Eloise Kazan

Eloise Kazan is an award-winning scenic, costume, and production designer and illustrator whose international career spans more than seventy productions across opera, theatre, dance, and film. She studied Fine Arts at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City and completed postgraduate studies in design at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK.

With a particular affinity for period and fantasy worlds, darker themes, and visually rich storytelling, Kazan enjoys blending historical and cultural references with unexpected contemporary elements, developing original concepts in close collaboration with directors and creative teams.

Kazan received the Gold Medal for Best Costume Design at the Prague Quadrennial (2007) and First Prize for Costume Design at World Stage Design (2025). She has also served on international juries for the Prague Quadrennial (2015) and World Stage Design in Taipei (2017) and Calgary (2022).In 2025 she won the First Prize in Costume Design at World Stage Design 2025 for The Last Dream of Frida and Diego, a San Francisco Opera and San Diego Opera production.

Her theatre credits include costume design for A Soldier in Every Son, directed by Roxana Silbert for the Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford-upon-Avon, 2012), and the critically acclaimed The Good Canary, directed by John Malkovich (Mexico, 2008). Her work also extends beyond the stage, including costume design for Let’s Play, a theatrical event for the fashion house Hermes Paris, and production design for the independent feature film Split, directed by Deborah Kampmeier (2016).

Kazan has worked extensively in opera, most notably designing costumes for El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego, directed by Lorena Maza, presented at San Francisco Opera and San Diego
Opera (2022), LA Opera (2024), Opera Omaha (2025), and Lyric Opera of Chicago (2026), with an upcoming production at Seattle Opera (2027). Her opera credits also include Macbeth,
Jenufa, and Rusalka for Opera de Bellas Artes in Mexico, with Rusalka subsequently presented at Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires (2017). She designed both sets and costumes for Cosi fan tutte at the Mozart Festival in A Coruna, Spain, and costumes for Winterreise, directed by Yoshi Oida (2007), and Le Nozze di Figaro for the Croatian National Opera (2016).