Takis

(designer)
Takis is an international acclaimed performance designer based in London, whose innovative and diverse body of work encompasses West End and Leading UK Theatre, International Musicals, Opera, Ballet, Circus, Fashion and Commercial productions.

EDUCATION AND WORK
Takis has studied Costume and Set Design at the Romanian National University of Arts in Bucharest (1998–2002) and continued his studies at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on the Theatre Technical Arts Course (2002–2004). He undertook practice-based research at London College of Fashion, researching new methodologies of design in Fashion and Performance (2005–2011) as well as at Aalto University Department of Film, TV and Scenography (2021–2023).

He has worked for companies, including Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Finnish National Opera & Ballet, Frankfurt Opera House, Wexford Opera Festival, Opera Holland Park, The Old Vic, The Barbican, Sadler’s Wells, Rambert Dance Company, Curve, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Theatre Royal Brighton, The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, amongst others.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Edinburgh Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s “Lidless” (2010).
  
A SELECTION OF DESIGNS
Opera
Sullivan’s “H. M. S. Pinafore” (English National Opera, dir. Cal McCrystal, 2021) 
Rossini’s “Le Comte Ory” (Garsington Opera, dir. Cal McCrystal, 2021) 
Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” (Opera Holland Park, dir. Oliver Platt, 2021)
Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” (Finnish National Opera, dir. Jussi Nikkilä, 2020)
Henze’s “Phaedra” (Royal Opera House, dir. Noa Naamat, 2019)
Massenet’s “Don Quixote” (Wexford Opera Festival, dir. Rodula Gaitanou, 2019)  
Verdi’s “Un ballo in Maschera” (Opera Holland Park, dir. Rodula Gaitanou, 2019)
Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta” (Opera Holland Park, dir. Olivia Fuchs, 2019)
Wolf-Ferrari’s “Il Segreto Di Suzanna” (Opera Holland Park, dir. John Wilkie, 2019)
Händel’s “Semele” (Royal Academy of Music, dir. Olivia Fuchs, 2018)
Poulenc’s “Dialogues Des Carmelites” (Guildhall School of Drama & Music, dir. Martin Lloyd-Evans, 2018)
Mascagni’s “Isabeau” (Opera Holland Park, dir. Martin Lloyd-Evans, 2018)
Puccini’s “La Rondine” (Opera Holland Park, dir. Martin Lloyd-Evans, 2017)
Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” (Opera Holland Park, dir. Martin Lloyd-Evans, 2016) 
Monteverdi’s “Ulysses’ Homecoming” (English Touring Opera, dir. James Conway, 2016) 
Cavalli’s “La Calisto” (English Touring Opera, dir. Tim Nelson, 2016)
Händel’s “Ottone” (English Touring Opera, dir. James Conway, 2014)
Haydn’s “Life on the Moon” (English Touring Opera, dir. Cal McCrystal, 2014)

Musicals
Gaudio’s “Jersey Boys” (Chateau Neuf Oslo, dir. Tore Sergei Myklebust, 2022) 
Bernstein’s “West Side Story” (Chateau Neuf Oslo, dir. Mattias Carlsson, 2020/21)
Teigen’s “Optimist” (Chateau Neuf Oslo, dir. Mattias Carlsson, 2019) 
Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (Mercury Theatre/Southwark Playhouse, dir. Tyrone Huntley/Oti Mabuse, 2019 )
Roth’s “Flashdance” (Chateau Neuf Oslo, dir. Mattias Carlsson, 2018)
Coleman’s “Sweet Charity” (Nottingham Playhouse, dir. Bill Buckhurst, 2018)
Jordan’s “Five Guys Named Moe” (Marble Arch Theatre – West End, dir. Clarke Peters/Andrew Wright, 2017)
Bryan’s “The Toxic Avenger” (Arts Theatre – West End, dir. Benji Sperring/Lucy Punkhurst, 2017)
Shaiman’s “Hairspray” (UK & Ireland Tour, dir. Paul Kerryson/Drew McOnie, 2017)
Roth’s “Flashdance” (UK / South-Korea Tour, dir. Hannah Chissick, 2017)
Krieger’s “Side Show” (Southward Playhouse, dir. Hannah Chissick, 2016) 
Sheik’s “Spring Awakening” (Curve Theatre – NYMT, dir. Nikolai Foster, 2016) 
Miranda’s “In the Heights” (Kings Cross Theatre – West End, dir. Luke Shepphard/Drew McOnie, 2015) 
Bart’s “Oliver!” (Curve Theatre, dir. Paul Kerryson/Andrew Wright, 2015) 
Lee’s “The LKY Musical” (Marina Bay Sands Theatre Singapore, dir. Steven Dexter, 2015) 
Jacob/Casey/Farrar’s “Grease” (Haugesund Theatre Norway, dir. Erik Schøyen/Belinda Braza, 2015)
Miranda’s “In the Heights” (Southward Playhouse, dir. Luke Sheppard/Drew McOnie, 2014) 
Rodgers’ “The Sound of Music” (Curve Theatre, dir. Paul Kerryson/Drew McOnie, 2014)
Kander’s “Chicago” (Curve Theatre, dir. Paul Kerryson/Drew McOnie, 2013) 
Bernstein’s “West Side Story” (NYMT – Victoria Warehouse Manchester, dir. Nikolai Foster/Drew McOnie, 2013) 
Kander’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (Arts Ed, dir. Nikolai Foster/Drew McOnie, 2013)
Sondheim’s “Aristophanes” (Now European Tour, dir. Stamatis Kraounakis, 2013)

Dance/Ballet
Kantelinen’s “The Little Mermaid” (Finnish National Ballet, chor. Kenneth Greve, 2015) 
Hodge’s “7-75” (The Place, chor. Amy Hodge, 2015) 
Hurst’s “Reminiscence” (Rambert Dance Company, chor. Dane Hurst, 2013)