Jelena Nagorni studied stage and costume design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. After a guest semester at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, she graduated as a master student in 2008. From 2007 to 2009 she was employed as an assistant stage designer at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel and the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Since 2009 she has been working as a freelance stage and costume designer at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Hanover, the Leipzig and Regensburg Oper, the Schauspielhaus Zurich, Cologne and Graz, the Berliner Ensemble, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Darmstadt and the Deutsches Theater Göttingen. She has worked with directors such as Lily Sykes, Matthias Reichwald, Jenke Nordalm, Simon Solberg and Tobias Rausch. Leben des Galilei is her third collaboration with Nicolas Stemann.
