Mayou Trikerioti is an award-winning designer, dramaturg, and creative director working in theatre, film, and TV. Most recently, you can see her outstanding work as costume designer for the Amazon Prime Series House of David, which will be returning for season 2.

Mayou designed costumes for Anthony Chen’s Drift, starring Cynthia Erivo; David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman and Don McKellar; and the period film Fantasmi in Viaggio starring Paolo Rossi and George Chorea face. Her other film work includes collaboration with Venice Silver Lion winner Alexandros Avranas on Dark Crimes, starring Jim Carrey, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Agata Kulesza and Siamak Etemadi’s first feature, Pari, staring Melika Forurtan and Shahbaz Noshir. Mayou has designed feature and short films that have opened at international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice Film Festival, Berlin, and Toronto IFF. She is also an alumnus of Berlinale Talents.

In the UK, Mayou’s designs include the musicals: George Takei’s Allegiance, Charing Cross Theatre, Piaf at Bristol Old Vic and Syncopation at Bridewell Theatre; Captain Corelli’s Mandolin at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, Harold Pinter Theatre, and on UK tour; Macbeth at the Garrick, Man for the Young Vic, as well as When we Dead Awaken by The Norwegian Ibsen Company in London’s Coronet Theatre and Norway, the UK premier of Belbel’s Blood at The Tobacco Factory, the tour of The Hero Next Door by Onjali Q. Raúf and the innovative baby dance shows Underwater and Skydiver (Sadlers Wells and international tour).

In Greece Mayou’s designs include Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine at Diana Theatre, Athens, for which she won the Best Set Design award and Lysistrata at the Ancient Amphitheatre of Epidavros for the National Theatre.

Since 2016, Mayou has been bringing community artists together in the Wapping Open Studios, which she created and now manages. Mayou was also one of the founding members and co-artistic directors of Change of Art, a community art project created by a group of theatre practitioners and artists who came together through shared activism.

Mayou currently lives in London. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School after finishing her BA (Hons) in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Kent. Mayou also trained in forum theatre with the Cardobard Citizens.

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Exhibitions:


2023 / PQ23 [exhibitor, Greece]
2022 / WSD 2022 [digital exhibition, OISTAT, Calgary, Canada]
2019-2020 / Staging Places [SBTD/Prague PQ19 and V&A museum, London]
2015 / Make:Believe [SBTD/Nottingham]
2013 / WSD 2013 [digital exhibition, OISTAT, Cardiff]
2011 / Transformations & Revelations 2011 [SBTD / Cardiff]
2007 / PQ 2007 [OISTAT, Prague]
2005 / World Stage Design 2005 [OISTAT, Toronto]
2002 / Young Theatre Designers [National Theatre of Greece, Athens]
2002 / 2D>3D [SBTD / London]

Teaching:

2023-2025 / UAL - London College of Fashion Visiting. Lecturer - MA Costume Design
2024-2025 / Rose Bruford - Visiting. Lecturer - Contemporary Theatre
2014-15 / UAL - Central St Martins -Visiting Lecturer Design for Performance.
2007-9 / Mikro Polytehneio [Set Design 101, Athens]