Designing for Disney

CAN you imagine creating the costumes for 6000 individual performers? Or just one costume for a horse? Well, those are the sorts of brief Australian designer Janet Hine has filled. Whether for theatre, film, TV or huge arena spectaculars, Hine has done them all – and probably at their most extreme.

Hine is a freelance theatrical costume designer whose career has spanned more than 30 years. In that time she has crafted costumes for (series 1–4 in Australia), musicals including Disney’s and , and arena productions for mammoth events such as the 2018 Commonwealth Games Opening on the Gold Coast and Asian Games in Doha in Qatar in 2006 (with 6000 which opens in Sydney in July, 2020. In this role she liaise with the original creative team from the Broadway production and oversee the costume, wig and make-up departments.