Charlie Lee



    Production DesignEmile Is Missing

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    I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live, work, and create. I pay respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. Always was, Always will be Aboriginal Land. 

    About Me



    Charlie Lee is a performance designer, artist, and writer from Aotearoa working across dance, textiles, costume making and research. Led by queer/trans* ecological methodologies and aesthetics of collapse, they make work which sits in precarious balances, and feelings of anticipation. They are interested in how design, text, and materials can act as choreographic agents, and problematise totalising understandings of the body and world.

    Charlie was part of the Emerging Writers Program at Seventh Gallery in 2024 and continues to co-facilitate a Trans Ecology reading and project group. Their writing has formed as a means of articulating and expanding the atmospheric effects of performance as a medium for desire, futurity, and alterity. You can find their words in Going Down Swinging, and ‘Texting Images,’ a joint programme between Blindside Gallery and the Emerging Writers Festival. 

    In 2025 Charlie created ‘Camopanises,’ their first choreographic project supported by Dancehouse. They are part of Glass Bricks, a new film collective for the weird and cybernetic. Recent design projects include ‘Reqiuem’ (Lucy Eidelson, 2025), ‘Mis O’ the Mountain’ (Jessie Monk, 2025), Diagrammatica (Jason Maling, 2025), and Sam Carson’s film ‘Emile is Missing’ (2024). Charlie holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production) from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) where selected design credits include ‘Time Under Tension’ with Luke George (2024) and devised work ‘Angelfood’ (2023). 




    DESIGN & MAKING


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    2022     Camopansies, by Charlie Lee, Dancehouse / Design, Concept, Choreography
    Requiem, by Lucy Eidelson, Meat Market / Costume
    Diagrammatica, by Jason Maling, RISING Festival / Host & Costume Production
    Mis O’ The Mountain, by Jessie Monk, Dancehouse / Costume
    Pulau (Island), Chor. Melanie Lane, AsiaTOPA / Costume Production for Eugyeene Teh

    (Un)Tethered, Chor. Luke George, VCA / Spatial & Costume Design
    Vacations in America by Will Palazzo / Production Design (Music Vid)
    Emile Is Missing by Sam Carson / Production Design (Film)
    Tesselate-topia Roaming Axolotls / Costume
    Everybody by Brendan Jacobs-Jenkins, Dir. Isabella Vadiveloo, VCA / Costume
    As Things Go by Jacqui Maida / Costume & Development

    I'll Explain It All To You Later, Victorian College of the Arts / Costume & Devising
    Air Hunger, Abbotsford Convent / Costume
    //command_shift ^break, MUDFEST / Costume
    The Wilde Kind, Midsumma Festival & Fringe / Set and Costume

    The Schgooks of Flughm, MUSE Festival / Set and Costume
    Seven Seconds, MUSE Festival / Set and Costume
    HAML3T, UniMelb Shakespeare Society / Co-Set Design


    ART & PERFORMANCE


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    2020     Camopansies, Dancehouse / Choreography, Performance
    Camopansies, QUALITY Gallery / Performance
    A most glorious tree made of glitter pendants and phthalate jewels, Super New Year / Performance
    Stonefruit / Performance

    Thread of by Body, Thread of my Bed, Unassigned Gallery, cur. Phoebe Greaves / Group
    The Lygon Street Art Show, cur. Margot de Gier / Group

    The Small-ish Art Prize, Nabe Studios / Group

    Quakes in Mind, George Paton Gallery / Solo Exhibition

    Cabinet of Curiosities, National Library of Aotearoa / Group



    BACKSTAGE & MORE


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    Trans* Ecology Club, held at Terrain Bookstore / Co-Faciliator

    Possum Magic, Australian Ballet School / Costume Assistant (Internship)
    MUSE Festival, Victorian College of the Arts / Production Manager
    Little Women, Victorian College of the Arts / Costume Assistant & Dresser
    The Wilde Kind, Midsumma Festival / Stage Manager

    EMILIA, Arts Centre Melbourne / Costume Assistant
    Theatrum Botanicum, VCA Dance / Set Construction
    HAML3T, UniMelb Shakespeare Society / Assistant Stage Manager

    ROXY, WITCH Aotearoa / Costume Assistant
    Sweeny Todd, WITCH Aotearoa / Costume Assistant + Dresser
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Wellington Repertory / Dresser


    EDUCATION


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    2021    Yellow Wheel Dance Company

    Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production) / The Victorian College of the Arts*
    Internships with Andrew Treloar, Eugyeene Teh, APHIDS, Jason Maling and M’ck McKeague

    SEVENTH Gallery Emerging Writers Programme

    Special FX Makeup / Toi Whakaari Summer Workshop