Ishan Vivekanantham is a set and costume designer specialising in creating visually striking and immersive worlds for live performance.

A graduate of the Master of Production Design at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), his work includes I Love you Faustus (Unspooled Theatre Collective), Twelfth Night (Melbourne Shakespeare Company), The Lyrebird’s Voice (Victorian Opera) and The Australian Ballet’s Storytime: Cinderella (dir. David McAllister). His craft has been recognised with the Cassidy Bequest – Production (2022) and Trina Parker (2023) scholarships for design excellence.

In 2025, he joined the Melbourne Theatre Company as a part of the Future Creatives program and was awarded the inaugural Truscott Prize, supported by the Victorian Opera, Truscott Design Foundation and the VCA, acknowledging his dedication and passion for theatrical design.