Christina Poddubiuk: Set and Costume Designer

Pacific Opera Victoria
Capriccio
February - March, 2010

Christina Poddubiuk makes her POV debut as designer for Richard Strauss' Capriccio.

Christina Poddubiuk has over 25 years experience as a set and costume designer, mostly in classical theatre for companies such as the Shaw and Stratford Festivals, Soulpepper, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Recent designs include Jean Racine's Phèdre (also for American Conservatory Theater), A Moon for the Misbegotten, Travesties, Ring Round the Moon, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Mary Stuart, Summer and Smoke, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, The Heiress, Major Barbara, and Heartbreak House.

She has received the New York Drama Desk Award, American Theater Wing Award, Tyrone Guthrie, Tom Patterson, and Sterling Awards, and three nominations for the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award for costume design. She is a graduate of McGill University and the National Theatre School.

...let me simply say that when I die, I don't want to go to heaven, unless they promise me it will be designed by Christina Poddubiuk...
Toronto Star, 2007

February 2010