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TELEVISION PRODUCER NETWORK/STUDIO CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND (Pilot & Series) Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh-McKenna CW/CBS Television Dir: Marc Webb (Pilot) CAGNEY AND LACEY (Pilot) Bridget Carpenter CBS Television/MGM Dir: Rosemary Rodriguez THE GET (Pilot) Bridget Carpenter CBS Television Dir: James Strong NO TOMORROW (Pilot) Corinne Brinkerhoff CW/CBS Televition Dir: Brad Silberling SUPERSTORE (Pilot) Justin Spitzer NBC/Universal Television Dir: Ruben Fleischer STATE OF AFFAIRS (Pilot) Alexi Hawley Universal Television Dir: Joe Carnahan GUYS WITH KIDS (Pilot & Series) Jimmy Fallon NBC/Universal Television Dir: Scott Ellis (Pilot) BROTHERS AND SISTERS Greg Berlanti, Jon Robin Baitz ABC/Touchstone (Season 2: Episodes 13-16, Seasons 3-5) MISS GUIDED (Series) Caroline Williams ABC/20th Century Fox Dir: Todd Holland (Pilot) HITCHED (Pilot) Josh Schwartz CBS/Warner Brothers Dir: Rob Greenberg PLAYING CHICKEN (Pilot) Sean Anders, Seth Morris FOX/Warner Brothers Dir: John Pasquin 20 GOOD YEARS (Pilot & Series) Marsh McCall NBC/Warner Brothers Dir: Terry Hughes INSEPARABLE (Pilot) Joe Port, Joe Wiseman CBS/NBC Universal Dir: Pam Fryman THAT 80’S SHOW (Pilot & Series) Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, Mark Brazill FOX/Carsey-Werner Dir: David Trainer THAT 70’S SHOW (Pilot & Series) Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, Mark Brazill FOX/Carsey-Werner Dir: Terry Hughes THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN (Pilot & Series) Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner NBC/Carsey-Werner NORMAL, OHIO Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, Bob Kushell NBC/Carsey-Werner (Pilot & Season 1: Episodes 1-6) TOWNIES (Pilot) Matthew Carlson ABC/Carsey-Werner Dir: Pam Fryman THE MARTIN SHORT SHOW (Series/Special) John Blanchard NBC SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Seasons 16-19) Lorne Michaels NBC LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN Lorne Michaels NBC (Wardrobe Redesign for Hosts) FILM DIRECTOR PRODUCER STUDIO BROTHERS SOLOMON (Will Forte) Bob Odenkirk Tom Werner Sony/Revolution Films WAYNE’S WORLD II (Mike Myers) Stephen Surjik Lorne Michaels Paramount Pictures
THEATRE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION BEAUTY (Perrault & Others) Tina Landau LaJolla Playhouse SPACE (Tina Landau) Tina Landau Mark Taper Forum & The Public Theater FLOYD COLLINS (Tina Landau & Adam Tina Landau Old Globe Theater, The Goodman Theatre, Guettal) American Music Theater Festival & Playwrights Horizons AS YOU LIKE IT (Shakespeare) Adrian Hall Delacorte Theatre, Shakespeare in the Park THE TREATMENT (Martin Crimp) Marcus Stern The Public Theatre THE DESTINY OF ME (Larry Kramer) Marshall Mason Circle Repertory Theatre & Lucille Lortel TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Marc Milbauer Cucuracha Theatre (Shakespeare) THE ORESTEIA (Aeschylus) Doug McKeown Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre QUILLS (Doug Wright) Adrian Hall Geffen Playhouse STATES OF INDEPENDENCE Tina Landau American Music Theater Festival (Ricky Gordon) RECKLESS (Craig Lucas) Lisa Peterson Hartford Stage Company SUMMER IN SMOKE Jim Simpson Yale Repertory Theatre (Tennessee Williams) PHAEDRA AND HIPPOLYTUS Chris Grabowski Yale Repertory Theatre (Elizabeth Egloff) THE SWAN PLAY (Elizabeth Egloff) Marcus Stern Yale School of Drama LIFE IS A DREAM (Calderon) Marcus Stern Yale School of Drama HISTORY MAN (Bill Corbett) Marc Milbauer Yale School of Drama TITUS ANDRONICUS (Shakespeare) Marc Milbauer Yale School of Drama KRAPP’S LAST TAPE (Beckett) Marcus Stern Yale School of Drama APOCALYPTIC BUTTERFLIES Marcus Stern New Arts Theatre (Wendy MacLeod) PETER PAN (Musical) Edward Stone Pennsylvania Centre Stage at Penn State THE LADY FROM THE SEA (Ibsen) Eve Shapiro The Juilliard School MAN AND SUPERMAN (Shaw) Eve Shapiro The Juilliard School OVERRULED & HOW HE LIED TO HER Gavin Cameron-Webb The Juilliard School HUSBAND (Shaw) A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Kent Thompson The Juilliard School (Shakespeare) THE MEDEA PROJECT Eva Brenner Castillo Theatre Center (Heiner Muller & Euripides) CABARET (Kander & Ebb) Tina Landau Pierson College, Yale THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE (Brecht) Richard Hamburger Yale Dramatic Association THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (Webster) THE CHERRY ORCHARD (Chekhov) Charles Geyer Yale Dramatic Association Lisa Peterson Yale Dramatic Association AWARDS & NOMINATIONS EMMY NOMINATION That 70’s Show 2002, 2003 & 2004 EMMY AWARD That 70’s Show, “That Disco Episode” 1999 EMMY AWARD Third Rock From The Sun, “Nightmare on Dick Street (3D Sequences) 1997 EMMY NOMINATION Third Rock From The Sun, “36, 24, 36 Dick” 1998 COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD AWARD NOMINATION That 70’s Show 2000, 2001, 2003 & 2005 COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD AWARD NOMINATION Third Rock From The Sun 2000 DRAMA DESK NOMINATION As You Like It, Shakespeare in the Park 1992
EDUCATION YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA MFA Design Class of 1990 YALE COLLEGE BA English Class of 1983
RELATED EXPERIENCE Adjunct Professor, Chapman University, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts; Costume Design 2013 Guest Lecturer, Art Center, Pasadena “Set Design,” Prof. Eddy Garvin 2006 Boston University Summer Program; Costume History at the Victoria & Albert Museum 1989 with Janet Arnold, Madeline Ginsburg, Anne Buck; London, UK Art Students Leauge, New York, NY 1983-1986 Internship with Patricia Zipprodt, Costume Designer 1983-1984 Internship with The Juilliard School Costume Shop 1984-1985 President, Vice President, Secretary; Yale University Dramatic Association 1980-1983