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.

Trui has a long-standing collaboration with NIE: New International Encounter, a theatre company based in Cambridge England. 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 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.

She has lit a lot of opera lately: Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky, with HGO directed by Eleanor Burke, nominated for two Off West End ("Offie") Awards! 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 - for which we won an Offie; 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.

This fall she designed sets and Lights for Angels in America also directed by Karen Kirkham. This production will be their second collaboration on the piece! Last September Trui designed sets and lights for Another Goodbye, a solo piece written and performed by Adie Mueller, which is planned to tour the UK. In  an earlier collaboration with Adie Mueller, Trui developed and designed My Heart, My Heart - Live Poetry Jukebox, a poetry performance project that toured the UK for five years. In December Hansel and Gretel with NIE will play at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol.

Over the years she has assisted on transfers to mayor theatres in London, Naples, Valencia, Tokyo, Vienna to name a few, 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.​