Author, director, visual artist, set and costume designer, Macha Makeïeff has designed numerous theatrical and operatic productions. In opera, she has collaborated with John Eliott Gardiner, William Christie, Louis Langrée, Christophe Rousset, Laurence Equilbey... Her repertoire is very varied. While Molière has been a major part of her work in recent years - notably with Trissotin ou Les Femmes savantes (2015) which successfully toured as far as China, and with Tartuffe Théorème (2021) - she has also, in the same period, directed Lewis versus Alice in Avignon in 2019, and Bulgakov's The Flight in 2021.
As a costume designer, she regularly participates in productions by Jérôme Deschamps and Jean Bellorini. She has also curated several exhibitions - at the Cinémathèque française, the Fondation Cartier and the Grand Palais.
After having been artistic director of the Théâtre de Nîmes from 2003 to 2008, Macha Makeïeff directed La Criée -Théâtre national de Marseille from 2011 to 2022, where she developed a programme combining theatre, music, dance, images, plastic arts and circus. Since July 2022, she has created her company Mademoiselle based in Aix-en-Provence, which focuses on both creation and transmission in art schools. She is currently preparing an exhibition for the Mucem and working on a theatrical adaptation of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Qui je suis.