Is a Chicago-based costume designer. Recent projects
include Great Society for Famous Door Theatre Company, Playwrights
Horizons' production of I Am My Own Wife and About Face Youth Theatre's
Where We Are Now at the Goodman's Owen Theatre. Chicago credits include
Fascination, I Am My Own Wife and Theatre District with About Face
Theatre; The Barber of Seville and Rigoletto for L'Opera Piccola;
The Cider House Rules Parts 1 and 2 for Famous Door Theater; The
Drawer Boy, The Ordinary Yearnings of Miriam Buddwing, The Infidel, Goodbye
Stranger, Our Town and The Designated Mourner for Steppenwolf Theatre
Company; and The Joy of the Desolate for Apple Tree Theatre. Regional
credits include Agnes of God for Indiana Repertory Theater, directed by
Anna Shapiro. She has an MFA in costume design from Northwestern
University.
I am my own wife by Doug Wright on broadway, lyceum
theatre. Starring Jefferson Mays, Directed by Moises Kaufamn. I Am My Own Wife: Based on a true story, and inspired by interviews conducted by the playwright over several years, I AM MY OWN WIFE tells the fascinating tale of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a real-life German transvestite who managed to survive the Nazi onslaught as well as the following, repressive Communist regime. The one-man play stars Obie-Award winner Jefferson Mays as over 40 characters, including the controversial figure herself and the American writer who becomes intrigued by her.
