Fotini Dimou
Set & Costume Designer
FOTINI DIMOU trained as set and costume designer at the Central St. Martin’s school of Art and Design after studying Fine Art for a year at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Boitsfort in Brussels, Belgium. After her studies she spent five years working in the US as set and costume designer in New York, and as resident costume designer at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. Since then she has been working extensively in the UK, as well as Europe, with major national and commercial Theatre, Opera and Dance companies. Fotini also designs costumes for TV drama, commercials and feature Films.
FILM & TV CREDITS AS COSTUME DESIGNER INCLUDE :
SKIN : Feature film directed by Tony Fabian starring Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neil & Alice Krige directed by Anthony Fabian
COMMANDER II (Virus) & COMMANDER III (Blackdog) : Television series directed by Charles Beeson, starring Amanda Burton, produced by Peter McAleese for La Plante Productions.
DESERT DREAMS : Television film for BBC2 directed by David Barnard with Lesley Garrett.
THE SINGER : Television film for BBC2 and BBC Wales directed by David Barnard with Lesley Garrett.
MAN AND BOY : Television film for BBC1 based on the bestseller by Tony Parsons. Directed by Simon Curtis, produced by Kate Harwood. Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Natasha Little, Ian McShane & Pauline Collins.
RIPLEY’S GAME : Feature film for New Line based on the Patricia Highsmith novel. Directed by Liliana Cavani. Starring John Malkovitch, Dougray Scott and Ray Winstone.
SECOND SIGHT : (Second Television series – three films) for Twenty Twenty Television – written by Paula Milne and produced by Lars Macfarlane and Ian Scaife. Starring Clive Owen:
Film 1 – HIDE AND SEEK directed by Edward Bennett, with Claire Skinner & Art Malik
Film 2 – PARASOMNIA directed by Maurice Philips, with Josephine Butler & Michael Kitchen.
Film 3 - IN THE KINGDOM OF THE BLIND directed by Jonas Grimas with Peter Vaughan.
THE WRITING GAME : Television film by David Lodge on Channel 4. Directed by Stuart Burge. Starring George Segal, Susan Wooldridge & Michael Maloney.
THE BROWNING VERSION : Feature film directed by Mike Figgis for Paramount. Starring Albert Finney & Greta Scacchi.
COMMERCIAL CREDITS INCLUDE :
LEVI’S 501 with Brad Pitt for RSA.
Two commercials for INTERCITY for British Rail for RSA.
Soupline for RSA.
Fotini has also done commercials for The Producers and for Raspberry Pictures.
THEATRE CREDITS INCLUDE :
For the ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY : Stratford-upon–Avon and London Barbican
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (with Harriet Walter) Set & Costumes
THE CASTLE Set & Costumes
A JOVIAL CREW Set & Costumes
THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT (with Richard McCabe) Set & Costumes
THE ARCHBISHOPS CEILING Set & Costumes
ION (with Jude Law) Set & Costumes
FASHION Set & Costumes
THE STORM Set & Costumes
SPECULATORS Set & Costumes
JULIUS CAESAR Costumes
THE CRUCIBLE Costumes
For the NATIONAL THEATRE, LONDON :
GETHSEMANE Costumes
FRAM Costumes
THERESE RAQUIN Costumes
THE SECRET RAPTURE Costumes
THE SEAGULL (with Judi Dench) Costumes
For the ROYAL COURT THEATRE, LONDON :
SORE THROATS Set & Costumes
ROAD Set & Costumes
SOME SINGING BLOOD Set & Costumes
THE QUEEN AND I Set & Costumes (& transfer to Vaudeville Theatre, London)
OTHER THEATRE WORK INCLUDES :
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN Chichester & Theatre Royal Haymarket Costumes
CREDITORS Donmar Warehouse London & Brooklyn Academy of Music NY Costumes
THE GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING National Tour and Theatre Royal Haymarket Costumes
HAY FEVER (with Dame Diana Rigg) Chichester Festival Theatre Costumes
ROMEO AND JULIET Regents Park, Open Air Theatre Costumes
TWELFTH NIGHT Regents Park, Open Air Theatre Costumes
THE LAST CONFESSION Chichester Festival Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket Costumes
PRESENT LAUGHTER Royal Exchange Manchester Costumes
THE FATHER (with Edward Fox) The Touring Partnership Set & Costumes
ROMEO AND JULIET Victory Theatre, Broadway NY Set & Costumes
THE LADY FROM THE SEA Riverside Studios and National Theatre of Norway Set & Costumes
MADAME MELVILLE (with Irene Jacob and Macauly Culkin) Vaudeville Theatre, London Costumes
SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY (with David Suchet) Chichester Festival Theatre Costumes
For COMMERCIAL and NATIONAL THEATRES in GREECE :
THE CACTUS FLOWER (with Mimi Denissi) Ilissia Denissi Theatre Set only
I,LASKARINA (with Mimi Denissi) Acropole Theatre Set & Costumes
OEDIPUS TYRANNOS Ancient Theatre Epidaurus Set & Costumes
MACBETH (with George Kimoulis) Jenny Karezi Theatre Set & Costumes
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (with George Kimoulis) Jenny Karezi Theatre Set & Costumes
LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (with Nonika Galinea and Alekos Alexandrakis) Ilissia Theatre Set & Costumes
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (with Nonika Galinea) Illissia Theatre Set & Costumes
THE GOODBYE GIRL (with George Kimoulis) Illissia Theatre Set & Costumes
ARCADIA National Theatre of Northern Greece, Thessaloniki Costumes
THEODORA (with Mimi Denissi) Acropole Theatre Costumes
THE KING AND I (with Mimi Denissi ) Ilissia Denissi Theatre Costumes
VICTOR VICTORIA (with Mimi Denissi and Danis Katranidis) Ilissia Denissi Theatre Costumes
CYRANO DE BERGERAC (with George Kimoulis) Vembo Theatre Costumes
OPERA :
DIDO AND AENEAS Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Costumes
DIDO AND AENEAS Teatro a la Scalla, Milan Costumes
EUGENE ONEGIN English National OperaSet only
THE SARLATAN Wexford Opera Festival, Ireland Set & Costumes
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Scottish Opera-Go-round Set & Costumes
BLOOD WEDDING Women’s Playhouse Trust Set & Costumes
BALLET AND MODERN DANCE :
NAKED Sadlers Wells, George Piper Dances Costumes
STAMPEDE Sadlers Wells, Richard Alston Co. Set & Costumes
BROKEN, STOLEN Queen Elizabeth Hall, Richard Alston Co. Costumes
ORPHEUS SINGING AND DREAMING Richard Alston Co. Costumes
BACH MEASURES The Place and Queen Elizabeth Hall, Richard Alston Co. Costumes
IN A DREAM Tour of Arc Dance Co. Set & Costumes
WHITE NIGHTS English National Ballet Set & Costumes
ENCOUNTERS English National Ballet Tour Set & Costumes
THE RITE OF SPRING Geneva Ballet – Geneva Opera Set & Costumes
THE BLUE ROOM The Place, Jonathan Lunn Co. Set & Costumes