Mimi Maxmen [ resume ] [ bio ] [ website ]
Mimi Maxmen has designed costumes and scenery for film, Broadway, Off-Broaway, opera, and ballet. Film credits include "The Lightkeepers" (Richard Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner, Mamie Gummer, Tom Wisdom), "Tumbleweeds" (starring Oscar nominee Janet McTeer) "Lucky Bastard" (Production and Costume Designer), "Corporate Affairs" (Breckin Meyer, Adam Scott), "Perestroika" (Sam Robards, Ally Sheedy), "Luster" (Justin Herwich, Willie Garson), "The Mesmerist" (Jessica Capshaw, Neil Patrick Harris), "A Midsummer Night's Rave" (Andrew Keegan), "The Singing Detective", Associate Costume Designer (Robert Downey, Jr., Mel Gibson, Robin Wright Penn).
New York theatre credits: "Uncle Vanya" (starring Tom Courtenay, Amanda Donohoe, James Fox) , "Sight Unseen" (Matthew Arkin), "Inadmissible Evidence" (Nicol Williamson and Philip Bosco), "A Shayna Maidel", "Becket", "The Frogs", "Turn of the Screw" (set and costumes), "The Play's the Thing", "Vieux Carre", "North Shore Fish", "The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers" (Jay O. Sanders), "Moonchildren" (Kevin Anderson, Cynthia Nixon), "Public Enemy" by Kenneth Branagh (Briand D'Arcy James), "Today I Am a Fountain Pen", "A...My Name Is Alice", "The Seagull", "Twelfth Night", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Hamlet", "Macbeth".
She has worked with directors Stephen Zuckerman, Everett Lewis, Don Scardino, Braham Murray, Gil Cates, Jr., Mary B. Robinson, Robert Berlinger, Anthony Page.
She has also designed for opera and ballet. Among her opera credits are "Ariadne auf Naxos" for Santa Fe Opera, starring Susan Graham and Ben Heppner, directed by Robert Carsen; and Virgil Thompson's "Lord Byron" (Alice Tully Hall) and "The Mother of Us All", Ballet credits include "The Sleeping Beauty" (Scenery and Costume Design), "Swan Lake", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "La Dame aux Camelias" (Ballet Santiago, Chile), and ballets for the New York City, Joffrey, Metropolitan Opera Ballet companies, and many U.S. regional companies.
She currently teaches at the New School/Parsons School of Design where she is a part-time Assistant Professor. She serves on the Advisory Committee of tdf/The Costume Collection, and is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 and The Costume Designers' Guild, Local 892.