Chiara is an International Stage and Costume designer working across Theatre, Ballet, Live
Music Performance, Exhibition design, Retail and Installation. Recent clients include the Lorde, Barbican, Bjork, The Design Museu London, The xx, Oper Leipzig, Alicia Keys and the Abbey Theatre Dublin
Chiara's creative approach and her Studio's broad and varied skill set lends itself to
benefitting such a wide range of disciplines and industries. Continually approaching briefs
from refreshed starting points, Chiara maintains the constant desire to make any project for any
audience or visitor a more emotional, immersive, sensory and effecting experience. Ever more so in this continually growing
digital and screen based age.
Chiara was Associate to Es Devlin between 2010- 2017 and trained under Christopher Oram
and Michael Grandage at the Donmar Warehouse between 2008-2010.
Upcoming design projects include:
Designing A Dolls House at The Sheffield Crucible
Designing Dancing at Lughnasa at The Gate Theatre, Dublin
As designer, credits include:
Lorde Solar Power Tour, Creartive Direction 2021-2023
Alicia Keys, Keys to the Summer Tour 2023
Cartier, Magnifying Beauty 2023
Robin Hood and The Tempest, Regents Park Open Air Theatre 2023
Florence and the Machine TV promo 2023
Portia Couglan, Abbey Theatre Dublin 2022
Amy Winehouse, Beyond the Stage at the Design Museum 2021
Theatre Basel, Ballet La Fille Mal Gardee 2021
Virtual Realms the Exhibition in collaboration with the Barbican and Art Science Museum. 2021
Sleeping Beauty, Leipzig Opera House 2019
Bjork, Cornucopia, The Shed, NYC
A Starry Messenger, Sam Yates, London West End 2019
Richard III, Headlong, Bristol Old Vic, Alexandra Palace Theatre 2019
Glengarry Glen Ross, UK Tour 2019
Midsummer Nights Dream, Crucible Theatre 2018
The xx Festival tour Summer 2018
Sampha Festival Tour 2018
State of Play, an exhibition at Fact Gallery Liverpool
Flip Side, at Selfridges
Lorde Performance on the Aria Awards
Glengarry Glen Ross at the Playhouse Theatre, London directed by Sam Yates
Set and Costume design for Desire Under the Elms, directed by Sam Yates, Crucible Sheffield.
Set and costume design for JUNKYARD, Directed by Jeremy Herrin, Headlong. Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Clwyd and the Rose Theatre, Kingston
Chiara collaborated with the Bush Theatre and their new Capital Funded refirb space in collaboration with Haworth Tomkins
Sigur Ros European and US Tour 2016 and 2017
Taming of the Shrew at The Globe Theatre (Caroline Byrne) 2016
F*ck The Polar Bears by Tanya Ronder ( The Bush Theatre )2015,
Eclipsed by Danai Guirra ( Gate Theatre )2015
The Making of Don Giovanni, exhibition design ( ROH )
Miley Cyrus and Madonna ( MTV unplugged TV performance 2014 )
The Massacre ( Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds )
All’s Well That Ends Well by Abigail Anderson ( PMA Theatre, Liverpool )
Arcadia ( Unity Theatre, Liverpool )
Chiara worked at the Donmar Warehouse for Christopher Oram between 2008-2010 and since 2010 until 2017 has been associate designer to Es Devlin.
As associate designer, previous credits include:
Robbie Williams Stadium Tour 2017,
Adeles World Stadium Tour 2017, Adele’s World Arena Tour 2016,
Beyonces’s World Stadium Tour 2016,
The 2016 Brit Awards Es Devlin,
American Psycho the Musical, on Broadway
Hamlet ( Barbican )
Freischutz ( Royal Danish Opera )
The Nether ( Royal Court ) Headlong,
The 2015 Brit Awards, (London O2)
America Psycho the Musical ( Almeida ),
Chimerica ( Almeida ),
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz world Arena tour,
The London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony, associate Designer
Kanye West and Jay Z - Watch the Throne tour,
Beatrice & Benedict ( Theatre an der Wien ),
Cunning Little Vixen ( Royal Danish Opera ),
Les Troyens ( ROH ),
Master & Margarita ( Complicite, Barbican),
Batman Live world Arena tour,
Under Christopher Oram
Red (Donmar Warehouse
Don Giovanni ( MET, New York ),
Madame Butterfly ( Houston Grand Opera ),
A Streetcar Named Desire, Hamlet, Madame De Sade ( Donmar Warehouse, Wyndam’s Season ),
Under Andrew Edwards
Sister Act the Musical ( Palladium ) and Hairspray European tour.