Gina McLellan Morel, Costume Designer

Gina began working as a costume designer while attending UBC for a degree in Opera Performance where she designed and produced the costumes for numerous productions with the UBC Opera Ensemble, including Orpheus in the Underworld, The Marriage of Figaro, The Gondoliers, La Bohème and Die Fledermaus, as well as Pirates of Penzance with DragonDiva Opera.  Gina has designed the costumes for Burnaby Lyric Opera’s productions of Carmen (2017), The Barber of Seville (2018), L’Elisir D’Amore (2019) and Madama Butterfly (2020) as well as URP’s productions of RENT (2016) and Green Day’s American Idiot (2019).  She is delighted to be part of BLO’s creative team for this production of Pagliacci and Gianni Schicchi.