Renée is an award-winning set and costume designer. She was Design Director at Queensland Theatre 2020-2021, was a member of Queensland Theatre’s National Artistic Team 2016-2017 and Resident Designer at Sydney
Theatre Company 2012-2014.

Design credits include: for the Opera Conference, Rusalka costume; for Sydney Theatre Company, Stolen, Julia, Grand Horizons, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, costume design for The Seagull, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Playing Beatie Bow; for Melbourne Theatre Company, Is God Is (with Sydney Theatre Company), Home I’m Darling, Arbus & West; for Griffin Theatre, Dogged, Superheroes, Prima Facie, Rice, The Bleeding Tree; for Bell Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet; for Queensland Theatre Company, Round the Twist, Gaslight, Boy Swallows Universe, Return to the Dirt, Mouthpiece, Triple X (with Sydney Theatre Company), Nearer the Gods; for Brisbane Festival with QPAC, Love Stories; for La Boite Theatre, As You Like It, Ruben Guthrie, I Love You Bro.

Renée has won four Sydney Theatre Awards: Best Stage Design of a Mainstage Production for Stolen and The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and Best Costume Design of a Mainstage Production for Stolen and Top Girls. Renée won a Matilda Award for Best Design for Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness. She has also received a Helpmann Award nomination for Best Costume Design for Harp in the South.