Ilona has ten years experience as a freelance costume Designer/constructor.
She opened her own costume and prop hire busniess in 1999 which she ran for eight years.

From 2005 to 2008 she undertook a degree course in "Design for Stage" (both set and costume).

During and since studying, she took every opportunity to work with industry professionals to gain as much knowledge of inter-departmental work as possible. She has learnt to understand the requirements of a nervous actor during fittings, the effect of her work on the other vital elements of design such as lighting and sound, and the needs of a pressured director. The people she has worked with have been impressed by her professional approach and artistic understanding of text and production.


Alongside her design for productions, she still designs and makes costumes for hire and sale, along with constructing props,hats,jewellery,puppets,armour,
'corpses', latex weaponry: the more bizarre the requirement the better.