Anastasia R. Simes, Resident Set and Costume Design

Anastasia Rurikov Simes was born in Moscow and graduated from the Surikov School of Fine Arts, Moscow, in 1987. Since arriving in Washington, DC in 1993, her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Washington, New York, and across Europe. Mrs. Rurikov Simes’ critically acclaimed drawings regularly appear in film and literary magazines. Her designs for the theater include Fathers and Sons with the Stanislavsky Theater Studio, Golconda with Bowen McCauley Dance, and The Master and Margarita, The Dybbuk, Frankenstein, Macbeth (Helen Hayes Nomination), Romeo and Juliet (Helen Hayes Nomination), Carmen, Dante (Helen Hayes Nomination), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helen Hayes Nomination), Dracula (Helen Hayes Nomination), Antony and Cleopatra, Othello (Helen Hayes Award – Outstanding Costume Design) and King Arthur with Synetic Theater. Mrs. Rurikov Simes holds an MFA from the Russian Institute of Cinematography.