Kate Hawley

The feature film credits of Kate Hawley include Doug Liman and Christopher McQuarrie's All You Need Is Kill, which starred Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt and Bill Paxton, for Warner Bros. Hawley first collaborated with Guillermo del Toro on the Warner Bros. and Legendary action/sci-fi production Pacific Rim, as well as the Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema production of all three The Hobbit films. Hawley worked with Peter Jackson on an untitled DreamWorks project as well as his 2009 film The Lovely Bones. Other film credits include George Miller's Justice League (as costume supervisor) and the Gaby Dellal films On a Clear Day and The Ride.

For television, Hawley designed the costumes for Castle of Lies, T-Dance, Bring Me Your Love, Sleeping with the Fishes and the Disney/Disney Channel production of The Haunted House.

Hawley's theater and opera credits include productions of The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, for the New Zealand International Arts Festival; Luca Di Lammermoor, at the NBR New Zealand Opera; The Love of the Nightingale, for the Western Australian Opera; The Blonde, The Brunette and The Vengeful Redhead, for the Auckland Theatre Company; Alice in Wonderland, presented at Venice, Italy's The Danielli; Blithespirit, at the Salisbury Playhouse; and La Boheme, at the Wexford Opera Festival. In addition, Hawley served as costume and production designer for La Tete, which was presented at the Royal National Theatre Studio, and as production designer for Albert Herring at the Aldeburgh Festival.

Hawley's designs have also been presented at numerous exhibitions in London, including the Motley Theatre Design Exhibition at the Royal National Theatre, the Frantisek Zelenka Exhibition at Central St. Martins and at the Barbican. In Prague, Hawley had her designs on display at the International Scenofest Exhibition.

Hawley's awards include the Gold Key Award from the Bretislav Film Festival, for her designs for the Channel 4/BBC production of T-Dance; the Queen Elizabeth 2nd Arts Council Award for Opera Studies; the Prague Quadrennial 99 Award for Emerging Young Artists; and the Television New Zealand Young Achievers Award.

Hawley was educated at the Wellington School of Design in New Zealand, where she earned a degree in graphic design. She attended London's Motley School of Theater Design on a Television New Zealand scholarship award and completed training in stage drafting at the Royal Opera House in London.

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