Elizabeth Whiting
Elizabeth Whiting (born 1952) is a stage costume designer from New Zealand. Career. Whiting was born in the capital city of New Zealand, Wellington, in 1952. Whiting trained under designer Eve Schlup at Auckland's Theatre Corporate. Her first costume designs were for Limbs Dance Company (late 1970s to mid-1980s) and she has costumed New Zealand Opera since 1995. Whiting has designed costumes for Auckland Theatre Company, Silo Theatre, Black Grace, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Pop-Up Theatre London for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and six years of World of Wearable Art. Theatre shows Whiting has worked on  include "Into the Woods" by Steven Sondheim and directed by Raymond Hawthorne at the Sky City Theatre, Auckland (2000), "My Name is Gary Cooper" by Victor Rodger at the Maidment Theatre, Auckland, (2007) and "Angels in America" by Tony Kushner and directed by Shane Bosher at Q Theatre, Auckland (2014). In 2018 Whiting designed costumes for "La bohème" (New Zealand Opera), "The Cherry Orchard" and "Shortland Street – The Musical ("Auckland Theatre Company) and "Here Lies Love" (Silo Theatre). In 2019 Whiting designed costumes for "Delicious Oblivion" (Auckland Live Cabaret Season), "Joan" and "The Daylight Atheist" (Auckland Theatre Company), and "The  Fibonacci," choreographed by Victoria Columbus for The New Zealand Dance Company). Of costume design Whiting says:A good costume clarifies the nature of the play and helps tell the story underlining the themes, setting, social status of the characters and particular quirks they may have concerning their clothing. Awards and recognition. Whiting won the 2010 Chapman Tripp Theatre Award Costume Design Award (for The Arrival, at Red Leap Theatre) and represented New Zealand at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in 2003 and 2007. In 2021 Whiting won an inaugural Out of the Limelight Theatre Award, from the  Sir Roger Hall Theatre Fund and managed by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.