Gabriela Tylesova

Set and Costume Designer

Gabriela Tylesova is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed designer.

Gabriela’s design work includes: Boomerang and Of Earth And Sky (Bangarra Dance Theatre);  Shakespeare In Love, Twelfth Night, The Pillowman, Tomfoolery, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and URINETOWN (Melbourne Theatre Company);  Ladies In Black (Queensland Theatre); Il Turco In Italia, Cosi Fan Tutte, Baroque Masterworks, Salome, Sweeney Todd, The Rabbits and L’elisir D’amore (Opera Australia); Muriel’s Wedding The Musical (co-production with Global Creatures); A Flea In Her Ear, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, This Little Piggy, Macbeth, Volpone and Attempts On Her Life (Sydney Theatre Company); Sleeping Beauty and Schéhérazade (The Australian Ballet); Love Never Dies (Really Useful Group in Australia, Japan, Germany, US); First Wives Club (Pre-Broadway world premiere in Chicago) and Cinderella (Really Useful Group UK).

Gabriela also designed the sets and costumes for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. She collaborated with David McAllister on a picture book of The Sleeping Beauty (2017).

Gabriela’s designs have won numerous Helpmann, Green Room, Australian Production Design Guild and Sydney Theatre Awards.  Gabriela is designing new ballets for the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada.