Kate Hawley

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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. 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. In 1996, she attended the Motley Theatre Design Course in London. Hawley began her career in theatre and opera productions and later moved into costume design for film. In 1993 Hawley won Costume Designer of the Year at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. She has taught at Toi Whakaari, the New Zealand Drama School. 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. Costume design for the opera The Trial of the Cannibal Dog (composer Matthew Suttor, librettist John Downie, director Christian Penny, conductor Peter Scholes, producer New Zealand Festival) and set and costume design of Hansel and Gretel, a Royal New Zealand Ballet production choreographed by Loughlan Prior. In 2007, Hawley was the production designer of the New Zealand Opera production of Lucia di Lammermoor. In film, Hawley has worked for Peter Jackson on The Lovely Bones and with Guillermo Del Toro on The Hobbit, Pacific Rim, and Crimson Peak. She designed the costumes for Edge of Tomorrow (2014), the 2016 movie Suicide Squad, and Mortal Engines, directed by Christian Rivers. In 2016, Hawley was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Costume Design for her work on Crimson Peak. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kate Hawley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.