Keerthi (she/her) is a set and costume designer, living and working on the lands of the Gadigal and Gamaragal people of the Eora Nation. Keerthi is a National Institute of Dramatic Art, BFA (Design for Performance, 2019) graduate, and a member of the Australian Production Design Guild.

Keerthi’s work as a set and costume designer includes Belvoir’s Nayika A Dancing Girl and Lose to Win, Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, Murder for Two at Hayes Theatre, Chewing Gum Dreams at the Old Fitz, Chop Chef at Riverside Theatres, and her work as a costume designer includes Belvoir’s At What Cost and Never Closer.

Keerthi has been an associate designer on a wide range of theatre shows including Belvoir’s Jungle and the Sea, Wayside Bride, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Boomkak Panto, Cursed!, Sydney Theatre Company’s Grand Horizons, and Hayes Theatre Co’s Young Frankenstein.

Keerthi’s film credits include working as a design assistant on Operation Buffalo, as production & costume designer on various short films and music videos and most recently as an art director on SBS’s mini series Appetite.

Keerthi is one of Belvoir’s Artistic Associates and has also worked as their props supervisor since 2023.

UPCOMING PROJECTS

THE WRONG GODS |dir: S. Shakthidharan and Hannah Goodwin | Set and Costume Designer
Belvoir St Theatre and Melbourne Theatre Company

BACK TO BILO | dir: Caroline Dunphy | Costume and Props Designer
Queensland Theatre

DETENTION | dir: Randa Sayed | Set and Costume Designer
Monkey Baa

SELECTED CREDITS

2025

SNAKEFACE | dir: Bernadette Fam | Set designer
Belvoir 25A

SONG OF FIRST DESIRE | dir: Eamon Flack, des: Mel Page | Props Supervisor
Belvoir St Theatre

2024

IN THE HEIGHTS | dir: Luke Joslin | Costume Designer
Josh Robson Productions / Sydney Opera House

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY | dir: Eamon Flack, des: Bob Cousins |Props Supervisor
Belvoir St Theatre

2023

MURDER FOR TWO | dir: Richard Carroll| Set and Costume Designer
Hayes Theatre Co

AT WHAT COST | dir: Isaac Drandic | Costume Designer and Set Realiser
Belvoir St Theatre | Queensland Theatre | State Theatre of South Australia | Theatre Royal Hobart

MISS PEONY | dir: Courtney Stewart, des: Jonathan Hindmarsh | Assistant Set and Costume Designer
Belvoir St Theatre

MASTER AND MARGARITA | dir: Eamon Flack, des: Romanie Harper | Props Supervisor
Belvoir St Theatre

INTO THE WOODS | dir: Eamon Flack, des: Michael Hankin | Props Supervisor
Belvoir St Theatre

BLESSED UNION | dir: Hannah Goodwin, des: Isabel Hudson | Props Supervisor
Belvoir St Theatre

2022

SEVEN METHODS OF KILLING KYLIE JENNER | dir: Shari Sebbens and Zindzi Okenyo | Set and Costume designer
Darlinghurst Theatre Company | LaBoite | Malthouse Theatre

AT WHAT COST | dir: Isaac Drandic | Costume Designer and Set Realiser
Belvoir St Theatre

THE JUNGLE AND THE SEA | dir: S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack, des: Dale Ferguson | Associate Designer
Belvoir St Theatre

NEVER CLOSER | dir: Hannah Goodwin | Costume Designer
Essential Workers / Belvoir 25A

CHEWING GUM DREAMS | dir: Bernadette Fam | Co-Set and Costume designer
Green Door Theatre Company / Red Line Productions | Old Fitz Theatre

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT MOULD | dir: Ian Michael | Set and Costume Designer
NIDA

APPETITE | dir: Mohini Hearse and Neil Sharma, des: Fiona Donovan | Art Director
SBS

WAYSIDE BRIDE and LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE | dir: Eamon Flack, des: Michael Hankin | Associate Set Designer
Belvoir St Theatre

GRAND HORIZONS | dir: Jess Arthur, des: Renee Mulder | Design Associate
Sydney Theatre Company

2021

SEVEN METHODS OF KILLING KYLIE JENNER | dir: Shari Sebbens | Set and Costume Designer
Darlinghurst Theatre Company

CHOP CHEF | dir: Kenneth Moraleda & Nicole Pingon | Set and Costume Designer
Blush Opera | Riverside Theatres

BOOMKAK PANTO | dir: Virginia Gay and Richard Carroll, des: Michael Hankin | Assistant Designer
Belvoir St Theatre

AMBITION (short film) | dir: Andrew Cutcliffe | Production and Costume designer
Goose Bridle Productions

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN | dir: Alexander Berlage, des: Isabel Hudson and Mason Browne | Assistant Set and Costume Designer
Hayes Theatre Company

2020

CURSED! | dir: Jason Klarwein, des: Chloe Greaves | Assistant Costume Designer
Belvoir St Theatre

2019

THE HOUSE AT BOUNDARY ROAD LIVERPOOL | dir: Jessica Arthur | Set and Costume Designer
Old 505 Theatre