CAMELLIA KOO, SET DESIGNER
Camellia Koo is a Toronto-based set and costume designer for theatre, opera, dance, and site-specific performance installations. Designs for opera include collaborations with Against the Grain, Boston Lyric Opera,
Canadian Opera Company, Edmonton Opera, Helikon Opera (Moscow), Minnesota Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, Santa Fe Opera, and Tapestry New Opera. Designs for theatre include collaborations with
The National Arts Centre, The Shaw Festival, Soulpepper Theatre Company, and Why Not Theatre. She is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University theatre school and
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (U.K.). Camellia has received six Dora Mavor Moor Awards, a 2006 Siminovitch Protégé Prize, the 2016 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award for costume design, and was
most recently named as a 2018 Siminovitch Prize finalist.