Cosette is a Canadian-born Set and Costume Designer for live performance and screen graduated from The National Institute of Dramatic Arts in 2023 - now living in Brussels, Belgium.
Before starting her studies at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia, she pursued her love of cinema and studied film at the University of Sydney for two years during which she was Assistant Set Designer on Drab Majesty’s music video Noise of the Void, directed by Jai Love, and Set and Costume designer for Opera Australia's Imogen-Faith Malfitano’s music video featuring the aria Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante from Bizet's Carmen. During her studies at NIDA, Cosette was mentored by renowned designers including Bob Cousins, Stephen Curtis and Jennifer Irwin - her NIDA design credits include: Costume Assistant for the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opera (2022); Co-Designer of Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera (2022); Set and Props Designer for Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd (June 2023) directed by Constantine Costi; and Costume Designer on Monteverdi's opera L'incoronazione di Poppea, a collaborative production with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music featuring the world premiere of a new score by Elena Kats-Chernin (October 2023), directed by David Berthold.
Cosette’s screen credits also include Costume Assistant and Stylist on Karen Pearlman’s multi award winning short film series Breaking plates and Impossible Image in Sydney, Australia, as well as associate Costume Designer on its set in Toulouse, France (for which it won Best Costume Design at the Exeter Film Festival in 2023). She additionally was the Costume and Set Designer for Parish Malfitano's award-winning short film Worm, and she is a Co-Designer on The Triadic Dance, a reimagining of Oskar Schlemmer's 1922 Bauhaus production, which opened at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in October 2023.
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Costume Design Assistant (An D’Huys)- May-September 2024
‘Werken & Dagen’ (Theatre), Dir. FC Bergman Toneelhuis, Antwerpen, Belgium
Costume Design Assistant (Corina Grămoșteanu)- March-April 2024
‘Salome’ (Opera), Dir. Joël Lauwers Opéra Théâtre de Metz, France
Costume Designer - May-October 2023
‘L'incoronazione di Poppea’ (Opera), Dir. David Berthold, Sydney Conservatorium of Music and NIDA collaboration
Co-Costume Designer - September 2023
‘Triadisches Ballett’, Melbourne Fringe Festival Dir. Texas Nixon-Kain
Set and Props Designer - Febuary-June 2023
‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ Dir. Constantine Costi, NIDA
Set and Prop Design Assistant - November 2022
‘The Artful Dodger’ limited series, Disney Plus Production
Associate Costume Designer- June-July 2022
‘Impossible Image’ short film, Dir. Karen Pearlman (Toulouse France and Sydney Australia), Winner of Best Costume Design - Exeter Film Festival
Design Assistant - April-June 2022
‘Breaking Plates’ short film, Dir. Karen Pearlman
Co-Costume, Set and Prop Designer - August-October 2022
‘The Dollar Opera’ Philip Quast’s Adaptation of Berthold Brecht’s ‘Threepenny Opera’ Dir. John Bashford
Costume and Set Designer - January-April 2022
‘Worm’ Short Film, Dir. Parish Malfitano
Set and Costume Design Assistant - September-October 2021
‘A Midsummers Night Dream’ (Opera), Dir. Kate Gaul
Sydney Conservatorium of Music and NIDA collaboration
Set and Costume Design Assistant - June-July 2021
‘Perfect Stranger’ Dir. Kate Champion Written by Hilary Bell
Set and Costume Designer - May 2020
‘Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante’ Opera Music Video, Dir Parish Malfitano
Assistant Set and Costume Designer - March 2020
‘Noise of the Void’ Music Video for Drab Majesty, Dir. Jai Love