Ella Butler

Ella is a Production and Costume Designer for theatre, film and live performance. Informed by her beginnings in theatre, Ella's work has evolved through contrived spaces, searching for the extraordinary found in the everyday. In theatre, Ella’s work as Costume Designer at Belvoir Theatre Company includes Tell Me I'm Here, The Weekend and August: Osage County. Her costumes examine character with an urban melancholy. Productions where Ella has worked as both Set and Costume Designer include The Comeuppance (Red Stitch), Dubbo Championship Wrestling (The Hayes), LOVE (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), First Love Is The Revolution and Wherever She Wanders (Griffin Theatre Company). A highlight in film work, Ella was the Costume and Production Designer for CATSinAM, The Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives, for In Our Own Right; recounting Black Australian Nurses’ and Midwives Stories. In commercial as Production Designer, her clients include Tourism SA, Google, Woolworths, Officeworks and NSW Goverment. Ella is a graduate from the National Institute of Dramatic Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design for Performance).