Collette Pollard

Collette Pollard

(she/her/hers)

Scenic Designer, Sense and Sensibility

In two seasons at OSF: Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, Great Expectations

Other theatres: Regional: Hamlet, A Midsummer Summer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); The Oldest Boy (Marin Theatre Company); A Minister’s Wife (San Jose Repertory Theatre); HIR, The Fundamentals, Between Riverside and Crazy (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Thaddeus and Slocum, In the Garden (Lookingglass Theatre Company); The Hunter and the Bear, Arcadia (Writers’ Theatre); 20-plus productions at The House Theatre of Chicago, where she was a company member, including The Nutcracker, Death and Harry Houdini (remounting at Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami); Geller Girls, Good People, The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Alliance Theatre). International: Joan D’Arc (co-production Goodman Theatre and Linz09, Linz, Austria); Maria Stewart (Linz09, Linz, Austria). 

Awards: Joseph Jefferson Awards (In the Garden, The Front Page). 

Education: MFA, Northwestern University. Teaching: Currently Associate Professor of Design at the School of Theatre and Music, University of Illinois at Chicago.