Merle Hensel

Merle works as a Designer for Theatre and Performance internationally in a wide variety of styles and genres.

Costume and Set Design:
Theatre includes: King Lear (set design) (Almeida/ West End); Streetcar named Desire (costume design) (Almeida); The House of Bernarda Alba; Under Milk Wood; Top Girls; Protest Song (National Theatre); Cock (West End); All of It; The Glow; Ear for Eye; a profoundly affectionate passionate devotion to someone (-noun) X, The Mistress Contract (Royal Court); Enemy of the People (Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis); Macbeth (costume design);The Shawl (Young Vic); Arden of Faversham (RSC); Macbeth (National Theatre of Scotland/Lincoln Center/Broadway/Japan tour); Green Snake (National Theatre of China); Glasgow Girls (& national tour); 27; The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland); Shun-Kin (Theatre de Complicite); Diener Zweier Herren (Schlosstheater, Vienna); Ippolit (Sophiensaele/ Schauspielhaus Zürich/ Münchner Kammerspiele) and Der Verlorene (Sophiensaele, Berlin).

Opera includes: Aida (Royal Danish Opera); Until the Lions (Opéra National du Rhin); Maria Stuarda (Vereinigte Bühnen, Mönchengladbach/Krefeld); Der Vetter Aus Dingsda (Oper Graz); Lunatics (Kunstfest Weimar); Münchhausen and Herr Der Lügen (Neuköllner Oper, Berlin).

Dance includes: The Barbarians In Love (costume design); Sun; Political Mother (Hofesh Shechter Company); Il Combattimento; Contagion (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance); 8 Minutes (Alexander Whitley Dance Company); Lovesong (Frantic Assembly); James Son Of James; The Bull; The Flowerbed (Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre); Justia and Park (set design) (Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company).

Film includes: Morituri Te Salutant and Baby.