Anna Tregloan is a cross-disciplinary artist and scenographer who creates as a way to explore complex ideas. She has an extensive history in contemporary theatre and dance, opera, live-art, installation art and exhibitions and an emphasis on integrated environmental responsibility. She works collaboratively on live and interactive works alongside her own hybrid practice.
Based on Gadigal land/Sydney she presents and collaborates extensively throughout Australia and internationally. She is an Australia Council Fellow. Her works are held by the Performing Arts Museum, Arts Centre Melbourne, The Powerhouse Museum and Australian Plays Transform (APT) and she is Accredited by the Australian Production Designers Guild (APDG). Her work has been documented in numerous publications.
Past and current collaborators include:- ACMI (The Australian Centre for the Moving Image) // Arts Centre Melbourne // AsiaTOPA // AsiaNOW, South Korea // Back to Back Theatre // Bell Shakespeare // Bundanon Trust // Bureau of Works // Chamber Made Opera // Chunky Move //Circus Oz // Finucane and Smith // Garin Nugroho Studios, Indonesia // Greenroom Music // Griffin Theatre //Intimate Spectacle//The Jewish Museum of Australia // Legs on the Wall // Lucy Guerin Inc // Malthouse Theatre // Melbourne International Arts Festival // Melbourne Theatre Company // Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul // Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS), Sydney // The Performing Arts Museum (ACM) // Papermoon Puppet Theatre, Jogjakarka // Performance Space, Sydney // Polyglot Theatre// Ranter's Theatre // Prague Quadrennial of Performance Space and Design // Science Gallery Melbourne // Substation, Newport // Sydney Chamber Opera // Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras // Sydney Opera House // Sydney Theatre Company
Alongside creating works Anna advises and consults on creative policy, is an experienced grant and application assessor and a curator. She is an occasional mentor and dramaturge.
Awards & Recognition:-
23 awards won across 11 works, with an additional 37 nominations/short-listings across 20 works
The John Truscott Award for Design Excellence: Green Room Awards Association, 2006
Works held by: The Performing Arts Museum, Arts Centre Melbourne, The Powerhouse Museum and Australian Plays Transform (APT)
Accredited by the Australian Production Designers Guild
NSW Creative Industries Resident: Powerhouse Museum, 2019-current
Studio Faire, Nerac France, 2022
Australia Council Fellow: Australia Council for the Arts, Theatre Board, 2011-2012
Asialink Residency: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea, 2014
Positions include:-
Non Executive Board Director: NIDA, 2018-2025
Chair of Academic Board: NIDA, 2020-2025
Curatorial Panel: Performance Space, LiveWorks, 2020 & 2021
Australia Council Peer Assessor: 2015-2018 & 2021-2023
Curator of Australian Exhibit for the Prague Quadrennial of Space and Design: 2015 & 2019
Member, The Live Performance Committee, APDG
Creative Director: The Association of Optimism, 2011-2019
Artistic Advisor: Polyglot Theatre as part of the Artistic Catalyst Group, 2012-2018
Resident Artist: Malthouse Theatre, 2005-2008
Artistic Associate: Store Room Theatre Workshop, 2005-2009
Installations, WRITING, DIRECTION.
+ BELIEF SYSTEM: Co-creator. Immersive installation. Chapter Arts, Cardiff, UK, 2024. Shortlisted for The Blake Prize, 2024.
+ BELIEF SYSTEM: Co-creator. Immersive installation. Substation, Melbourne, 2023.
+ THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT: Creator. A multipart creative archive presented as part of 'A Line, A Web, A World' Exhibition, Powerhouse Museum 2023. Winner, Acknowledgement of Outstanding Advocacy, Victorian Greenroom Awards, 2020.
+ CHILD OF NOW: Installation design. Created with Robert Walton, Claire Coleman, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphreys. Arts Centre Melbourne. Honorary Mention at the S+T+Arts Prize 2023.
+ PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL, AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION: Curator, 2019. Winner Excellence in Design for Performance for Latai Taumoepeau's work, 2019.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT. Shoalhaven Regional Gallery. 2018
+ BETWEEN 8 & 9: Created with Chamber Made Opera. Melbourne, Castlemaine, Chengdu, China. Winner Best Production, Contemporary and Experimental Sound Performance, Greenroom Awards, 2018. Winner Excellence in Experimental Music, APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: Smoke and Mirrors #2 Campbelltown Arts Centre, Fisher's Ghost. Shortlisted Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, 2017.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: Sufficiently Breathless #7. Campbelltown Arts Centre, Fisher's Ghost. Shortlisted Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, 2017.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: Sufficiently Breathless #8 & Smoke and Mirrors #5. The Old Holding Cells behind MAMA, Albury, August 2017.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: AsiaTOPA, Melbourne, February 2017.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: Siteworks Festival, Bundanon Trust, Shoalhaven, NSW, 2016.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: The Substation, Newport, VIC, 2016.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: Carriageworks, The Australian Performing Arts Conference, 2015.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: An Incomplete History #6. Prague Quadrennial of Space and Design, Czech Republic, 2015.
+ THE COLOUR OF THE SKY TODAY: Participatory installation. PQAU, Prague Quadrennial, 2015.
+ HOW HIGH THE SKY: Melbourne Festival/Victorian Arts Centre & Polyglot Theatre. Also presented at Macau Cultural Centre and Hong Kong City Hall, 2015. Installation design and concept.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Goyang Studios, South Korea, 2014.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: An Incomplete History #3. BigCi Artists Space, Bilpin, NSW, 2014.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: Sufficiently Breathless #3. Greenaway Lane, The Rocks for the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, 2014.
+ THE GHOST PROJECT: Smoke and Mirrors #1. Campbelltown Arts Centre, Fisher's Ghost. Shortlisted Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, 2014.
+ 23 MOMENTS OF ABANDON: Gallery Jungmiso, Seoul, South Korea, 2014.
+ THE MARCONI EXPERIMENT: Creator. Participatory Public Art, 2013.
+ HOW HIGH THE SKY: Melbourne Festival/Victorian Arts Centre & Polyglot Theatre, 2012. Installation design and concept. Nominated Age Critic's Award, Melbourne Festival, 2012.
+ RICHARD LOVES RICHARD: Presented as development at Carriageworks. Sydney, 2012. Performance Installation.
+ CAPES AND MASKS#1: Performance Space's Live Works season, 2010.
+ THE DICTIONARY OF IMAGINARY PLACES: Created for Melbourne Festival, 2009.
+ BLACK: Installation and durational performance. Nominated Best Production (New Work), Green Room Award Association, 2007.
+ CONTEMPTUOUS PERPLEXITY: Chunky Move Studios. Melbourne, 2004. Performance Installation.
+ THE LONG SLOW DEATH OF A PORN STAR: Hush Hush Gallery, Melbourne, 2004. Performance Installation.
+ THE CHURCH OF PERPETUAL MOTION: Moomba Tram Parade. Tram installation, 2001.
+ BODY FUNCTION: Dance in public space. Melbourne International Arts Festival, 2001. Creator. Interactive performance using mobile phone technology.
+ MACH: Melbourne International Festival of the Arts/Melbourne Museum. Melbourne, 2000. Performance Installation.
+ SKIN FLICK: La Mama & ArtsHouse (NMTH). February 1999 & July. Melbourne, 2001. Performance Installation. Nominated: Innovation in Form, Green Room Award Association, 2001
+ DODECAPHONIA: Co-creator with Danielle Wilde. Experimental performance events at The Lounge Nightclub
Design for Live Performance
+ HENRY V: Stage and costume design. Bell Shakespeare. Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, 2025.
+ KING LEAR: Stage and costume design. Bell Shakespeare. Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, 2024.
