The Australian Production Design Guild (APDG) has announced the nominees for the 2026 APDG Awards. The awards celebrate excellence in both screen and live performance productions, recognising achievements in production design, lighting, costume, art direction, graphic and visual design.

Veteran costume designer Jennifer Irwin has earned two nominations for the Jennie Tate Costume Design for a Live Performance or Event Award – for her work on Opera Australia and Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour’s Guys and Dolls and Sydney Dance Company’s Unungkati Yantatja – One with the Other. Fellow OA costume designer David Fleischer has also earned a nod for Turandot.

The cast of Phar Lap: The Electro-Swing Musical. Photo © John McRae

Sydney-based set designer Hailley Hunt has earned two nominations in the Set Design for a Live Performance or Event Award for her work on Phar Lap: The Electro Swing Musical and Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown, both staged at Hayes Theatre. Also nominated is Dan Potra for State Opera South Australia’s The Magic Flute and Keerthi Subramanyam for Belvoir St Theatre’s The Wrong Gods.

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