Christopher Read

Christopher Read is a costume designer and a resident cutter with The National Ballet of Canada. Born in Montreal, Quebec and now based in Toronto, Ontario, his 30-year career at The National Ballet of Canada has encompassed many productions of classical works, neoclassical ballets, contemporary works, and world premieres. In addition to building costumes for a wide variety of ballet repertory, opera, theatre and musical theatre he has designed for numerous productions across Canada the U.S. and Australia.

Design credits include costumes for Guillaume Cote’s Dark Angels and Enkeli, James Kudelka’s Desir and Chaconne, Matjash Mrozewski’s A Delicate Battle, Monument, Concordia and Denouement, Pro Arte Danza’s Nine Sentiments, Dominique Dumais’ Collective Sonatas For Two, Robert Stephen’s Passacaglia. Most recently designing costumes for the world premiere of Yuri Possokhov’s “...two united in a single soul...” for the San Francisco Ballet. Christopher has also designed costumes for Canadian figure skater Josée Chouinard and Canadian dance pairs Aaron Lowe and Megan Wing as well as U.S. Olympic medallists Charlie White, Alex Shibutani and Jeremy Abbott.