Stage Design

Danila Travin is a set and costume designer, as well as a video designer for theatre and opera productions. He was born in Russia and lives in Berlin.

He trained at the Moscow Art Theatre School in scenography and theatre technology, and at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute in art history. Following his studies, he undertook an internship at the Bolshoi Theatre.

His work includes set design for Gianni Schicchi/A Ball Night (Zurich Opera House, 2026), set design and video design for Hänsel and Gretel (Darmstadt State Theatre, 2025), and set and costume design for Jekyll & Hyde (Schleswig-Holstein State Theatre, 2026), Onegin (Kaluga Drama Theatre, 2022), Witness for the Prosecution (Baltic House Theatre, St Petersburg, 2022), Bobok (Kaluga Drama Theatre, 2022), Seryozha (Theatre Centre “On Strastnoy”, Moscow, 2021) and Dear Elena Sergeevna (Satyricon Theatre, Moscow, 2020), amongst others. In 2023, he collaborated on the set design for From the House of the Dead at the Ruhrtriennale.

From 2021 to 2025, he worked as a set design assistant to Dmitri Tcherniakov on productions at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Bayreuth Festival, the Hamburg State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Salzburg Festival and the Dutch National Opera.