Noemi Daboczi is a conceptual designer working internationally across stage, film, and photography. Her recent theatre work includes set and costume design for ARMINIO at the Royal Opera House, GRISELDA at Oper Wuppertal, and costume design for THE PROMISED LAND at the Residenztheater Munich. She was co-set designer for L'ORFEO at the Zurich Opera House and costume designer for NEVER KNOWN at the Royal Ballet’s Festival of New Choreography. Her work also includes FLICKERING GLANCES FROM THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION at the Vig Theatre in Budapest, as well as EXILS at the Opéra National de Montpellier and GRUD at Hampstead Theatre London. Alongside her own work, she was associate designer on Katie Mitchell’s Olivier Award-nominated THEODORA at the Royal Opera House and on Simon Stone’s INNOCENCE at the Finnish National Opera, working closely with both directors. She has worked with Punchdrunk on several upcoming projects.
Her film work spans narrative, commercial productions and music videos. Her photography practice runs parallel to her stage work, building constructed environments in which the relationship between person and space becomes the subject of the image.

"She's an artist with creativity, patience and brilliant attention to detail." - Katie Mitchell /theatre director/
"Her eye for detail, perfectionism, unrestful desire to challenge herself and her aspiration to push boundaries all bear witness to her passion for design" - Jermaine Spivey /director, choreographer/
"There is a power and a humanity to what she is creating, and her curiosity and artistry is rare" - Bori Mezo /puppeteer, maker/

THEATRE/OPERA WORK

ABSENCE | NATIONALE REISOPERA, Enschede (Netherlands)
Set and Costume Designer, 2027, Directed by Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol

ORPHEUS & EURYDICE | ENGLISH TOURING OPERA, London (UK)
Set and Costume Designer, 2026, Directed by Jenny Ogilvie

FLICKERING GLANCES FROM THE BRINK OF EXCTINTION | VIG THEATRE, Budapest (Hungary)
Set Designer, 2026, Directed by Peter Istvan Nagy

GRISELDA | OPERNHAUS WUPPERTAL, Wuppertal (Germany)
Set and Costume Designer, 2026, Directed by Mathilda du Tilleul McNicol

THE PROMISED LAND | RESIDENZTHEATER, Munich (Germany)
Costume Designer, 2025, Directed by Jakab Tarnoczi

EXILS | THE OPERA COMEDIE, Montpellier (France)
Set and Costume Designer, 2025, Directed by Mathilda du Tilleul McNicol

L’ORFEO | ZURICH OPERA HOUSE, Zurich (Switzerland)
Co-Set Designer, 2024, Directed by Evgeny Titov

GRUD | HAMPSTEAD THEATRE, London (UK)
Set and Costume Designer, 2024, Directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart

NEVER KNOWN | ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, London (UK)
Costume Designer, 2024, Festival of New Choreography, Directed by Joshua Junker

LAY DOWN YOUR BURDENS | BARBICAN PIT, London (UK) – Olivier Awards Nominated
Set and Costume Designer, 2024, Directed by Rhiannon Faith

ARMINIO | ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, London (UK)
Set and Costume Designer, 2023, Directed by Mathilda du Tilleul McNicol

INNOCENCE | FINNISH NATIONAL OPERA, Helsinki (Finland)
Associate Set Designer, 2022, Directed by Simon Stone

NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES | TOBACCO FACTORY, Bristol (UK)
Set and Costume Designer, 2022, Directed by Nastazja Domaradzka

THEODORA | ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, London (UK) – Olivier Awards Nominated
Associate Set Designer, 2022, Directed by Katie Mitchell

A DOZEN THINGS I’D RATHER BE | WRETCHED THEATRE, London (UK)
Set and Costume Designer, 2022, Directed by Bence Kalo

FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS | LAMDA, London (UK)
Set and Costume Designer, 2020, Directed by Penny Cherns

TERMS AND CONDITIONS | RAMBERT DANCE/SADLER’S WELLS, London (UK)
Costume and Mask Designer, 2019, Directed by Jermaine Spivey

ASSISTANT DESIGNER for CHLOE LAMFORD | 2018 – 2021 – On various large scale productions internationally.
Among others: ANTIPODES | The National Theatre, THE HANDMAID’S TALE | The Royal Danish Opera

