Fiona Donovan completed her first degree in Architecture at Canberra University, before moving to Sydney and taking up a place in the Set and Costume Design Course at NIDA. Since graduating from the NIDA in 1992, Fiona has worked in many genres of film, television and theatre.
Fiona has production designed extensively in both television and film and has been nominated four times for the AACTA Award for Best Production Design in Television for her work on the internationally successful period drama, A Place to Call Home. Fiona also won the APDG Award for Production Design on a Television Drama for Series 6 of A Place to Call Home in 2019. Fiona has also been nominated for an APDG award in 2023 for The Twelve and 2022 for Frayed Series 2.
Most recently, Fiona was the production designer on the upcoming series Silver for Stan, the feature film The Correspondent, prior to this she designed feature Sting and the hugely successful Stan feature Christmas Ransom as well as Back to the Rafters and Between Two Worlds.
Fiona has been art director of several high-profile Australian television series, including the police drama Young Lions, the 22-part ABC legal drama Crownies and the 1960s period comedy-drama Love Child. She has art directed on international film productions including Truth, The Shallows and Pacific Rim Uprising.
Fiona is Council Member of the Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS), Vice President of the Australian Production Design Guild (APDG), Council Member of Creative Workplaces (Creative Australia) and is active on both the screen and awards committees, as well as a professional member of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Televisions Arts (AACTA).