Merle Hensel works internationally in a wide variety of styles and genres.
Theatre includes: The House of Bernarda Alba; Under Milk Wood; Top Girls (costumes); Protest Song (National Theatre London); Streetcar named Desire (Almeida/West End) (costumes); Cock (West End); The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse London) (costumes); Macbeth (National Theatre of Scotland/Lincoln Center/Broadway/Japan tour); Green Snake (National Theatre of China) (set); Shun-Kin (Theatre de Complicite at Setagaya Tokyo and Barbican London) (set); King Lear (Almeida London) (set); All of It; The Glow; Ear for Eye; a profoundly affectionate passionate devotion to someone (-noun), X, The Mistress Contract (Royal Court London); Enemy of the People (Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis) (set); Macbeth (costumes); The Shawl (Young Vic London); Arden of Faversham (RSC); Glasgow Girls (& national tour); 27; The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland); Ippolit (Sophiensaele/ Schauspielhaus Zürich/ Münchner Kammerspiele) and Der Verlorene (Sophiensaele, Berlin).
Opera includes: Aida (Royal Danish Opera) (set); Die Schöpfung (Oper Köln); Until the Lions (Opéra National du Rhin); Der Vetter Aus Dingsda (Oper Graz) (costumes); Lunatics (Kunstfest Weimar) (set); Münchhausen Herr Der Lügen (Neuköllner Oper, Berlin).
Dance includes: The Barbarians In Love (costumes); Sun (set); Political Mother (costumes) (Hofesh Shechter Company at Sadler's Wells/world tour); Il Combattimento; Contagion (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance); Tenebre (Ballett am Rhein); 8 Minutes (Alexander Whitley Dance Company) (costumes); Lovesong (Frantic Assembly); James Son Of James; The Bull; The Flowerbed (Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre); Justia and Park (Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company).
Film includes: Morituri Te Salutant (costumes) and Baby (costumes).