Merle Hensel

Costume Designer

Merle Hensel was born in Germany. She trained as a theatre designer at Central St Martins School of Art and Design and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She works internationally in a wide variety of styles and genres.

Theatre credits include: Shun-Kin (Complicite; Setagaya Theatre Tokyo and Barbican London); James Son of James, The Bull, and The Flowerbed  (Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre; Barbican London and Dublin Theatre Festival); Justitia and Park (Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company; Peacock Theatre London and international touring); The Girls of Slender Means (Stellar Quines Theatre Company; Assembly Hall, Edinburgh Festival); Parallel Elektra (Young Vic London); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Corn Exchange; Dublin Theatre Festival); Dienr Zweier Herren (Max-Reinhardt Seminar, Schlosstheater Vienna); Before the Wolf (Open Air Festivals Newcastle and Falkirk); Human Shadows (Underground7; The Place Prize, London); Ippolit (Sophiensaele, Berlin; Schauspielhaus Zürich; Münchner Kammerspiele); Der Verlorene (Sophiensaele, Berlin); Kupsch (Deutsches Theater, Göttingen); Maria Stuarda (Vereinigte Bühnen, Mönchengladbach/Krefeld); Der Vetter aus Dingsda (Oper Graz); Münchhausen, Herr der Lügen (Neuköllner Oper, Berlin).

Film credits include: Morituri te Salutant and Baby (Phillip Stölzl)

Merle is a lecturer at Central St Martins School of Art and Design in London. Other teaching includes Rose Bruford College and Goldsmiths.