Deny Vachlioti
Costume & Set Designer
60 designers
57 projects
She studied Set & Costume Design at the Central Saint Martins College, London. For some years, she worked as an assistant to the acclaimed set designer Pamela Howard and choreographer Mathew Hart, as well as individually as a director and set designer at Cochrane Theatre, West End, for which she was awarded the Margaret Woodward Award. In Greece, she has cooperated as set & costume designer with N. Nikolaidis, H. Malandris, V. Mavromati, Y. Houvardas, St. Livathinos, E. Papakonstantinou, G. Armenis, M. Denisi, St. Fasoulis, Y. Kakleas, A. Kaliani, P. Zoulia, Michael Sisk in the opera Hercules (George Frideric Handel/Odeon of Herodes 2002), as well as with Bruce Mayers in The Maids (Genet/National Theatre of Greece, 2015). She has been awarded for her work by the Greek Playwright’s Society, Drama International Short Film Festival, the Athinorama magazine Audience Award and two Corfiot prizes. She has conducted seminars at the Drama School of the G. Armenis’ New Hellenic Theatre. She is the daughter of the acclaimed theatre figure and intellectual Christos Vachliotis and niece of Denny Vachlioti who was twice nominated for an Oscar in Costume Design for Phaedra and Never on Sunday both directed by Jules Dassin starring Melina Merkouri and costume designer of the film Stella, as well as niece of the Academy Awarded Theoni V. Aldredge (The Great Gatsby).
Two hundred years since the beginning of the Revolution, The Hellenic Criminal Bar Association and the Hellenic Lawyers’ Association e-themis actively participated in the celebration of the 1821 Greek Revolution in an interactive, vivid and particularly symbolic way. Thus, the idea for a theatrical retrospection was born based on the records of Kolokotronis’ and Plapoutas’ trials featuring lawyers in the roles of judges, barristers, witnesses, as well as a female chorus as a narrator, as in ancient tragedy. Judges and witnesses were dressed in abstract costumes with period elements, in grey and black shades, while the female chorus’ costumes were inspired by the traditional petticoat. Accomplished artists fondly collaborated with lawyers to theatrically convey the message of unity, amity and free conscience -the foundations of Democracy- in the long way leading to national fulfillment, rather than merely as a documentary-reconstruction.
Authors: Michalis Reppas – Thanassis Papathanassiou
Direction: Stavros Karagiannis
Set Design – Movement: Stavros Litinas
Music – Verses: Dimitris Papadimitriou
Costume Design: Deny Vachlioti
Lighting Design: Vassilis Papakonstantinou
Photos: G. Stergiou, T. Anagnostopoulos, Kare-Kare
Two hundred years since the beginning of the Revolution, The Hellenic Criminal Bar Association and the Hellenic Lawyers’ Association e-themis actively participated in the celebration of the 1821 Greek Revolution in an interactive, vivid and particularly symbolic way. Thus, the idea for a theatrical retrospection was born based on the records of Kolokotronis’ and Plapoutas’ trials featuring lawyers in the roles of judges, barristers, witnesses, as well as a female chorus as a narrator, as in ancient tragedy. Judges and witnesses were dressed in abstract costumes with period elements, in grey and black shades, while the female chorus’ costumes were inspired by the traditional petticoat. Accomplished artists fondly collaborated with lawyers to theatrically convey the message of unity, amity and free conscience -the foundations of Democracy- in the long way leading to national fulfillment, rather than merely as a documentary-reconstruction.
She studied Set & Costume Design at the Central Saint Martins College, London. For some years, she worked as an assistant to the acclaimed set designer Pamela Howard and choreographer Mathew Hart, as well as individually as a director and set designer at Cochrane Theatre, West End, for which she was awarded the Margaret Woodward Award. In Greece, she has cooperated as set & costume designer with N. Nikolaidis, H. Malandris, V. Mavromati, Y. Houvardas, St. Livathinos, E. Papakonstantinou, G. Armenis, M. Denisi, St. Fasoulis, Y. Kakleas, A. Kaliani, P. Zoulia, Michael Sisk in the opera Hercules (George Frideric Handel/Odeon of Herodes 2002), as well as with Bruce Mayers in The Maids (Genet/National Theatre of Greece, 2015). She has been awarded for her work by the Greek Playwright’s Society, Drama International Short Film Festival, the Athinorama magazine Audience Award and two Corfiot prizes. She has conducted seminars at the Drama School of the G. Armenis’ New Hellenic Theatre. She is the daughter of the acclaimed theatre figure and intellectual Christos Vachliotis and niece of Denny Vachlioti who was twice nominated for an Oscar in Costume Design for Phaedra and Never on Sunday both directed by Jules Dassin starring Melina Merkouri and costume designer of the film Stella, as well as niece of the Academy Awarded Theoni V. Aldredge (The Great Gatsby).
Authors: Michalis Reppas – Thanassis Papathanassiou
Direction: Stavros Karagiannis
Set Design – Movement: Stavros Litinas
Music – Verses: Dimitris Papadimitriou
Costume Design: Deny Vachlioti
Lighting Design: Vassilis Papakonstantinou
Photos: G. Stergiou, T. Anagnostopoulos, Kare-Kare
