Claire Moloney | Designer

Claire Moloney is an Australian based designer, specializing in set, costume, properties & production design for films, television, stage and events or exhibitions.

Claire’s passion for the arts began with a Bachelor of Design from the College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW majoring in environmental and graphic design. Claire has graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art – Design.

Claire has designed the set and costumes for Love Song (Darlinghurst Theatre), The Love Talker (Parade Playhouse) and co-designed What A Shock N’ Shame (New Theatre), The Love of The Nightingale (Santa Sabina College), Annie, The Musical (Kincoppal Rose Bay).  Claire designed the costumes for Day’s of Significance (Parade Playhouse), Summerfolk (Parade Space), Out of the Blue (Parade Playhouse), Crime Scenes (The Factory Theatre) and Melvyn Morrow’s Shakespearean Idol (The Piano Room).  She also worked on the costumes for the Australia wide tour of Steel Magnolias.  Set designs for the stage include Othello (Parade Studio) and Chloe Dallimore’s musical The Letter.  For Ensemble Theatre, she has designed the set and costumes for The Ruby Sunrise, The Sunset Limited and Absurd Person Singular, the new David Williamson play Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica, and Murders. Claire also designed the opera The Merry Wives of Windsor for the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. At NIDA Claire co-designed and co-presented Aristophanes‚ The Birds, which was successfully received and exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial.

Claire has worked on numerous short films and a number of features in various roles within the design department.  Claire was costume designer on the feature film Cross-Life, premiering at the Sydney Film Festival in 2007.  Since 2004, Claire has been working professionally in the costume departments on the hit musicals West Side Story, Cats, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Musical, The Boy From Oz, The Producers and Dirty Dancing.

Claire’s Awards include the William Fletcher Grant, an Australian Arts Council Grant and numerous photography prizes.