Top Girls
Directed by Susan Kerner
Montclair State University 2021
The costume design for Top Girls revolves around main character Marlene. Her structured blue skirt suit recalls British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose presence looms over this play about powerful working women and the people they leave behind on their way to the top. The women of history and myth in the opening dinner party inhabit Marlene’s world, with tailored lines, bold colors, and shiny, hard textures. Her working-class sister Joyce’s home is drawn in sharp contrast, with muted colors, softer lines, and worn-in textures.
They Might Be Giants
Choreography by Christian Von Howard
Montclair State University 2020
Inspired by 90s R&B and hip hop fashion, the dancers wore a variety of new silhouettes in monochromatic white punctuated with brightly-colored accents.
Alice in Wonderland (Paper Project)
Spring 2021
Here, the fragmented, nonsensical nature of Alice in Wonderland serves as a metaphor for the chaos of the internet. The inhabitants of wonderland represent various countercultures and niches an adolescent Alice might encounter with unfettered internet access.
Cloud 9 (Paper Project)
Fall 2019
First Place, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 2, Costume Design (Paper Project)
Matisse’s Bonheur De Vivre served as a visual reference for this play about sexuality, power dynamics, and colonialism. Creative doubling blurs boundaries between gender and age, which complicates the power dynamics at the heart of the play.