Katrin Lea
Tag Costumes

Katrin Lea Tag was born in Berlin and studied stage design with Erich Wonder and painting and graphics with Renée Green at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 1997 she won first prize in the international Ring Award competition. This was followed by assistantships with Katrin Brack and Dimiter Gotscheff, for whose production of Iwanow at the Volksbühne Berlin she designed the costumes in 2005 and for which she was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2006. She works with the directors Christof Loy, Tatjana Gürbaca and Christiane Pohle. Since 2006, she has worked regularly with Michael Thalheimer (costumes for 'Rose Bernd' at the Thalia Theatre Hamburg, 'Die Fledermaus' and 'Die Nibelungen' at the Deutsches Theater Berlin) and with Barrie Kosky (stage and costumes for 'Carmen' and 'Salome' at the Frankfurt Opera, 'Aus einem Totenhaus' at the Hanover State Opera, 'Castor et Pollux' at the English National Opera in London, 'Les Boréades' at the Opéra Dijon). For 'The Bassarids' by Henze, she was named stage designer of the year by Opernwelt magazine in 2020. At Theater Basel, she is designing the costumes for Benedikt von Peter's production of 'Ring des Nibelungen'.