Camille Assaf is a costume designer for opera, dance, film and performance art. She has most recently worked with the director Peter Sellars on productions of Médée at the Berlin State Opera, the theatre work Roman de Fauvel at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Beatrice di Tenda at the Paris Opéra.
She has also designed costumes for opera productions at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opera Holland Park in London, Theater Basel, the Chenla Theatre in Cambodia, the Santa Fe Opera, the Boston Lyric Opera, the Long Beach Opera and in productions of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She created the costumes for the ballets Romeo and Juliet and Unstill Life (with the pianist Alexandre Tharaud) choreographed by Benjamin Millepied, for James Darrah’s productions of Philip Glass’s Les Enfants terribles and The Fall of the House of Usher and for productions by the American artist duo Gerard & Kelly.
Her costumes for dance and performance have been seen at the New York City Ballet, the Park Avenue Armory in New York and the Guggenheim Museum in Paris, and at the Palais de Tokyo, the Centre national de la dance, the Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In 2008 she was part of the design team under the direction of Eiko Ishioka that was responsible for the costumes for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Beijing. She has also designed costumes for productions in Phnom Penh, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Camille Assaf has received the Leo Lerman Graduate Fellowship in Design and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the TCG Career Development Program. Her designs featured in the major exhibition ‘Costume at the Turn of the Century 1990—2015’ in Moscow and at the Prague Quadrennial.
