2016 | Portland Opera
Photographs by Cory Weaver
The Olympic Games was a collaboration with photographer Santiago Forero that examines classical ideas of virility and the idealized human form. The life size portraits feature uniform were designed to highlight the unique proportions of Santiago's body and used the colors, materials, and handcrafted textures associated with his native Columbia. The uniforms combine burlap, salvaged sportswear and athletic accessories with hand painted logos and rough finish treatments.
2010 | The University of Texas at Austin
The Difficulty of Crossing the Field is an opera based on an Ambrose Bierce story of the mysterious disappearance Mr. Williamson in a wide-open field. Memory and logic are increasingly distorted as seven different versions of the story are recounted from the shifting perspective of Williamson’s family, a court hearing, and a chorus of slaves. This distortion is manifested in the costumes with an exaggeration of scale and pattern. Overly artificial treatments including sculptural wigs, stamped brocaded vest patterns, and printed lace trims enhance cutout scenic elements in the architecturally driven realms of the Courtroom and Williamson Porch. Standing in high contrast are the organic textures of the chorus and field: long tied cotton bags and applied cording create a woven web over deconstructed layers of dress shirts, trousers, and petticoats.
*Winner of the 2012 Austin Critics Table Award for Costume Design
2010 Feature Film, Drama
Cinematographer Marcel Rodriquez
2014 | Monk Parrots at La MaMa
2015 | Portland Center Stage
Photographs by Patrick Weishampel
2009 | The University of Texas at Austin
Adapted from Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, this production chronicles the demise of Prince Myshkin, whose genuine nature is manipulated and destroyed when an unexpected inheritance launches him into a nineteenth century Russian society in moral decay. Using the period silhouette as a departure point for layering broader signage for a society dominated by materialistic pursuits, the costume design combines knitwear separates and accessories from contemporary resort wear and red carpet fashion with sleek Victorian style lines. The approach intends to draw parallels between Victorian bourgeois concerns with status and our own preoccupations with climbing the social ladder.
*Nominated for the 2009 Austin Critics Table Award for Costume
In Search of Eden was a collaboration with the Boston based Triiibe collective developed for the 808 Gallery, a former car showroom in the heart of Boston. The series of photographs used apples as a thematic thread for exploring the tension between our perceptions of utopia and its disappointing achievement. The seven scenes featuring the identical Casilio triplets were displayed in 8’x10’ triptych panels that fit in the windows of the space.
2011 | Short Film, Drama
Naveen left India to chase his dreams in America. Three years after leaving India to chase his dreams in America, Naveen is finally joined his wife and son. FATAKRA ("Firecracker") tells the story of the sparks that fly on their first day together as dreams collide with reality.
Cinematography Iskra Valtcheva
2009 | The University of Texas at Austin
Since this adaptation of Trojan Women reexamined the Euripides classic through a contemporary lens, I chose to use clothing from our current fashion vernacular to insinuate a familiar world of affluence in a state of complete devastation. The women of Troy emerged from ruins leveled by war and stripped of identity: hair shorn, battered, blood stained, their palms branded with an owl insignia. The brutal, but sophisticated Greek army was characterized by an army of hooded soldiers and clinically clad bureaucrats, led by a casual, yet charismatic king obsessed with political image.
Winner of the 2010 Austin Critics Table Award - Costume Design
2010 | ZACH Theatre
Photographs by Kirk Tuck
2015 | Portland Center Stage
Photographs by Patrick Weishampel
2012 | Kansas City Repertory Theatre
Photographs by Don Ipok
2014 | ZACH Theatre
The King And I is a Rogers & Hammerstein musical based on the derived memoirs of Anna Leonowen, which recounts her time as governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860's.
*Winner of the 2014 Central Texas Excellence in Theatre Award
*Nominated for the 2014 Austin Critics Table Award for Costume Design
Photographs by Kirk Tuck
