Salmah Beydoun is a scenic artist, architect and deviser of collective work based in Mexico City and LA. Her work includes theatrical, choreographic and art installation productions. In parallel to her performance design focused art practice she thrives as a motion graphics and 3D artist for multidisciplinary media.
Salmah is committed to crafting spaces that cultivate collaboration, filling them with possibilities that provoke visual dialogues. Her work explores the human condition, generating meaningful exchanges that invite openness to thought and transformation.
Salmah’s designs have been presented in venues like RedCat (Los Angeles), Studio Teatr (Warsaw), Boska Komedia International Theater Festival (Krakow), Centro Cultural del Bosque (Mexico), Grotowski Institute (Wroclaw) and Mandeville Gallery (San Diego).
She holds an Architecture degree from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a MFA in Scenic Design from the California Institute of the Arts. Since 2015, she has worked in many plays, operas, ballets and musicals such as; Cosí Fan Tutte, Carmen, Constallations, Rent, Le Nozze de Fígaro, and more. Salmah is recipient of the 2019 Princess Grace Award, Fabergé Theater Honor and received 2nd place in the 2022 World Stage Design in the emerging category.
Co-founder of Berenjena, a theater collective and dramaturgy publisher created by Mexican multidisciplinary artists devising new work for theater and film. Currently, she also works as a digital animator for The Mill design studio in New York, developing work for major companies like Meta, Google and Zara.