I'm a costume designer working in major theaters and a set designer for film and art installations. And NOW I'm also a VR creator!

ON STAGE IN 2023
“Der Biberpelz” Staatstheater Cottbus
“Rausch” Schauspiel Essen TUP

COMING SOON IN 2024
“C'est beau et c'est pas grave” AmStramGram Genève
“Tosca” Oper Cottbus

A view from the Bridge

Written by Arthur Miller | directed by Armin Petras | costumes Cinzia Fossati | stage Julian Marbach | music Jörg Kleeman | with Lea Ruckpaul, Wolfgang Michalek, Lieke Hoppe, Cathleen Baumann, Thiemo Schwarz, Serkan Kaya, Belina Mohamed-Ali, Ashgar Aboosi, Nuri Fitturi, Maryam Vaghefi-Hosseini, Mortaza Husseini, Padideh Jalilian, Ali Delsouz Khaki, Anastasios Kortselidis, Erkan Kuervek, Rami Lazkani, Mohsen Lotfi, Omid Mirabzadeh, Kenan Mstou, Paolo Priester, Abdullah Teczan, Jamila Vidas, Chen Yan | premiere March 2019

 

in the press:

Westdeutsche Zeitung 11.3.2019
“Ein abwechslungsreicher Abend mit wunderbaren Schauspielern, leuchtenden Kostümen und prägnanten Dialogen.”
Rheinische Post 11.3.2019
“Aus dem selten gespielten 50er-Jahre-Einwandererdrama »Ein Blick von der Brücke« von Arthur Miller macht Armin Petras am Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus ein packendes Lehrstück für die Gegenwart. […] Petras gelingt ein fesselnder Abend, auch weil die Schauspieler in der naturalistischen Kulisse in eindringliches Spiel finden.”

La Cantatrice Chauve

written by Eugene Jonesco  | directed by Cyril Kaiser | stage Cinzia Fossati | costumes Verena Dubach | makeup Katrine Zingg | puppets Christophe Kiss | with Vincent Babel, Nicole Bachmann, Vanessa Battistini, Blaise Granget | premiere November 2018

Mélodie! Maladie! Mélodrame!

Directed by Sébastien Jacobi.
Theatre and music performance based on the novel “Ingrid Caven” by Jean-Jacques Schuhl and  “La Dame aux Camélias” by Alexandre Dumas fils.  Costumes Cinzia Fossati | with Verena Bukal, Ali Berber, Bernd Geiling, Christoph Iacono | premiere November 2018

What the press says:
Saarbrücker Zeitung, 12.11.18 “Verena Bukal verleiht der Caven nicht nur darstellerisch eine ganz wunderbare, zerbrechlich feminine Erscheinung, in der doch mehr Stärke und Selbstbewusstsein steckt, als man annahm. Als Sängerin läuft sie erst recht zur Hochform auf. 15 Caven-Chansons darf sie singen, mit genau der richtigen Portion Drama und Schwermut, die ähnlich wie bei Piaf so klingen, als sänge sie um ihr Leben.”  

SR2 Kulturradio, 12.11.18 “Allein schon wegen ihr kann man diesen Theaterabend getrost empfehlen. Verena Bukal gibt eine grandiose Ingrid Caven.”  

 

Happy New Year 2018

My Happy New Year Video got almost 2 millions views in one week!

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How is it done? I asked the World XR Forum in Geneva if i could come over for a couple of hours and play around with an Oculus Rift headset to create a little happy new year video. They were very nice and let me stay the whole afternoon. I drew all the elements you see in this video using Tiltbrush. Then I reloaded the file and filmed with the virtual camera the drawing coming to life. I needed many takes to get somehow acceptable camera movements. I went home, put it all together with iMovie, I published it and sent the link to all my friends…

…2 million people seemed to enjoy it, making this video the most successful thing I did in my whole life!

 

Le Misanthrope

Based on Moliere’s “Le Misanthrope” | directed by Wolfgang Michalek | stage Julian Marbach | costumes Cinzia Fossati | photos Cinzia Fossati | with Christian Czeremnych, Birgit Unterweger,  Lucie Emons, Oscar Musinowski| premiere July 2017

Glückliche Tage

Written by Samuel Beckett | directed by Armin Petras | costumes Cinzia Fossati | stage Kathrin Frosch | videos Rebecca Riedel | with Franziska Walser and Oscar Musinowski | photos Conny Mirbach | premiere March 2017

The Wizard of Oz

Theatre play inspired by the novel “The wonderful wizard of OZ” by L. Frank Baum | written and directed by Peter Raffalt | stage Dominique Wiesbauer | costumes Cinzia Fossati | with Dionne Wudu, Florian Hackspiel, Anna Mitterberger, Stefanie Smailes, Christian Bartels, Klaus Lehmann, Christopher Reinhardt | premiere October 2016

Chelsea Hotel

Directed by Sébastien Jacobi based on an idea by Hanna Plaß & Max Braun | costumes Cinzia Fossati | stage Julian Marbach | with Manuel Harder, Marietta Meguid, Hanna Plaß, Elmar Roloff, Birgit Unterweger, Max Braun, Joscha Glass, Johann Polzer | premiere September 2016

what the press says.

Bis Später

Theater play for preschooler written by Bernhard Studlar, directed by Anne Tysiak | costumes and stage Cinzia Fossati | with Henry Arturo Jiménez, Anja Willutzki, Margarita Wiesner, Helene Aderhold, Giulia Weis | premiere April 2016

 

Abschied von Gestern

Art and theater performance directed by various artists | stage Natascha von Steiger | photos Julian Marbach | costumes Cinzia Fossati | premiere December 2015 Schauspiel Stuttgart Nord