STEPHEN CURTIS is a set and costume designer for theatre and production designer for film. His extensive theatre career spans four decades and embraces designs for dance, drama, opera, physical theatre and musicals, including major collaborations with Australia’s leading directors, choreographers, festivals and performance companies. Curtis’ many striking designs for the stage include sets and costumes for Platee (Pinchgut Opera), La bohème, The Cunning Little Vixen and Lulu (Opera Australia), The Turn of the Screw (Huston Grand Opera), Cut the Sky, Shanghai Lady Killer (Stalker Physical Theatre), I Am Eora (Sydney Festival), Pygmalion (Queensland Theatre Company), Henry IV (Bell Shakespeare Company), The Venetian Twins (Nimrod Theatre Company), sets for The Secret River and The Government Inspector (Sydney Theatre Company), The Blue Room, All About My Mother and Tribes (Melbourne Theatre Company), Tell Me I’m Here, The Drover’s Wife and Scorched (Belvoir) and costumes for Der Ring Des Neibelungen (State Opera of South Australia). Curtis’ film production design credits include the features Looking for Alibrandi and Tracey Moffatt’s stunningly visual Bedevil and Night Cries. For many years Curtis has also taught design for theatre and film. He developed the degree and post-graduate curriculum in design for the Australian Film, Television and Radio School where he held the position of Head of Design for four years. For Currency he has published Staging Ideas: Set and Costume Design for Theatre and for Currency Press Platform Paper #45 - The Designer: Decorator or Dramaturg?