Ensemble Bios

Judith Bowden

This season, Ms Judith Bowden designs both sets and costumes for Misalliance and Helen’s Necklace. In 2011, Judith designed the costumes for My Fair Lady and the set for Maria Severa.

Other Shaw credits include An Ideal Husband, Sunday in the Park with George, Ways of the Heart, Belle Moral: A Natural History (2008/2005), Wonderful Town, The Philanderer, Tristan, The Invisible Man, Gypsy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Harlequinade, Diana of Dobson’s (sets), Afterplay, Merrily We Roll Along, Shadow Play, A Room of One’s Own.

Judith’s recent design credits include set and costume design Seussical for Young People’s Theatre; La Cenerentola (Pacific Opera Victoria). Upcoming: costume design for Music Man, My Fair Lady (Arena Stage); Gone with the Wind (Manitoba Theatre Centre).

Previous design credits include set and costume design for Cloud 9 (Mirvish Productions); Top Girls (Soulpepper Theatre Company); The Clean House, The Goat, Written on Water (Canadian Stage Company); Written on Water, The “Vaudevilles” of Chekhov (National Arts Centre); Proof (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Proof (Citadel Theatre); Peter Pan (The Grand Theatre); Cabaret, Berlin to Broadway (Theatre Calgary); The Doll’s House, The Importance of Being Earnest (Prairie Theatre Exchange). Costume design credits include Pride and Prejudice, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Beauty and the Beast, Einstein’s Gift (The Grand Theatre); The Guardsmen; The Government Inspector (Soulpepper Theatre Company). She has worked on past productions with Alberta Theatre Projects, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Neptune Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company, and Tarragon Theatre.

Judith has been awarded the Virginia and Myrtyle Cooper Award for Costume Design (2007), a Dora Award for Set Design (Blue Planet, Kimsa Theatre for Young People) and three Betty Mitchell Awards for Costume Design. In 2006, she was named one of five finalists for the Siminovitch Prize.