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM | SZIGLIGETI THEATRE, Oradea (Romania)
Set Designer, 2018, Directed by Jakab Tarnóczi

THE BROKEN JUG | ZENTHE FERENC THEATRE, Salgótarján (Hungary)
Set Designer, 2017, Directed by Jakab Tarnóczi

QUADRATURE OF THE CIRCLE | ZENTHE FERENC THEATRE, Salgótartján (Hungary)
Set and Costume Designer, 2017, Directed by Jakab Tarnóczi

THE STORY OF A MOTHER | UNIVERSITY OF THEATRE AND FILM ARTS, Budapest (Hungary)
Set Designer, 2016, Directed by Jakab Tarnóczi

MIRANDOLINA | JURANYI INKUBATOR HOUSE, Budapest (Hungary)
Co-puppet Designer, 2015, Directed by Csilla Bereczki

FLY, MY SOUL! | K2 THEATRE, Budapest (Hungary)
Set and Costume Design Assistant, 2015, Directed by Péter Fábián & Bence Benkó

PHOTOGRAPHY

CONNECTION. | Conceptional photography project, London (UK)

Photographer, Set Designer and Producer, 2021

12 models in 6 different design setups around the topic of connection and isolation

FILM WORK

DESERT FALCON | Commercial for ARABIAN OUD, London (UK)

Production Designer, 2023, Directed by Hassan Kafi

 

LOW ISLAND – MUSIC VIDEOS | Ligatura Films, London (UK)

Production Designer, 2022, Forever Is Too Long, Wasn’t for Nothing, Kid’s Gloves and Can’t Forget

 

TP CARING SPACES FUNDRAISER INVITATION – CIRCUS | Turner & Pocock with Voop Productions, London (UK)

Production Designer, 2022, Directed by Will Holloway

 

GREENLIGHT – GERMAN GENIOUS | Shout Loud Creative, London (UK)

Art Director, 2022, Starring Ricky Gervais and Kida Khodr Ramadan

 

COMMERCIAL FOR PANASONIC | Voop Productions, London (UK)

Production Designer, 2021, Directed by Will Holloway

 

THE DEVIL’S KEEP | Commercial for the Craft Irish Whiskey Co., London (UK)

Production Designer, 2021, Directed by Matt Maude

 

MAEVE IN THE DARK | Award winning short film, London (UK)

Production Designer, 2020, Directed by Kasia Kaczmarek
Underwire Festival – Best Production Design Nominee

 

LOVE IS GREATER THAN TWO | Commercial for Huawei, London (UK)

Production Designer, 2020, Directed by Hsien-Yu Niu

 

EYEHOLES | Short film (drama), London (UK)

Costume Designer, 2020, Directed by Paisley Walsh

 

EVERY MOMENT TELLS A STORY | Commercial for THE SAVOY HOTEL, London (UK)

Production Designer, 2018, Directed by Marek Mysicka

 

UPBEATS | Music video, London (UK)

Art Director, 2018, Directed by Jonas Lord

 

NOBODY’S DARLING | Promo film (comedy), London (UK)

Production Designer, 2017, Directed by Sophia Carr-Gomm

 

MISOPHONIA | Short film (thriller), London (UK)

Production Designer, 2017, Written and directed by Bhavik Pankhania

 

NINE MILE CREEK | Short film (period, western), London (UK)

Co-Production Designer, 2017, Written and directed by Ian Bagley

 

TWENTY MINUTES | Short film (drama), London (UK)

Set Designer, 2017, Directed by Oisin Byrne

EXHIBITIONS

STAGING PLACES – VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, London (UK) | 2020

Set design for MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM (Szigligeti Theatre)

 

BEST OF DIPLOMA – University of Fine Arts, Budapest (Hungary) | 2016

Set and Costume Design for JEREMIAH OR THE COLD SPELL

 

SZEM FESTIVAL – Miskolc (Hungary) | 2016

Puppet design for MIRANDOLINA

 

PATH TO THE FIELD OF PUPPETS – Pécs (Hungary) | 2015

Puppet design for Trapiti

 

PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL – Prague (Czech Republic) | 2015

The Face Collector’s Room installation

EDUCATION

BACHELOR DEGREE OF SET AND COSTUME DESIGN | 2016

WITH BEST OF DIPLOMA AWARD

Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest

 

FASHION DESIGNER TRAINING | 2013

Modell Fashion School, Budapest