Kirsten Dephoff
costume designer
© Ann Weitz und Gino Bühler
Kirsten Dephoff studied set design at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf with Prof. Karl Kneidl and works as a free-lance costume and set designer. She made her debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2022/23 with this production of Tchaikovsky's The Sorceress. Recent engagements have included the set and costumes for Madama Butterfly at Theater Krefeld, directed by Beverly and Rebecca Blankenship, and costumes for Amelie Niermeyer's production of Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne at Oper Bonn. She has worked for Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart, the Residenztheater in Munich, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Theater Basel, the Staatstheater in Nürnberg, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Hamburg and Hannover state operas, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Düsseldorf’s Schauspielhaus. Work abroad has taken her to places including Italy, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Slovenian National Opera and the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv. She works often with the director Amelie Niermeyer, designing costumes for works including La Clemenza di Tito at the Salzburg Landestheater, La Favorite at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra and Rusalka at the Theater an der Wien), Lucia di Lammermoor at the Hamburg State Opera and Macbeth at the Landestheater in Salzburg). She regularly designs sets and costumes for the Israeli director Dedi Baron, with whom she is staging Weinberg's The (female) Passenger at Theater Krefeld. During the 2024/ 25 season she designs the costumes for Vasily Barkhatov's new production of Rusalka at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. She also designs costumes for film and television.