Sasha Balmazi-Owen
Set, Costume & Video Designer
Awards
2025 Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production for Festen at The Royal Ballet & Opera
2020 Southbank Sky Arts Award for Opera for L’Enfant et les Sortileges (Vopera)
2020 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Opera for L’Enfant et les Sortiléges (Vopera)
Leverhulme Trust Major Scholarship for MFA Scenography Studies at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Nominations
2024 NODA South-East Awards for Best Opera for The Elixir of Love (White Rock Theatre)
Sasha is a set, costume & video designer. His iconoclastic practice is heavily influenced by his background in music, film & advertising.
He trained in filmmaking at the Kingston School of Art and scenography at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.
“The Makropulos Case- The Royal Opera House
This production team also deserves individual credits...Sasha Balmazi-Owen kept everything lively but not confusing up above with his video projections”
“A Visit to Friends- Britten Pears Arts
The ever-changing videos (Sasha Owen) sympathetically underscore the mood on stage”
“L’Enfant et les Sortiléges- Vopera
Much more fun for Vopera’s virtuosic video designers, Jamie Hall and Sasha Balmazi-Owen, who graft the grimacing heads of the singers on to Leanne Vandenbussche’s delightful animated drawings.”
“A Visit to Friends- Britten Pears Arts
The creative team certainly excel themselves... Sasha Owen’s striking video sequences, adding so much to the overall stage picture”
Gallery
2025
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| The Makropulos Case | The Royal Ballet & Opera, Dir. Katie Mitchell |
| A Visit to Friends | Britten Pears Arts, Dir. Rachael Hewer, Video Des. Sasha Balmazi-Owen | Fellow Travellers | Bloomsbury Theatre, UCL, Dir. Eleanor Strutt, Des. Sasha Balmazi-Owen | Candide | San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Costume Des. Sasha Balmazi-Owen | Festen | Royal Ballet & Opera, Dir. Richard Jones, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter, Movement Dir. Lucy Burge, Video Des. Sasha Balmazi-Owen |
2024
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Sky in a Small Cage | Barbican Concert Hall, Copenhagen DKDM Hall, Dir. Frederic Wake-Walker, Des. Sasha Balmazi-Owen | The Elixir of Love | White Rock Theatre, Dir. Eleanor Strutt, Des. Sasha Balmazi-Owen | The Crucible | Bloomsbury Theatre, UCL, Dir. Eleanor Strutt, Des. Sasha Balmazi-Owen |
2023
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Bermondsey 1986 | Cockpit Theatre, Video Des. Sasha Owen |
| The Nose Knows No Boundaries | Exhibit, Prague Quadrennial, Min Chien Feng & Sandri Irani, Des. Sasha Balmazi-Owen |
2022
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| 100 Words for Snow | OSO Arts Centre |
| KISS | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Costume Des. Sasha Balmazi-Owen |
2020
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Occupy the Pianos | St John's Smith Square |
| L'Enfant et les Sortileges | Vopera | Steel to Smoke | Music video, Neoclassical |