Born in England, Louise Flanagan trained as a classical ballet dancer, graduating from The Royal Ballet School in 2006. As a student she performed with The Royal Ballet and from 2006-2008 was a dancer at the Vanemuine Theatre, Estonia.
Louise went on to attain a BA (Hons) first-class in Dance and Performance Costumes from Middlesex University and completed a professional dressmaking apprenticeship at the Berufsschule für Bekleidung in Munich, Germany before working as a costume maker on many high profile films, musicals and operas in the UK.
Since 2013, Louise has been working as a costume designer for dance and opera, collaborating with amongst others, the choreographers and directors Dustin Klein, Terence Kohler, Sam Brown, Yuki Mori, Fabien Prioville, Andreas Heise, Peter Leung, Dimo Kirilov Milev, Kinsun Chan, Lillian Stillwell, Paloma Muñoz, Andrew McNicol and Mauro Astolfi for theatres including the Bavarian State Ballet, Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf, Tulsa Ballet, Stanislavsky Ballet Moscow, Theater Regensburg, Vanemuine Theatre, Oper Graz, Theater St. Gallen, Theater Münster and Origen Festival Cultural.
She has also assisted the designer Emma Ryott on ballet productions by Christian Spuck at Ballett Zürich, Staatsballett Berlin and the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, and Yuri Possokhov's The Seagull at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.