumes have included Phaedra at the National Theatre in London, Engel in Amerika and Drei Schwestern at Theater Basel, Les Trois Soeurs at the Odéon in Paris, On the Beach, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mary Stuart, Les Liaisons dangereuses and Baal at the Sydney Theatre Company, Opening Night, Stop Girl, Jasper Jones, Ivanov, Kill the Messenger, Seventeen, The Glass Menagerie, A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, Angels in America, Strange Interlude, The Promise and Elektra / Orestes at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney and The Government Inspector and Pompeii, L. A. at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne. She has also designed sets and costumes for A Raisin in the Sun and Lethal Indifference at the Sydney Theatre Company, Back at the Dojo, A Taste of Honey, An Enemy of the People, Small and Tired and Medea at the Belvoir St Theatre, Minnie and Liraz and Apocalypse Bear Trilogy for the Melbourne Theatre Company, night maybe for Theatre Works in Melbourne and Medea at Theater Basel. In dance, she has designed costumes for the productions Complexity of Belonging and Depth of Field by the Australian dance company Chunky Move.
In 2016 Mel Page received the George Fairfax Memorial Award.