+ MACBETH: Stage and costume design. Bell Shakespeare. Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, 2023. Nominated Best Costume Design, Greenroom Association Awards, 2024 // Nominated Best Costume Design, Live Performance, Australian Production Design Guild Awards, 2024.
+ ROMEO AND JULIET: Stage and costume design. Bell Shakespeare. Sydney, Melbourne, 2023.
+ idk: Stage and costume design. Force Majeure. Sydney, Melbourne, 2023. Winner of Best Multidisciplinary Design, Live Performance and Events, Australian Production Design Guild Awards, 2024.
+ THE THREE MARYS: Stage and costume design. Greenroom Music and Sydney Opera House, 2023.
+ THE LONG PIGS: Set design. We Three. Nominated Best Design (Independent), Green Room Award Association, 2023.
+ HAMLET: Stage and costume design. Bell Shakespeare. Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, 2022. Nominated Best Costume Design Sydney Theatre Awards, 2022 // Nominated Best Set Design Sydney Theatre Awards, 2022.
+ IN A NUTSHELL: Stage and costume design. Bell Shakespeare. Sydney, 2022.
+ THE PLANET: A LAMENT: Stage and Costume Design. Garin Nugroho Studio, AsiaTOPA, Turning world, Amsterdam Festival, Theatre Der Welt, 2020 & 2021. Winner, Best Stage Design APDG awards, 2021.
+ OSCAR AND LUCINDA: Stage and Costume Design. Sydney Chamber Opera, 2020. Nominated Production of the Year, APRA/AMC Art Music Awards, 2020 // Nominated best design collaboration APDG awards, 2021.
+ HAMLET: Stage and Costume Design. Bell Shakespeare. Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, 2020. Nominated Best Design Visualisation, APDG design awards, 2021 // Nominated Best Costume Design, Sydney Theatre Awards // Nominated Best Set Design, Sydney Theatre Awards.
+ THE DIFFICULT COMEDOWN: Costume Design. Paea Leach and Alex Harrison, Dance Massive, Melbourne, 2019.
+ THE LONG PIGS: Set design. We Three, Sydney Festival, 2019. Nominated best design, Independent, Greenroom Awards Association.
+ BABYDOLL & FULLY COMMITTED: Set and costume design. Ensemble, 2019.
+ THE MISER: Set and Costume Design, Bell Shakespeare. Nominated Best Design, Green Room Association Awards, 2019.
+ CERITA ANAK: Polyglot Theatre and Papermoon Puppet Theatre. Installation and costume design. Melbourne, Perth, Jogjakarta, Singapore, Shanghai, New York. 2017-2019.
+ JULIUS CAESAR: Bell Shakespeare. National Tour. Set and costume design, 2018.
+ CERITA ANAK: Co-Concept, Set and Costume Design. Polyglot Theatre. Nominated: Green Room Association Awards – Work for Young Audiences, 2018 // Nominated: Helpmann Awards – Best Presentation for Children, 2017.
+ THE LONG PIGS: Set Design. We Three Arts. Nominated Best Design, Green Room Award Association, 2015.
+ FOOD: Force Majeure & Belvoir Theatre. Set and Costume Design, 2015.
+ THE TALE OF SAMULNORI: Legs on the Wall & Asia Now, Sydney Opera House, Busan Cultural Centre. Set and costume design, 2015.
+ WILD SURMISE: Malthouse Theatre. Set and costume design, 2012.
+ TWELFTH NIGHT: Set and Costume Design. Bell Shakespeare Company, National tour, 2011. Nominated, Best Design, Green Room Award Association.
+ SPRING AWAKENING: Set design. Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney, 2010.
+ MY BICYCLE LOVES YOU: Legs on the Wall, Sydney Festival, Perth Festival. Set and costume design, 2010.
+ OPTIMISM: Set and costume design. Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Festival, Sydney Festival, Edinburgh International festival, 2009.
+ VENUS AND ADONIS: Set and Costume Design. Malthouse Theatre and Bell Shakespeare. Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland, 2008. Nominated, Best Design Greenroom Association Awards // Nominated, Best Design Sydney Theatre Awards.
