Thomas Mika studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater and created his first piece as a set and costume designer for Staatsballett Berlin in 2006. Since then, he has created set and costume designs for many modern and classical ballet productions worldwide, including classical ballets such as John Cranko’s Onegin and Romeo and Juliet, Derek Dean’s The Lady of the Camellias, Aleksei Fadeechev’s and Nina Ananashvili’s Don Quixote, as well as works choreographed by Alejandro Cerrudo, Edward Clug, Leo Mujic, Kevin O’Day, and more.
Mika has collaborated worldwide with ballet companies such as Stuttgart Ballet, The National Ballet of China, Universal Ballet Seoul, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Hungarian National Ballet, Polish National Ballet and the Royal Ballet of Flanders, to name a few.