Mira Clare Woker is a Denmark-based artist and set and costume designer for theatre, dance, opera, music, and performance, who has lived and worked in New York in the United States, Russia, Argentina, and Italy. She has created set and costume design for critically acclaimed theatre productions, dance, and vocal ensembles.
Her costumes appeared at the cultural programs of Sochi Olympic Games 2014 and Astana Expo 2017. In 2022 she received a Government Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Musical and Performing Arts for her work on the musical "Vinyl". Mira has also created costumes for the revival of "Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov at the Brick Theatre in New York that was nominated for an Outstanding Revival of a Play by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. She was a costume designer for the awarded contemporary play "Savana Glacial" at Irondale Center in New York as part of the International New York Fringe Festival. Among other notable works is a long-standing collaboration with the famous dance ensemble “Ural”, brilliantly representing national culture in Russia as well as in Europe, U.S. and Asia.
Her art installation “Birth of a Butterfly” at the Saint Petersburg Dostoevsky Museum was featured on Russia’s major radio stations, including “Radio Russia” and “Radio Petersburg,” as well as the “Cultural Evolution” program on TV station “Saint Petersburg.”
Her other major works include the operas "Thumbelina" at the Chelyabinsk Philharmonic Hall and "Snow Maiden" at the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus, in addition to the operetta "Silva" at the Belarusian State Academic Musical Theatre. She has also worked on the musicals "The Secret of Her Youth" at the Zagursky Irkutsk State Musical Theatre and “Vivat, Hercules!”, which was part of the cultural program of the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014.
Mira studied at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, under one of the most renowned contemporary Russian theatre designers, Vyacheslav Okunev.
"...the zodiac signs in the hands of mysterious characters without faces in the flowing dark robes, boldly illuminated by bulbs as in a circus, but not creating an impression of the circus - by virtue of the majestic plasticity, immersion in an unusual space that seems endless. How beautiful that was!"
- Elena Tretyakova in reference to the opera "The Snow Maiden", Petersburg Theatre Magazine
"The exquisite costumes of the actors in the cabaret "Orpheum "(Rain Man, Snake Woman, Cage with Butterflies, etc.) turn each character's appearance into an act of art, into a mini-play with its own plot and concept." (in reference to the operetta "Silva" at the Belarusian State Academic Music Theatre)
- Susanna Tsiryuk, theatre director, winner of the Golden Mask Award, winner of Russian and European theatre awards.
