Tamara Kucheran

Hailing from Victoria, Tamara Marie Kucheran graduated from UVic in 1997 with a BFA in Design and then moved east to attend the National Theatre School of Canada.

Her career as a set and costume designer has taken her across Canada. In 2008, she received a Dora Mavor Moore award for Outstanding Costume Designer for Intimate Apparel at the Obsidian Theatre Company in Toronto. She has also been nominated for a Dora Award for costumes on Black Medea, and set design for The Teenage Girl Diaries.

In 2005 she returned to UVic’s Department of Theatre as a sessional instructor and also designed the costumes for that elusive spark, which was a new work by Janet Munsil commissioned by the department. She returned that fall as a guest artist to design the costumes for the Phoenix mammoth production Metamorphoses. Tamara returns in 2015 the department as a sessional instructor for the Spring term.

Tamara has designed for companies across Canada including Theatre Passe Muraille, Stratford Festival, Theatre Aquarius, Prairie Theatre Exchange, The Great Canadian Theatre Company, The Belfry Theatre and Theatre SKAM. She was the Associate Designer for the much-acclaimed Belfry/National Arts Centre co-production of And Slowly Beauty... which won the Victoria Critics’ Spotlight Award for Best Set Design.