Originally from Sicily, Valentina Gambardella is a costume designer and costume maker located in Ireland. She works across theatre, opera, dance, circus and with musicians.
Valentina is a Lecturer of Costume and Makeup Design at the Munster University of Technology. She is a committee member of the Irish Society of Performance Designers and a member of the board of directors of the Cork Theatre Collective.
Costume designer credits include Infinity (Cork Arts Theatre), CONNIE (Theatre Royal), The Beacon (The Everyman, Cork), The Second Woman (Cork Midsummer Festival), Shades Through a Shade (Gare St Lazare), Grace (Dublin Theatre Festival), The Summer I Robbed a Bank (The Everyman, Cork), Home Sweet Home (Suisha Arts), The Weight (Centre Cultural Irlandais), The Magic Flute (Cork Opera House), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Squared), The Glass Menagerie (The Everyman), Contact (Corcadorca), The Small Things (Corcadorca) and How It Is (Gare St.Lazare).
Valentina holds a First-Class Honours MA in Media Studies from Palermo University.