Costume Designer

Catherine Fay

MARS, Madama Butterfly

Biography

Catherine is an award-winning Costume Designer for theatre, dance and opera. Her previous designs for Irish National Opera include Strauss’s Elektra and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Recent credits include The Crucible (West End/National Theatre), 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 Irish Theatre Award nomination) (Gate Theatre), The Plough and the Stars (Abbey Theatre/Lyric Hammersmith), The United States vs. Ulysses (Once Off Productions/ Pavilion), GATMAN! (Cork Everyman), The Return of Ulysses (Opera Collective Ireland), Britten’s Owen Wingrave (Opera Collective Ireland), Handel’s Semele (Opera Collective Ireland), Handel’s Acis and Galatea (Opera Theatre Company), The Importance of Nothing (Pan Theatre Company), Owen Wingrave (Opera Bastille, Paris), Girl Song and Dogs (

July 2025