Stéphane Laimé, born in 1966 in La Terté-Bernard in France, completed stage design assistantships with directors Andrea Breth, Luc Bondy, Robert Wilson and Klaus Michael Grüber.
He has designed sets for productions by Stefan Pucher, Thomas Ostermeier and Thomas Dannemann at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Vienna Festival, the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Münchner Kammerspiele and in Hamburg at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the Thalia Theater.
In 2007 Stéphane Laimé received the Austrian Nestroy Theatre Prize and in 2008 the Opus Prize of the German Stage Association. In 2011, he was named Stage Designer of the Year by the magazine Theater heute for his work on Miller's Tod eines Handlungsreisenden (Schauspielhaus Zürich).
He has worked closely with director Jan Bosse since 1997. Together they have worked on Shakespeare's Hamlet (Schauspielhaus Zürich, 2007), Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (Maxim Gorki Theater, 2006), Büchner's Leonce and Lena (Thalia Theater, 2009), Chekhov's Platonov (Thalia Theater, 2012) and Dostoevsky's Der Spieler (Thalia in der Gauß, 2016), among others.
In 2018, Laimé worked with director Johan Simons for the first time at the Thalia Theater.
Current roles:
- Stage Design in Woyzeck