Hayley Nebauer is a costume designer renowned for creating richly detailed, emotionally resonant worlds for film and television. With over 20 years’ experience, she combines bold creative vision with expert project management, balancing storytelling, character, and production realities with ease.

Her TV credits include the 2024 Disney+/Hulu drama Black Cake (BAFTA Cymru-nominated), BBC’s cult series Doctor Who, the 17th Century drama The Musketeers, and NBC Universal’s conspiracy thriller The Capture. Feature films include Prizefighter (Russell Crowe, Ray Winstone), Close (Noomi Rapace), A Lonely Place to Die (Melissa George), All Things to All Men (Gabriel Byrne, Toby Stephens), Doghouse (Stephen Graham), and many others.

Alongside contemporary drama, Hayley excels in historic and period costume design, as well as futuristic and speculative storytelling. She blends meticulous research with creative reinvention, producing costumes that are both authentic and surprising. A natural world-builder, she uses costume to define societies, character groups, and hierarchies, while giving individuals visual tools to reveal, conceal, or subvert their identity. Colour, texture, silhouette, and ornamentation are central to her approach.

Originally from Australia and based in the UK since 2005, Hayley has worked across Europe, North Africa, the Caribbean, and South America. Growing up in Tasmania with a fascination for costume history and science fiction, she often employs a 'Hybrid Design' method, combining historical richness with contemporary or contrasting aesthetics. Many of her productions feature custom-made costumes tailored to story, world, and character.

Future-focused and sustainability-minded, Hayley owns an extensive private collection of contemporary and designer clothing and costume, which she draws upon in productions where appropriate, offering creative depth while reducing environmental impact.

Her work combines imaginative design with organisational rigour. As a collaborative department lead, she manages teams, budgets, and schedules with clarity and calm, delivering ambitious creative visions that are production-ready. Whether crafting a period epic, contemporary drama, or speculative world, Hayley creates costumes that are narratively precise, visually striking, and creatively bold.