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Fiona Leach

You would have seen Fiona’s recent costume designs if you were in the audience for local productions of Sweet Charity, Lend Me a Tenor, Present Laughter, The House of Bernarda Alba, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Hay Fever, Spamalot, Holding the Man, My Fair Lady, The Adventures of Priscilla – Queen of the Desert, Mamma Mia, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Absurd Person Singular, The Little Mermaid, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kinky Boots, Mary Poppins (CAT Award 2015), The World Goes Round, Once Upon a Mattress, 42nd Street, 12 Angry Men, Shrek (CAT Award 2018), Alice in Wonderland, Radio on Repertory, Les Misérables, The History Boys, The 39 Steps and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll – to name a few!

In 2025 Fona received an Ovation Award for Costume Design for Musical of Musicals – The
Musical. In 2024 she received 2 Ovation awards: Costume Design in theatre for Five Women
Wearing the Same Dress, and Costume Design in Musical Theatre for The Boy from Oz.

In 2022 she received the Ovation award in Costume Design for The Importance of Being Ernest, and also
an Australia Day Achievement Medallion (2022) from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, for contribution to the arts as a volunteer costume designer who has created costumes for over 50 amateur and semi-professional theatre shows in the Canberra region over the last 20+ years.

In 2017 Fiona received a Silver CAT (Canberra Area Theatre) award in recognition of her achievements in costume design.

Fiona is proud to be a member of the Free-Rain family. Designing and creating costumes provides a creative outlet and allows her to meet and work with extremely talented production teams, cast and crew. Fiona is especially appreciative of the friendships formed through the volunteer sewing team.

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