Costume Designer ,Stage Designer ,Exhibition Designer ,Interior Designer ,Sculptor, based in Vienna.

The many debut performances of lyrical opera – where she collaborated with contemporary composers such as Otto M. Zykan, H.K. Gruber, Giorgio Battistelli, Kurt Schwertsik, Christian Muthspiel, Gerd Kuehr, Gottfried von Einem, Dieter Kaufmann – certainly comprise a principal part of her work.
She has also collaborated with many contemporary choreographers, such as Elio Gervasi, Ismael Ivo, Liz King, etc..

Nevertheless, she also creates costumes for classical opera and ballet. Her „Giselle“ has been performed at the Vienna Opera for over 20 years and is still staged to this day.

She has continuosly worked with the Vienna Ensemble under Karl Welunschek, staging comedies by Nestroy, by Labiche…and dramas by Fontane, Shakespeare, etc..
Drama work also includes contemporary literature as seen in series of plays by Thomas Bernhard, staged in Frankfurt,  „The Birds“ by Aristophanes – Jonke, „That Face“ by Polly Stenham“ etc…

Moreover she has created costumes for musicals like „The Cabaret“, „Guys & Dolls“, and recreated the Vienna production of the „The Beauty and the Beast“, as well as the Vienna and Amsterdam productions of „Les Miserables“.

Exhibitions include „Musica Femina“ – a display focusing on female composers, exposed at the Imperial Palace of Schönbrunn (Vienna) and later in Bregenz, as well as an exhibition about D’Annunzio, which traveled all over Italy (Rome, L‘ Aquila, Viterbo)…

She has also created interior designs for Castle Sayn- Wittgenstein on the Rhine, for a Hotel in Isola Farnese and for several flats.

Clarisse Maylunas has lectured history of costume and scenic realisation of costume at the Max Reinhardt-Seminar, University of Vienna for 10 years