Gillian Gallow - Teaching artist in Set and Costume Design

Gillian is a set and costume designer based in Toronto, and in 2021 she received the Siminovitch Prize, an award which celebrates transformative and influential theatre artists.   

Gillian has collaborated with theatre companies across the country, most notably with the Canadian Opera Company, designing costumes for the world premieres of Hadrian in 2018 and for Louis Riel in 2017. She has spent many seasons at the Shaw Festival, currently designing set and costumes for The Shadow of a Doubt. Other collaborations include the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Citadel, Theatre Calgary, and The National Arts Centre, to name a few. Upcoming she is designing the set and costumes for tremblements at ESPACE GO and the set for Beautiful at the Segal Centre/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.  

In 2018, Gillian received the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award for Costume design, she’s received four Dora Mavor Moore awards and her work has been recognized across Canada with nominations for Calgary’s Betty Awards, Edmonton’s Sterling Awards, Winnipeg’s Evie Awards, and Ottawa’s Capital Critics’ Circle.    

Gillian is a graduate of York University’s theatre design program.