Merle Hensel

Theatre

For the National Theatre: The House of Bernarda Alba, Under Milk Wood, Top Girls and Protest Song

In London’s West End: Cock

Other theatre includes: Arden of Faversham at the RSC; A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida and in the West End; All of It, The Glow, ear for eye, a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun), X and The Mistress Contract at the Royal Court; Macbeth, The Shawl and Parallel Elektra at the Young Vic; Macbeth (also on Broadway and on tour in Japan), Glasgow Girls, 27 and The Wheel for National Theatre of Scotland; Green Snake for the National Theatre of China; Aida for the Royal Danish Opera; Il Combattimento and Contagion for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance; Until the Lions for Opera National du Rhin; An Enemy of the People at the Guthrie Theater; Tenebre for Ballett am Rhein; Sun and Political Mother – Choreographer’s Cut (also film) for Hofesh Schechter Company; Shun-kin for Complicite; Lovesong for Frantic Assembly; Lunatics at Weimarer Festspiele; The Bull, James Son of James and Flowerbed for Fabulous Beast Dance Company; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Corn Exchange and Dublin Theatre Festival; Justitia and Park for Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company; Der Verlorene and Ippolit at Sophiensaele Berlin; Der Vette aus Dingsda at Opera Graz; Munchhausen at Neuköllner Oper Berlin; and Kupsch at Deutsches Theater Göttingen

Film

Baby and the short films Blinde Kuh, Die Flucht and Picasso

Merle Hensel also teaches Art Direction for Film, Event Design and Theatre Design, including at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design.

(Published November 2023.)