Biography

Mayou Trikerioti is an award-winning designer, dramaturg, and creative director working in theatre, film, and TV. Most recently, you can see her outstanding work as costume designer for the Amazon Prime Series House of David, which will be returning for season 2.

Mayou designed costumes for Anthony Chen’s Drift, starring Cynthia Erivo; David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman and Don McKellar; and the period film Fantasmi in Viaggio starring Paolo Rossi and George Chorea face. Her other film work includes collaboration with Venice Silver Lion winner Alexandros Avranas on Dark Crimes, starring Jim Carrey, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Agata Kulesza and Siamak Etemadi’s first feature, Pari, staring Melika Forurtan and Shahbaz Noshir. Mayou has designed feature and short films that have opened at international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice Film Festival, Berlin, and Toronto IFF. She is also an alumnus of Berlinale Talents.

In the UK, Mayou’s designs include the musicals: George Takei’s Allegiance, Charing Cross Theatre, Piaf at Bristol Old Vic and Syncopation at Bridewell Theatre; Captain Corelli’s Mandolin at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, Harold Pinter Theatre, and on UK tour; Macbeth at the Garrick, Man for the Young Vic, as well as When we Dead Awaken by The Norwegian Ibsen Company in London’s Coronet Theatre and Norway, the UK premier of Belbel’s Blood at The Tobacco Factory, the tour of The Hero Next Door by Onjali Q. Raúf and the innovative baby dance shows Underwater and Skydiver (Sadlers Wells and international tour).

In Greece Mayou’s designs include Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine at Diana Theatre, Athens, for which she won the Best Set Design award and Lysistrata at the Ancient Amphitheatre of Epidavros for the National Theatre.

Since 2016, Mayou has been bringing community artists together in the Wapping Open Studios, which she created and now manages. Mayou was also one of the founding members and co-artistic directors of Change of Art, a community art project created by a group of theatre practitioners and artists who came together through shared activism.

Mayou currently lives in London. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School after finishing her BA (Hons) in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Kent. Mayou also trained in forum theatre with the Cardboard Citizens.

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It was a very early decision for the women of Athens to be as nude as possible, following the reality of the play and not the convention of the Ancient Greek Comedy (men playing women, mostly with fake parts). I found myself having to forget everything I instinctively knew about clothing and costume design; a process started that meant embracing, loving the human form, starting from nude and slowly dressing each actor without covering or concealing their true form. At the same time it was very important that they should not be provocative or sexy in anyway.

Nudity should mean freedom and strength not be a provocation. A list was very quickly compiled on costume pieces that would be absolute ‘no-nos’ (namely things like sexy underwear, fishnets and suspenders). The costumes for Lysistrata were workshopped during a two month period, with the actors, in rehearsal. Still after the final costume design presentation, the costumes kept evolving, some even changing completely to new ones due to these workshops and how the characters evolved in the rehearsals.