Ruby J
NIDA Design for Performance Graduate 2022
Ruby Jenkins is a multidisciplinary designer working across Adelaide and Sydney. Her practice is founded in a rigorous and sensitive collaborative process and design sensibility brings together deep research and understanding with a witty, playful theatricality.
Since graduating from NIDA in 2022, Ruby has been nominated for the 2023 Australian Production Design Guild Award for Emerging Designer for a Live Performance or Event, and the 2024 KXT bAKEHOUSE Award for Design Excellence, for her set designs for Seven Days of Silence and dog respectively.
Ruby’s recent theatre design credits include set and costume design for; Werkaholics dir. Nicole Pingon at Belvoir 25a (Purple Tape Productions, 2025), Misery Loves Company dir. Mathew Lee at KXT (Legit Theatre Co.,2024), dog, dir. Kim Hardwick at KXT (We Are Not Producers, 2024), [BLANK] dir. George Lazaris (NIDA Open, 2023), Banging Denmark! dir. Madeleine Withington at New Theatre, (2023), set design for The Edit dir. Gabrielle Scawthorn at Belvoir 25a (Legit Theatre Co., 2025), costume design for; Chapters 4, 5 & 6 of The Player Kings dir. Damien Ryan at the Seymour Centre (Sport for Jove, 2025), Furious Mattress dir. Margaret Thanos at Belvoir 25a (Legit Theatre Co., 2025) Tell Me on a Sunday dir. Blazey Best at Hayes Theatre Co (Michelle Guthrie Presents, 2024), and Turn Up Your Radio Exhibition as Exhibition Concept Designer/Drafter (Adelaide Festival Centre, 2023). Last year Ruby also worked as the Design Assistant in the Art Department on the hit Netflix television series Heartbreak High last year.
AWARDS:
AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION DESIGN GUILD 2023 EMERGING DESIGNER FOR A LIVE PERFORMANCE OR EVENT - Nominated for Seven Days of Silence
The KXT Bakehouse Award for Design - Nominated for dog.
Skills:
Illustration ( A Flea In Her Ear, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui)
Graphic Design (Say It To My Face, Turn Up Your Radio Exhibition)
Autocad
3D Modelling (Turn Up Your Radio Exhibition)
Concept Art (Kelly, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui)
Model Making (Seven Days of Silence, Bliss)
Storyboard Illustration (Say It To My Face)
2O25
2O24
Credits
THE EDIT (theatre) Set Designer, dir. Gabrielle Scawthorn, presented by Legit Theatre Co. and Unlikely Productions, Belvoir 25a
BRIGHTSTAR (musical), Scenic Artist for Is Hudson set design, dir. Miranda Middleton and Damien Ryan, presented by Sport for Jove Theatre Company, The Hayes
WERKAHOLICS (theatre), Set and Costume Designer, dir. Nicole Pingon, presented by Purple Tape Productions, Belvoir 25a
BABYTEETH (theatre), Scenic Artist, KXT, dir. Kim Hardwick
THE SPARE ROOM (theatre), Casual Design Assistant to Mel Page, Belvoir
THE WINTERS TALE (theatre), Set and Costume Designer, NIDA Acting 2 Heightened Language Project, The Studio NIDA dir. Glenda Linscott
THE PLAYER KINGS (theatre), Costume Designer Chapters 3, 4 and 5, dir. Damien Ryan, presented by Sport for Jove, Seymour Centre.
FURIOUS MATTRESS (theatre), Costume Designer, directed by Margaret Thanos, Belvoir 25a, presented by Legit Theatre Co.
HEARTBREAK HIGH S3 (television), Production Design Assistant to Marni Kornhauser
HEARTBREAK HIGH S3 (television), Production Design Assistant to Marni Kornhauser
NIDA TRIPLE J RAGE PROJECT, Design Student Support
CUT THE SKY VIDEO INSTALLATION, Costume Standby, dir Rachael Swain.
CUT THE SKY (dance), Costume Associate to Stephen Curtis, dir. Rachael Swain, Carriageworks, presented by Marrugeku.
DOG (theatre), Set and Costume Designer, KXT, dir. Kim Hardwick, presented by We Are Not Producers
MISERY LOVES COMPANY (theatre), Set and Costume Designer, KXT, dir. Mathew Lee, presented by Legit Theatre Co.
TELL ME ON A SUNDAY (musical), Costume Coordinator, The Hayes, dir. Blazey Best
BALM IN GILEAD (theatre), Set and Costume Designer, NIDA Acting 3 American Plays Showcase, dir. Ed Wightman
THEY’RE PLAYING OUR SONG (music theatre), Costume Designer, Neglected Musicals, The Hayes, dir. Lisa Callingham
SYDNEY FESTIVAL, Wardrobe Supervisor, Seymour Centre
[BLANK] (theatre), Set and Costume Designer, NIDA Open Actors Studio, The Luminus, dir. George Lazaris
VENUS AND ADONIS (theatre), Wardrobe Assistant, Sport for Jove, dir. Damien Ryan
BANGING DENMARK! (theatre), Set and Costume Designer, New Theatre, dir. Madeleine Withington
LATE BLOOMER (music video), Production Designer, NIDA Triple J Unearthed, dir. Jo Bradly
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (theatre), Costume Designer, Joining the Dots, dir. Nicholas Papademetriou
TURN UP YOUR RADIO (exhibition), Exhibition Concept Designer, Adelaide Festival Centre
MISS JULIE (theatre), Set and Costume Designer, Famous Last Words
CHOIR BOY (theatre), Scenic Artist, Parramatta Riverside, dir. Dino Dimitriadis
KAIROS (dance), Assistant Designer, dir. Meryl Tankard
2O23
KELLY (short film), co-production designer / co-developer, dir. Kathleen Kershaw
HOME (theatre), Student Placement, Patch Threatre, dir. Rosie Brown
FURIOSA (film), Set Decoration Department Assistant, Underdown Productions
‘SAY IT TO MY FACE’ (music video), Production Designer / co-creator, Triple J Unearthed / Rage, dir. Chinmaya Madan
FALSETTOS (musical), Costume Designer, NIDA June Production Season, dir. David Berthold
HOME THOUGHTS (theatre), Set and Costume Designer, Famous Last Words, dir. James Watson
2022
ALMOST, MAINE (theatre), Set and Costume Designer, Flinders University Performing Arts Society, dir. Alana Lymn
THE TWELVE (series), Art Department Assistant (placement), Fox Studios
AN EXTENDED ABSTRACT (short film), co-designer / co-creator
2021
CONTACT:
email: rubyrosejenkins@outlook.com
ph: 0434 824 944