Marie La Rocca

Costume designer

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Marie LaRocca - ©Colombe Clier

A graduate of the École Boulle and the Lycée La Source, she completed her training at the École du Théâtre National de Strasbourg with Group 36.

For the final workshop at the École du T.N.S. in 2007, she worked alongside Alain Françon on the set design for Children of the Sun. She reunited with him starting in 2016 to design costumes for all his productions, from Time and the Room to The Italian Straw Hat in September 2023.

She also designed costumes and sets with Célie Pauthe from 2010 to 2015, costumes with Ludovic Lagarde for theater and opera since 2014, and worked with Chloé Dabert since 2018. 
She has also collaborated with Laurent Pelly, Yves Lenoir, Lucie Hanoy within the Big Up Company, Yasmina Reza, Jeanne Herry, Marie Rémond and Caroline Arrouas, Nicolas Petisoff, Matthieu Cruciani for The Night Just Before the Forests, Suzanne de Baecque for Tenir Debout, and with Vimala Pons for Le Périmètre de Denver.

In cinema, she created costumes for director Aurélie Reinhorn on Raout Pacha, Son Altesse Protocole, and SCALP.

At the opera, she designed costumes for Marta at the Opéra de Lille and Nozze Di Figaro at the Opéra du Rhin, both directed by Ludovic Lagarde. She designed the costumes for Orfeo, directed by Yves Lenoir at the Opéra de Dijon, and Il Nerone, based on The Coronation of Poppea, directed by Alain Françon at the Académie de l’Opéra de Paris.

She also created the costumes for Les Enfants Terribles, directed by Phia Ménard, Salomé, directed by Cyril Teste at the Vienna Staatsoper, Andromaque, directed by Matthieu Cruciani at the Opéra de Saint-Etienne, and more recently for L’Olimpiade, directed by Emmanuel Daumas at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in June 2024.