Kat Chan

Kat Chan

Set Designer, Costume Designer

Kat Chan (she/her) is an award-winning theatre designer for theatre, dance, video installation and photography, living and working on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people. Originally trained as an architect, Kat has worked in practices in Adelaide and Tokyo before returning to Australia to study Master of Production Design at VCA. 

Malthouse Theatre: Costume Designer for Monsters and Because the Night. Other Theatre: Set & Costume Designer for English and I Wanna Be Yours; Costume Designer for Admissions, Touching the Void, Lifespan of a Fact, Torch the Place and Beached; and Associate Designer for Golden Shield (Melbourne Theatre Company); Set & Costume Designer for From Silence; Set Designer for Raymonda Act III; and Costume Designer for Annealing (The Australian Ballet);  Set & Costume Designer for Mother (IF Theatre / Belvoir); and Set & Costume Designer for The People’s Currency (Asia TOPA Fed Square / 4A Centre of Contemporary Asian Art).
Drawings of Kat’s costume designs are also featured in the archives of the Beleura House Collection.  

Kat won a Green Room Award for Outstanding Costume Design for The Lifespan of a Fact and has tutored Performance Design at the Victorian College of the Arts. 
She is a recipient of the Trina Parker Scholarship, Sir George Tallis Design Award, Noel Pelly Fund Travel Scholarship, has been artist in residence at the Lock-Up Cultural Centre, participant of the Women in Theatre Program at Melbourne Theatre Company and former Co-Chair of the Green Room Awards Theatre Companies panel. 

Shows worked on

Current as of April 2025

Kat Chan has worked with...

Matthew Lutton

Matthew Lutton

Worked with on Monsters and 1 other

Rodney Afif

Rodney Afif

Worked with on Because the Night

Bridget Balodis

Bridget Balodis

Worked with on Because the Night

Kamarra Bell-Wykes

Kamarra Bell-Wykes

Worked with on Because the Night

Annie Bourke

Annie Bourke

Worked with on Because the Night

Syd Brisbane

Syd Brisbane

Worked with on Because the Night

Ra Chapman

Ra Chapman

Worked with on Because the Night

Marco Cher-Gibard

Marco Cher-Gibard

Worked with on Monsters

Marco Chiappi

Marco Chiappi

Worked with on Because the Night

Tia Clark

Tia Clark

Worked with on Because the Night

Tahlee Fereday

Tahlee Fereday

Worked with on Because the Night

Dale Ferguson

Dale Ferguson

Worked with on Because the Night

J. David Franzke

J. David Franzke

Worked with on Because the Night

Lyndall Grant

Lyndall Grant

Worked with on Because the Night

Rosalind Hall

Rosalind Hall

Worked with on Monsters

Suzanne Heywood

Suzanne Heywood

Worked with on Because the Night

Samantha Hines

Samantha Hines

Worked with on Monsters

Marg Horwell

Marg Horwell

Worked with on Because the Night

Emme Hoy

Emme Hoy

Worked with on Monsters

Artemis Ioannides

Artemis Ioannides

Worked with on Because the Night

Paul Jackson

Paul Jackson

Worked with on Monsters

Khisraw Jones-Shukoor

Khisraw Jones-Shukoor

Worked with on Because the Night

Keegan Joyce

Keegan Joyce

Worked with on Because the Night

Stephanie Lake

Stephanie Lake

Worked with on Monsters

Amelia Lever-Davidson

Amelia Lever-Davidson

Worked with on Because the Night

Belinda McClory

Belinda McClory

Worked with on Because the Night

David Miller

David Miller

Worked with on Because the Night

Nicole Nabout

Nicole Nabout

Worked with on Because the Night

Natasha Noel

Natasha Noel

Worked with on Because the Night

Lisa Osborn

Lisa Osborn

Worked with on Monsters

Kurt Pimblett

Kurt Pimblett

Worked with on Because the Night

Lyndie  Li Wan Po

Lyndie Li Wan Po

Worked with on Because the Night

Mark Pritchard

Mark Pritchard

Worked with on Because the Night

Cecily Rabey

Cecily Rabey

Worked with on Because the Night

Ras-Samuel

Ras-Samuel

Worked with on Because the Night

Maria Theodorakis

Maria Theodorakis

Worked with on Because the Night

Jennifer Vuletic

Jennifer Vuletic

Worked with on Because the Night

Cointha Walkeden

Cointha Walkeden

Worked with on Because the Night

Josie Weise

Josie Weise

Worked with on Monsters

Alison Whyte

Alison Whyte

Worked with on Monsters

Kimball Wong

Kimball Wong

Worked with on Monsters

Matilda Woodroofe

Matilda Woodroofe

Worked with on Because the Night

Marline Zaibak

Marline Zaibak

Worked with on Because the Night

Harvey Zielinski

Harvey Zielinski

Worked with on Because the Night