Camille
Assaf

costume
designer


Camille Assaf, has been an associate artist of Moving Theater since June 2004, shortly after she received her MFA in Stage and Costume Design from Yale University, School of Drama.

She has designed costumes for various productions in New York and elsewhere. 

Her recent credits include The Tempest (Shakespeare on the Sound, CT), Perseus (dir. Ellen Stuart, La Mama ETC, NYC), Evita (Louisiana), The Winter’s Tale (La Mama, NYC), and three new ballets by choreographer Eliot Feld (Backchat, Rumors and Pattootie, Joyce Theater, NYC). 

Ms Assaf’s other theater credits include the premiere of Pink, by Heather-Lynn Mac Donald (New York Summer Play Festival ‘04), The King Stag (Yale Repertory Theater), Coriolanus (Yale School of Drama), Henry IV part 1 (Yale School of Drama), The Wild Party, Limitations of Life, The Sour Thunder, Pageant (Yale Cabaret). 

She also designed sets for Richard III (YSD) and Heiner Müller’s Philoctetes (Yale Cabaret). In the summer of 2003, she created stage elements, projections and costumes for The Dwight-Edgewood Project, a playwriting summer program for children of New Haven’s public schools. 

She is currently designing costumes for an upcoming production of Animal Tales (a new opera written by George Plimpton and composed by Kitty Brazelton). Her work can also be seen this September, at the New York Music Theater Festival in Don Imbroglio, an opera-buffa composed by Peter Hilliard and written by Matt Boresi.

Education: BA Philosophy (Sorbonne University, Paris, France), MFA Stage and Costume Design (Yale University).