Costume Designer
Catherine Fay
MARS, Madama ButterflyBiography
Catherine Fay is an award-winning Costume Designer for Theatre, Dance and Opera. Her previous designs for the Irish National Opera include: Jennifer Walshe and Mark O’Connell’s MARS, Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Richard Strauss’s Elektra and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Recent credits include The Crucible (West End/National Theatre), The Boy, Emma, Grania, The Quare Fellow, Somewhere Out There You, Translations, Portia Coughlan, iGirl, 14 Voices from the Bloodied Field and Our Few and Evil Days (Abbey Theatre), Piaf, Romeo and Juliet and The Threepenny Opera (Irish Times Theatre Award nomination) (Gate Theatre), The Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre/ Lyric Hammersmith), Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Blackwater Valley Opera Festival), The United States vs. Ulysses (Once O! Productions/Irish Arts Centre NYC/ Pavilion), Making History and GATMAN! (Cork Everyman), Gold in the Water (Project Arts Centre/ Mermaid), Outrage, Embargo and The Treaty (Fishamble), Breaking Dad(Landmark Productions, Irish Times Theatre Award nomination), GLUE (Rough Magic), Näher...nearer, closer, sooner, 12 Minute Dances, Totems (Liz Roche Company), Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses, Britten’s Owen Wingrave and Handel’s Semele (Opera Collective Ireland), Handel’s Acis and Galatea (Opera Theatre Company), The Importance of Nothing (Pan Theatre Company), Owen Wingrave (Opéra national de Paris), Girl Song and Dogs (United Fall, Winner Best Production and Best Design for ABSOLUT Fringe Festival).
October 2025