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Philippe Miesch

Philippe Miesch

was born in Mulhouse/ France in 1961. He studied architecture from 1979-1988 at the Ècole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg and stage design at the Ècole Supérieure d’Art Dramatique des TNS/ National Theatre Strasbourg. After 5 years of working as an architect in Basel he took over the management of the stage design workshops at the National Theatre Strasbourg. In 1995, he held a one-year fellowship at the Villa Medici of the French Academy in Rome, where he developed stage designs for baroque operas. Since returning from Italy, he has been a freelance stage designer for theatre, opera and ballet, apart from working as an architect focusing on theatre and exhibition design. He has cooperated with directors such as Jeanne Moreau, Jean Liermier, Jacques Weber, Torsten Fischer, Günter Kraemer and the choreographer Charles Jude. His places of employment have included the Opéra National de Paris, the Comédie Française, the Théatro Réal in Madrid, the Opéra National de Bordeaux, the operahouses of Strasbourg, Marseilles, Nantes, Nancy, Montpellier, Lausanne, and the Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne, the Théâtre de Carouge/ Geneva, the Theater in der Josefstadt/ Vienna, the Bühnen der Stadt Köln, the Théâtre des amandiers/ Nanterre, the Théâtre de Nice, the TNP Villeurbanne and others. He has has been nominated for a ‘Molière’ prize for the stage design of ‘Hôtel des deux mondes’, a world première by Eric Emmanuel Schmitt at the Théâtre Marigny/ Paris. Since 1996, he has taught concept development, analysis and stage design at the Ècole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg and the Ècole supérieure d’art dramatique des TNS.