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• Tracy Grant Lord (Tracy Grant)

* 1961, New Zealand
Specialization: set designer, costume designer
Education: Bachelor of Spatial Design, AUT University, Auckland
Collaboration with theatres: Sydney Theatre Co, Auckland Theatre Company, Singapore Dance Theatre, Australian Opera, Australian Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet
Participation in other important exhibitions: WSD Toronto 2005
Continuing collaboration with directors: Pamela Rabe, Simon Phillips, Raymond Hawthorne, Colin McColl, Gary Harris, Janek Schergen
Awards: Winston Churchill Award (1987); Olivier Nomination (UK) 2004
Additional information: Tracy Grant Lord is a leading stage designer of theatre, opera and ballet. Her career began serving a 10 year design apprenticeship at the Mercury Theatre (Auckland) and since then she has worked as a freelance designer with the major performance companies throughout Australasia. She is a Winston Churchill Fellow, has a Bachelor of Spatial Design from Auckland University of Technology and her work has been chosen to represent performance design in New Zealand, at the Prague Quadrennial (Czech Republic) in 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2007. She was also selected to exhibit at the World Stage Design exhibition in Toronto (Canada) in 2005. Highlights of her work include the acclaimed Royal New Zealand Ballet’s 50th Anniversary production of Romeo and Juliet, which premiered at Sadlers Wells in London in 2004. This production then went on to receive an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Dance Production in the UK in 2005. Recent projects include “In The Next Room” (2011) for Sydney Theatre Company, “Sleeping Beauty” (2010) for Singapore Dance Theatre, “Oliver!” (2009) and “Le SUD” (2010) for Auckland Theatre Company and a new festival opera work “Electric” (2011).