TRUI
MALTEN

A professional lighting designer since 1993, Trui Malten lights theatre, opera, dance and performance pieces. She is currently based in Florence Italy but, - has passport, will travel.
Mss. Malten has been nominated for the Profile award 2026 for her lighting design for Imeneo, directed by Guido Martin Brandis for the Cambridge Handel Opera Company led by Julian Perkins.
Ms
Trui Malten has a long-standing collaboration with the New National Encounter. Their shows Snow White and Beauty and the Beast were performed at the New Victory on 42nd Street NY. For NIE she designed the lights for Hansel and Gretel; The Snow Queen; Snow White; I will be Everything and Beauty and the Beast. In September 2022 she lit the collaboration between NIE's director Alex Byrne and Marc MacLochlainn, from the Branar Teatar in Ireland: A Grand Soft Day. A wonderful  theatre piece for 4-year olds about the weather, which had a very successfully tour in Ireland and the UK.

Trui has lit a lot of opera lately: Imeneo, by Handel, directed by Guido Martin-Brandis for CHOC in Cambridge at the Festival Theatre; Jane Eyre, by John Joubert, the world premiere of the staged opera directed by Eleanor Burke at the Arcola Theatre, London; Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky, with HGO directed by Eleanor Burke, winner of two Off West End ("Offie") Award 2025! Romeo and Juliette - Berlioz, for David Finn, choreographed by Sasha Waltz in Łódź Poland; Il Matrimonio Segreto - Cimarosa, for which she designed sets and lights, with director Matelda Cappelletti in Pescara; Queen of Spades - Tchaikovsky, for Jennifer Tipton, directed by Richard Jones at Palau de les Arts, Valencia; Little Black Cat – devised by the Cambridge Youth Opera, with director Caroline Coetzee; Cunning Little Vixen - Janacek, with director Eleanor Burke for HGO at Jackson’s Theatre London - winner of two Off West End ("Offie") Award 2023; Blue Beard’s Castle - Bartok, with Eleanor Burke at Grimeborne,  the Arcola Theatre London; Tamerlano - Handel, with director Dionysios Kyropoulos for CHOC in Cambridge; Carmen - Bizet, with Eleanor Burke for CUOS in Cambridge.

Earlier she premiered Nora and Vera, two ballets choreographed by Stina Quagebeur for the ENB. In Palermo she designed Euthalia by Louisa Stella, directed by Matteo Bavera & Thea Dellavalle. In Norwich she designed sets, lights and costumes for the first outdoor production after lockdown: Tatlin’s Tower, by Evan Yionoulis, directed by Karen Kirkham, set below the model of the tower at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich.

She had the pleasure to designed sets and Lights for Angels in America also directed by Karen Kirkham. This production will be their second collaboration on the piece! Trui designed also both sets and lights for Another Goodbye, a solo piece written and performed by Adie Mueller and developed and designed My Heart, My Heart - Live Poetry Jukebox, a poetry performance project that toured the UK for five years in collaboration with Adie Mueller, 

Over the years she has assisted on transfers to mayor theatres in London, Naples, Valencia, Tokyo, Vienna, for lighting designers such as Jennifer Tipton, Chris Akerlind, David Finn and Steve Strawbridge. In 2022 Trui assisted Jennifer Tipton on To Kill A Mockingbird, which ran 18 months at the Gielgud Theatre on London's West End. In 2015/16 she assisted Christophe Forey on the European tour of Norma starring Cecilia Bartoli. 

Ms. Malten studied lighting design with Jennifer Tipton and set design with Ming Cho Lee at the Yale School of Drama. 
Trui Malten is a professional member of the Association for Lighting Production and Design, ALPD.

​During lockdown she made Covid Chronicle Cronies: small sculptures and connected stories from days long passed. Please see www.truimaltencronies.com

Please view the attached CV for a full list of productions Trui has worked on.​