Elizabeth Whiting

In 2019 Whiting designed costumes for Delicious Oblivion (Auckland Live Cabaret Season), Joan and The Daylight Atheist (Auckland Theatre Company), and The Fibonacci, choreographed by Victoria Columbus for The New Zealand Dance Company).

In 2018 Whiting designed costumes for La bohème (New Zealand Opera), The Cherry Orchard and Shortland Street – The Musical (Auckland Theatre Company) and Here Lies Love (Silo Theatre).

Whiting won the 2010 Chapman Tripp Theatre Award Costume Design Award (for The Arrival, at Red Leap Theatre) and represented New Zealand at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in 2003 and 2007. In 2021 Whiting won an inaugural Out of the Limelight Theatre Award, from the Sir Roger Hall Theatre Fund and managed by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.

Whiting has designed costumes for Auckland Theatre Company, Silo Theatre, Black Grace, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Pop-Up Theatre London for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and six years of World of Wearable Art. Theatre shows Whiting has worked on include Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and directed by Raymond Hawthorne at the Sky City Theatre, Auckland (2000), My Name is Gary Cooper by Victor Rodger at the Maidment Theatre, Auckland, (2007) and Angels in America by Tony Kushner and directed by Shane Bosher at Q Theatre, Auckland (2014).

Elizabeth Whiting (born 1952) is a stage costume designer from New Zealand.

Whiting was born in the capital city of New Zealand, Wellington, in 1952. Whiting trained under designer Eve Schlup at Auckland's Theatre Corporate. Her first costume designs were for Limbs Dance Company (late 1970s to mid-1980s) and she has costumed New Zealand Opera since 1995.