Education/Training: M.F.A. in Set and Costume Design from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1988; B.F.A. in Set Design from Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, China 1982.
Areas of Specialization/Interest: ostume design, Scenic design, Painting and Drawing
Professional Affiliations: United Scenic Artists Local 829
Representative Productions:
Costume design for many regional and Washington area theatres, including: The Real Thing at the Guthrie Theatre; Twelfth Night at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; M. Butterfly at Philadelphia Theatre Company; Finding Nemo: The Mu-SEA-cal at Disney Entertainment, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at Syracuse Stage; Rock'n'Roll at Studio Theatre, Measure for Pleasure at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Monkey King at the Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis; Hamlet at Utah Shakespeare Festival; Mary Stuart at Milwaukee Reperatory Theatre; The Daughter of the Regiment at The Boston Lyric Opera; A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Shakespeare Theatre Company; Oak and Ivy at Arena Stage; Olney Theatre Center. Work at: Pan Asian Reperatroy Theatre, The Central Television of China, and the Central Opera House, Beijing, China. Upcoming projects: Dirty Blonde at Signature Theatre, The Rivalry at Ford's Theatre, Moonlight at The Studio Theatre, and The Picture of Dorian Gray at Round House Theatre.
Honors and Awards:
Exhibition of costume renderings in "Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance" at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, 2009; Inclusion of costume design work in the 2007 Prague Quadrennial; 2009 Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design for Stunning at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; 2000 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design for Indian Ink at The Studio Theatre; Creative and Performing Arts awards for 1998 and 2003 at the University of Maryland.
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