Mel Page is a set and costume designer for theatre and opera.
Costume designs for opera include: Lear, Médée for Salzburg Festival, Die Tote Stadt for Bayerisch Staatsoper & Theater Basel and Pelleas Et Melisande for Den Norske Opera & Ballet, and set design for Noye’s Fludde for Victorian Opera.
Theatre designs include costumes for Engel in Amerika for Theater Basel, Drei Schwestern for Theater Basel & L’Odeon, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mary Stuart, Les Liasons Dangereuses and Baal for Sydney Theatre Company. Jasper Jones, Ivanov, Kill the Messenger, Seventeen, The Glass Menagerie, A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, Angels in America, Strange Interlude, and The Promise, Elektra/Orestes for Belvoir; The Government Inspector for Malthouse Theatre & Belvoir and LA Pompeii for Malthouse Theatre.
Set & Costume designs include: Medea for Theater Basel, Lethal Indifference for Sydney Theatre Company. Back at the Dojo, Taste of Honey, An Enemy of the People, Small and Tired and Medea for Belvoir. Night Maybe for Theatreworks, Minnie & Liraz and The Apocolypse Bear Trilogy for Melbourne Theatre Company.
Dance designs include costumes for Complexity of Belonging and Depth of Field for Chunky Move and set and costume for Puncture for Legs on the Wall.
Mel was the proud recipient of the 2016 George Fairfax Memorial Award and has been nominated for Green Room and Sydney Theatre Awards.
photo: artist’s archive
