Manu Halligan, born in Rostock, completed her apprenticeship as a hairdresser and is a certified makeup artist. Previously for HGO, Manu Halligan was the hair and makeup designer for Turandot (2022). Her collaborations with Robert Wilson span productions including Leonce and Lena (Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, Germany, 2003); Shakespeare's Sonnets and Peter Pan (Berliner Ensemble, 2009 and 2013); and on a restaging of Einstein on the Beach (Asia Culture Center, Kwangju, 2015); Pushkin's Fairy Tales (Theater of Nations, Moscow, 2015); Edda (Det Norske Teatret, Oslo, 2017);The Sandman (Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, 2017); Turandot (Teatro Real, Madrid, 2018); La Live de la Jungle -in French and German (Grand Théatre de la Ville, Luxemburg and Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, 2019); Messiah (Haus für Mozart, Salzburg, 2020);, Dorian (Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, 2022); 3 Tall Women (Municipal Theater of Piraeus, Athen, 2023); Moby Dick (Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, 2024); and restagings of Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine (Teatro San Nicolò, Spoleto, 2017, and Theatre Converge, Huichang, 2025). She also served as makeup artist for Wilson’s performances, and designed makeup and wigs for Peter Stein's staging of Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape (2013), starring Klaus Maria Brandauer. In 2025, she was hired by the Greek National Opera to design hair, makeup, and wigs for Turandot, which opened the Athens Epidaurus Festival. She has worked on major Hollywood productions including The Hunger Games, Point Break, and A Cure for Wellness; films including Munich -The Edge of War, The Empress, and King's Land; and television series including The Queen's Gambit.