Salmah Beydoun is a scenic artist, architect, and collective work deviser based in Mexico City and Los Angeles. Her portfolio includes theatrical, choreographic, and art installation productions. In parallel to her performance design-focused practice, she thrives as a motion graphics and 3D artist for multidisciplinary media.
Salmah is dedicated to crafting spaces that foster 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.
Her designs have been showcased at venues such as 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).
Salmah holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and an MFA in Scenic Design from the California Institute of the Arts. Since 2015, she has contributed as a scenic assistant to numerous plays, operas, ballets, and musicals, including Così Fan Tutte, Carmen, Constellations, Rent, Le Nozze di Figaro, and more.
Co-founder of Berenjena, a theater collective and dramaturgy publisher created by Mexican multidisciplinary artists.
She also works as a motion graphics designer, specializing in 2D Animation, UI Animation, Graphic Design, and Typography. In addition to motion graphics, she contributes to concepting and ideation for 3D projects, including interior design, sets, and environments.
She is a recipient of the 2019 Princess Grace Award, the Fabergé Theater Honor, and earned 2nd place in the 2022 World Stage Design Emerging Category. She is also the winner of the OPERA America 2025 Robert L. B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize.
