Katja is a production designer/ maker (BA Hon Theatre Design Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design London) and artist currently based in the Illawarra NSW.

She has worked on a wide range of projects in film, performing and visual arts as well as in events. She loves making with her hands as much as designing and has a strong background as a costume props maker (The Chronicles of Narnia, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Lion King, Priscilla and more).

Costume props also eventually led to a high specialisation in leather craft and setting up her own leather atelier Kattasche in 2019.

As a designer she is drawn to new and/or site specific work and projects that happen on the fine line between theatre, performance art and installation. 

Australian companies and places that have shaped her practice include Belvoir, Tamarama Rock Surfers, Darlinghurst Theatre, Legs on the Wall, Stalker Theatre/ Box of Birds, Shopfront Theatre, De Quincey Co, Merrigong Theatre Company, Sydney Festival, Bundanon Trust, the Australian Maritime Museum and Old Parliament House. Overseas credits include production designs for Studiobuehne Berlin and Artisti Senza Frontiere in Italy.

She currently has ‘The Seven’ with Merrigong Theatre Company, ‘Dead Horse Gap’ with Crimson Rosella Creative Adventures, ‘Small Blue Thing’ with Box of Birds/ Stalker Theatre and ‘VIV!’ by Catherine McNamara in development for presentation in 2026 and 2027.

Please contact me for a full CV.