​CRYSTALYNE WILLIS​

Crystalyne Willis is a storyteller at heart, captivating audiences with her visually stunning narratives.

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As a set dresser and buyer for film and TV, she excels in infusing spaces with character and history, enriching each scene with carefully curated details.  Her talent for connecting objects with character also drives her passion for stop-motion animation.

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Her theatrical work focuses on performance design; seamlessly integrating design elements into the performance itself.  In her work for "Pacific Blood," she laid sand to represent lines of longitude and latitude, which became increasingly disheveled by the actors' movements, mirroring Captain Cook's deteriorating health, ideologies, and command over his ships.

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A proud Mayan Kiwi, Crystalyne was born in Wellington, New Zealand, with Guatemalan heritage.  She has embraced an international lifestyle; living in New Zealand, Mexico, Venezuela, Japan, the USA, the Czech Republic, the UK, Malaysia, and now Australia.  She studied Performance Design for Stage and Screen at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School and Scriptwriting with a minor in Animation at FAMU in Prague.

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Her recent live-action puppetry film, "Be-Friended," has won 10 film festival awards and received 10 honourable mentions.  Her stop-motion animation "Anything But Eggs" was granted support from the Wellington Emerging Arts Trust and was a semi-finalist at the New York Animation Film Awards.