Teresa Vergho, born in 1980, studied stage and costume design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and the University of the Arts in Berlin after completing a tailoring apprenticeship at the Residenztheater in Munich. She then worked as a permanent design assistant at the Münchner Kammerspiele, where she created her first stage and costume designs for Johan Simons and Alain Platel. Since 2012, she has been working as a freelance stage and costume designer for theatre, dance, and opera, collaborating with directors such as Ersan Mondtag, Susanne Kennedy, Pınar Karabulut, Johan Simons, Karin Henkel, Jossi Wieler, Benny Claessens, Falk Richter, Marie Schleef, and Wilke Weermann. Her work has been seen at the Münchner Kammerspiele, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Maxim Gorki Theater, Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspiel Köln, Ruhrtriennale, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wiener Festwochen, Burgtheater Vienna, Salzburg Festival, and Opéra de Lyon.
She has been invited multiple times to the Berliner Theatertreffen as a costume designer, including in 2012 with Cleansed/Crave/4.48 Psychosis directed by Johan Simons, in 2014 with Tauberbach directed by Alain Platel, in 2022 with Like Lovers Do (Memoirs of Medusa) directed by Pınar Karabulut, and most recently in 2025 with Double Serpent directed by Ersan Mondtag. Her costume design for The Virgin Suicides, directed by Susanne Kennedy, was nominated for the German theatre award Der Faust in 2017. She has received numerous mentions in the critics' poll of Theater heute magazine in the category "Costume Design of the Year." Between 2014 and 2024, Teresa Vergho taught various courses in stage and costume design at the Academies of Fine Arts in Munich and Düsseldorf.
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