Anya Klepikov

Bio

Anya Klepikov is a designer of spaces and clothes for live events including theater, opera, dance, and performance. Her passion for amplifying music, dance and story with images was on stunning display in the scenic and costume designs for the acclaimed new production of Stravinsky and Balanchine’s Firebird for Miami City Ballet (2020). She has designed in New York City and regionally for Yale Repertory Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, Glimmerglass Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Florida Grand Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Fort Worth Opera, Saratoga Opera, Yale Opera, Princeton Opera, Weston Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Triad Stage, Gloucester Stage, Pearl Theatre Company, Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, New York Public Library, the I-Park Foundation, and Baryshnikov Arts Center. As guest artist Anya created thirteen designs for Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts, and since 2014 has been refining her design teaching at liberal arts programs in Princeton, Colgate, Brown, and UMass Amherst, where she has also headed the MFA program in Scenic Design and Technology. After being invited by Wendall Harrington to give the annual lecture on color at the Yale School of Drama in 2014, Anya has been developing a pedagogy of color for designers practicing in 3-dimensional space. Her creative activity extends to design-driven original work (Monuments of the Future, FLAMINGO MURMURATION), and interactive art installation (The You-Cube and An Instrument for Introspection: the Nun’s Bed). As a researcher she is fascinated by performance space and how it forms in response to cultural and socio-political realities.