Yan Tax

The native Dutchman studied fashion design in Breda and has been working as a costume designer since the 1970s for film, TV and stage. He has designed costumes for numerous Musical productions, including Levay’s Elisabeth in Germany, Die drei Musketiere, Cyrano, Sunset Boulevard, Ciske de Rat and Ich war noch niemals in New York in Hamburg and at Raimund Theater. Opera productions (he has been in a close collaboration with Harry Kupfer and Hans Schavernoch for years) brought him to Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Dresden, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Florence, Bern and Helsinki. Yan Tax is responsible for the costume design of more than fifty films. His costume design of the show Cyrano – The Musical on Broadway was nominated for a Tony Award in 1994. In 2008 he was nominated for D