Bio

I am a costume designer and dramaturg specializing in new works and socially conscious theatre.  I think art should be both fun and difficult.  My costumes are clear, nuanced, stylized and honest expressions of character.  I like color and I like clothing that reshapes, ungenders, and/or dehumanizes the body.  I hold a B.A. in History from Smith College and an M.F.A. in Costume Design from The University of Texas at Austin.  I grew up in Houston and Buffalo, and have worked in Chicago, Austin, and New York City. I currently live and work in Buffalo, NY.

I designed costumes for University of Texas at Austin Theatre and Dance productions of In the Red and Brown Water, The Wild Party, and University of Texas New Theatre (a showcase of new works by MFA playwrights).  Both In the Red and Brown Water and The Wild Party  received nominations for Best Costume Design from the B. Iden Payne Awards and Austin Critics' Table Awards.  Austin costume credits include Fixing Timon of Athens with The Rude Mechanicals, Poor Herman and Catalina de Erauso with paper chairs, and a site-specific devised dance piece with Body Shift and Stephan Koplowitz.  Other work includes facilitating panels for the 2017 Cohen New Works Festival as Co-Chair of Engaging Research, dramaturgy for Penfold Theater's The Woman in Black, and my thesis, Visceral Design: Experiments in Creating the Uncanny for Live Performance.