+ THE TELL-TALE HEART: Set Design. Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Festival, Edinburgh International festival, 2007.
+ HOLIDAY: Set and Costume design, Ranters Theatre. International touring 2007-2009. Winner, Best Design, Green Room Award Association, 2007.
+ CRIMINOLOGY: Set and Costume Design. Arena Theatre Company & Malthouse Theatre. Nominated, Best Design, Green Room Award Association, 2007.
+ ELDORADO: Set and Costume Design. Malthouse Theatre. Nominated, Best Design, Green Room Award Association, 2007.
+ ALIAS GRACE: LaMama and Malthouse Theatre, 2007.
+ THE HIVE: Set and Costume design, Chamber Made Opera. Winner Best Opera Production, Green Room Awards, 2006.
+ KITTEN: Malthouse Theatre, 2006.
+ SLEEPING BEAUTY: Malthouse Theatre, 2006.
+ THE ODYSSEY: Set Design. Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Festival, Perth Festival, 2005. Winner, Best Design, Green Room Award Association // Winner, Best Design, Helpmann Awards.
+ HAM FUNERAL / JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR: Set Design. Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, 2005. Winner, Best Design, Green Room Award Association.
+ GOTHARAMA: Finucane and Smith. Stage design, 2005.
+ ST.KILDA TALES: Ranter's Theatre/Playbox. Melbourne, 2001. Set and Costume Design.
+ ART AND SOUL: Melbourne Theatre Company, 2000. Set and Costume Design.
+ MENTAL: Back to Back Theatre. Melbourne, 1999. Costume design.
+ CIRCUS OZ: Designer of staging, front of house and big top tent. Stage Designs 1997-2001 and collaboration on Big Top Design 2000.
+ THE GAP: Director: Aiden Fennesey. 1996
+ IN VISIBLE INK: Choreographers: Shaun McCloud, Nikki Fletcher. 1995
+ MY BODY, MY BLOOD: Director: Marcea Ferguson. 1994
Design for Exhibitions
+ GODDESS: Exhibition Design. ACMI, Melbourne 2023. The Arts Science Museum, Singapore 2024. Winner Best Exhibition, Time Out Melbourne, 2024.
+ CHAGALL: Exhibition and concept design. The Jewish Museum of Australia, 2023.
+ SWARM: Exhibition Design, Science Gallery Melbourne, 2022.
+ HELMUT NEWTON: Exhibition design. Jewish Museum of Australia. Melbourne, 2022.
+ MIRKA MORA: The Jewish Museum of Australia. Installation design and concept, 2021.
+ THE EMPATHY CLINIC: Exhibition Design, Big Anxiety Festival, 2019.
+ WONDERLAND: Exhibition and Installation Concept Design. ACMI. Melbourne, Singapore, Auckland, Germany. Winner of 2018 Victorian Museums Award // Winner of 2018 Australian Production Designers' Guild Award for Design of a Live Event // Winner of "Best of the GLAMi Awards" for Immersive technology and its integration with curatorial practice // Winner Exhibition Media or Experience: Immersive Category, 2019 GLAMi Award // Commendation for Installation Design, The Australian Interior Design Awards, 2019.
+ PERFECTION: Exhibition Design. Science Gallery Melbourne, 2018.
+ THE MUSEUM OF LOVE AND PROTEST: Exhibition Design. 40th Anniversary Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, 2018.
+ KYLIE MINOGUE: ON STAGE: National Tour 2017-2018.
+ KYLIE MINOGUE: ON STAGE: Exhibition Design. Arts Centre Melbourne, 2016.
+ THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE: Exhibition Design. ACMI. 2016
+ THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE: National Tour, 2016-2019.
+ COLLETTE DINNIGAN UNLACED: Exhibition design. The Powerhouse, MAAS, Sydney. Nominated Best Event Design, APDG, 2016. Commendation for Installation Design, The Australian Interior Design Awards, 2016.