MEG ANDERSON
NIDA DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE GRADUATE 2022
Meg Anderson She/Her is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist and designer, whose collaborative and responsive practice underpins her work across live performance, stage and screen. Her work prioritises an emotional and intellectual understanding of the text that form liminal and dynamic designs. She provides a unique perspective through her design style, bending boundaries of artistic environments and theatre spaces.
Since graduating from NIDA’s Design for Performance in 2022, Meg has worked on a number of projects in varying design, costume and assisting positions.
Her recent credits include as costume designer: for NIDA: The Seagull; as costume designer and set realiser: for Steps & Holes: Soul Trading; as designer: for NIDA: Festival of Emerging Artists: The Decay of Lying; for Ratcatch Theatre: The Hero Leaves One Tooth at KXT; for Snatched Theatre Collective: Mercury Poisoning; as set dresser: for 5 Eliza: Darkness; as costume supervisor and design assistant: for Love Stages: The Three Marys; and as costume assistant: for Griffin Theatre Company: The Lewis Trilogy.
Meg is also a recipient of the William Fletcher Foundation Tertiary Grant and received the NIDA 2022 Design Excellence Award
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Designer - Carols on the Pier - Concert - Australian Chamber Orchestra
Wardrobe Assistant - School Spectacular 2025 - TV - Designer Tim Chappell
ASM (Dresser and Costume Maintenance) - Fly Girl - Theatre - Ensemble Theatre
Set Designer - Little Women - Theatre - St Catherines School
Set & Costume Designer - Fear and Misery, Trouble in the Works, Victoria Station - Theatre - Sydney Grammar School
Associate Designer - Gardener’s Apprentice - Movement-based Theatre - Force Majeure
Set & Costume Designer - Martin-Lysicrates Prize 2025 - Theatre Excerpts - Martin-Lysicrates Foundation
Set & Costume Designer - Three (Short) Plays - Theatre - Ground Floor Theatre Co. Late Night
Set & Costume Designer - Conscience - Theatre - Joining the Dots Theatre Co.
Set & Costume Designer - Better She Was Never Born - Devised - Flying Nun at Brand X
Set & Costume Designer - The Crucible - Theatre - Sydney Grammar School
Set Designer -The Sound of Music - Musical - Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College
Model Maker - The Talented Mr Ripley - Theatre - Sydney Theatre Company
Costume Assistant - The Princess, the Pea and the Great Escape - Performance - Australian Chamber Orchestra
Standby Dresser - Dancing with the Stars 2025 - TV
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Set & Costume Designer - SHACK - Theatre - Mariain Street Theatre for Young People
Set & Costume Designer - Mercury Poisoning - Theatre - KXT
Costume Assistant - The Lewis Trilogy - Theatre - Griffin Theatre Company
Costume Assistant - How to Catch a Star - Performance - Australian Chamber Orchestra
Costume Supervisor - Tell Me on a Sunday - Musical - Sydney Grammar School
Set Designer - Lord of the Flies - Theatre - St Catherines School
Production Designer - Six Feet Under - Music Video - Katie Reid
Standby Dresser - Schools Spectacular 2024 (All 4 One) - TV - Gravity Media
Standby Dresser - Dancing with the Stars 2024 - TV
Scenic Painter - Flat Earthers - Musical - Hayes Theatre Company
Scenic Painter - Murder for Two - Musical - Hayes Theatre Company
Scenic Painter - Guards at the Taj - Theatre - Riverside Theatre
Scenic Painter - Turn of the Screw - Opera - Hayes Theatre Company
Scenic Painter - Ride the Cyclone - Musical - Hayes Theatre Company
Prop Maker - There is a Sea in my Bedroom - Performance - Australian Chamber Orchestra
Design Tutor - Designing for Character - NIDA - 2nd year Costume
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Set & Costume Designer - Soul Trading - Theatre - Steps & Holes Theatre Co. at ATYP
Set & Costume Designer - The Hero Leaves One Tooth - Theatre - Ratcatch Theatre at KXT
Set & Prop Designer - The Government Inspector - Theatre - St Catherines School
Design Assistant & Costume Supervisor - Three Mary’s - Opera - Presented by Sydney Opera House
Design Assistant - Anna Tregloan - Theatre and Exhibition
Costume Supervisior - Much Ado About Nothing - Theatre - Sydney Grammar School
Wardrobe Dresser - The Masked Singer - TV
Art Assistant - Christmas with Delta - TV - Channel Nine
Scenic Painter - On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - Musical - Seymour Centre
Scenic Painter & Prop Maker - Darkness - Theatre & Installation - The Library, 5 Eliza Street
Prop / Model Maker - Into The Woods - Musical - Belvoir St Theatre
Model Maker - Master and Margarita - Theatre - Belvoir St Theatre
Model Maker - The President - Play - Sydney Theatre Company
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Production Designer - The Decay of Lying - Theatre - NIDA Festival of Emerging Artists
Costume Designer - The Seagull - Theatre - NIDA June Production Season
Production Designer - What Kind of Music do you like to Listen to? - Music Video - Triple J x NIDA
Co. Creator & Co. Designer - Live Portrait - Video Portrait - NIDA
Design Assistant - The Terry’s - Music Video - Triple J x NIDA