A leader in creative expression.
Boston University’s costume design & production program encourages students to strengthen their artistic expression, communication, and production skills through hands-on, mentored experiences within a wide range of theatrical opportunities and classroom instruction.
Taught by nationally-recognized professionals, our costume design & production program develops a complete theatre artist with a unique voice. Learn technical and conceptual sides of costume design and become an expert in taking a script and creating clothing that enhances the storytelling.
Through creative collaborations with designers, actors, and directors, students apply both artistic and practical approaches to the creation of costumes in various genres. BU’s costume design & production program offers one-on-one mentoring, and hands-on experience in specific areas of theatre practice using classroom knowledge.
We’ve seen our graduates take their skills and become successful designers, drapers, tailors, first hands, stitchers, wardrobe supervisors, costume shop managers, and more. Where you may ask? Our graduates are working at New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Huntington Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Santa Fe Opera, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and the list goes on. Did we mention our alums have even worked for Cirque du Soleil?!
My Life in Five Outfits
…some alums even become fashion historians, fact-checking the wardrobes of popular television series like The Queen’s Gambit and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Photo by Chris Sorensen
Photo by Chris Sorensen
Photo by Chris Sorensen
The Clothes Make the Character
Costume designers Joyce Kim Lee and Natalie Turturro Mettouchi dress tv & film performers for success
Meet More Costume Program Grads
- Fabian Aguilar (CFA’08)
- Earl J. Battle (CFA’04)
- Raissa Bretaña (CFA’13)
- DeMara Cabrera (CFA’13)
- Virgil Johnson (CFA’61)
- Chelsea Kerl (CFA’14)
- Stephanie Kim (CFA’94)
- Joyce Kim Lee (CFA’93)
- Erin Lenk (CFA’98)
- Richard MacPike (CFA’97)
- Matthew Malone (CFA’13)
- Nikki Moody (CFA’07)
- Anne Murphy (CFA’94)
- Deborah Nash (CFA’98)
- Tristan Raines (CFA’11)
- Laurel Schultz (CFA’11)
- Erik Teague (CFA’22)
Degrees Offered
Featured Faculty
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Nancy Lynn Leary
Associate Professor, Costume Design
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Susan E. Mickey
Director of School of Theatre; Professor, Costume Design
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Penney Pinette
Costume Shop Manager; Lecturer, Costume Production
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Denise Wallace-Spriggs
Lecturer, Costume Crafts
Bringing a Designer’s Eye to CFA School of Theatre
Susan E. Mickey, BU School of Theatre director and a professor of theatre, design, and production/costume design, also happens to be an award-winning costume designer. Mickey has worked with many of the nation’s major regional theaters, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
