Sunday, March 1, 2009

Who's Who in the Crew? Spotlight on: the Costume and Prop Designer


CHRISTINA WRIGHT has designed costumes for the world premiere of Phillip Glass and Robert Wilson's Monsters of Grace; international productions of Bill Viola's Memoria and Quintet of the Astonished; and most recently, for Native Voices' production of Diane Glancy's Salvage. Other favorites: Culture Clash's The Birds at the Getty Villa; James Joyce's The Dead at the Open Fist Theatre Company; Surfing DNA at East/West Players; Transformations, Notes: On Performance at the Wallenboyd Theatre; and The Mystery of Irma Vep and The Rocky Horror Show at the Tiffany Theatre. For the past eight years, she has loved designing and creating costumes and props for various productions with Native Voices at the Autry. Other clients include: Berkeley Rep Theatre, BRC Imagination Arts, The Getty Center, Artistry Entertainment and the Bedford Thompson Shakespeare Company. She was most recently honored by receiving the First Americans in the Arts 2007 Trustee Award for her work with Native Voices. She has also won the LA Drama Critics' Circle Award, Garland Awards, Drama-Logue Awards, an Ovation nomination, and an NAACP Award nomination for her other costume design work.

I only met Christina briefly at our rehearsal Saturday, but she is really cool, so I checked out her website: http://www.christinacostume.com/
I particularly loved her other creations! She has a store shop on Etsy.com - a website for talented artists to share and sell clothing, jewelry, stylized furniture, photographs, paintings, etc. If you visit her website, you can check it out... plus you can see photos from the shows she's costumed!

1 comment:

jan said...

CHRISTINA ROCKS!! Check out the website!! she's such a versatile and independent designer. I'd hire or suggest her for any type of work, stage or film.