Olivera Gajic

Olivera Gajic (Costume Designer) Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Conference of the Birds (Helen Hayes nomination).
Olivera has designed more than 250theater, opera, dance and film productions. Notably: Salzburg Festival, Austria: Jedermann; American Symphony Orchestra: The Long Christmas Dinner; Vineyard Theatre: God’s Ear; The Juilliard School Drama Division: The Americans and The Greeks; The Juilliard School Opera Division: Don Giovanni, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Le Comte Ory; Pig Iron Theater: Superterrenian, Chekhov Lizardbrain, Twelfth Night; Lake Lucille: Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, Platonov, The Seagull. Film: I am a Seagull. 

Work at other theaters includes productions American Repertory Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Company, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Long Wharf, Two River Theatre Company, Riverside Theatre,  Alabama Shakespeare, Playmakers Repertory Company, California Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Theatre Works, American Stage, among others.Olivera’s work has been shown at exhibitions including the U.S. national exhibit at the 2004, 2007 & 2023 Prague Quadrennial and Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance. Olivera is a recipient of the NEA/TCG CDP for Designers, IT Award for Outstanding Costume Design, TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, Barrymore Award for
Outstanding Costume Design. She recently received the Bessie Award Recipient for Outstanding Visual Design.