I am currently the Assistant Professor of Costume Design at Purdue University and a professional costume designer and crafts artisan, and have worked for The Santa Fe Opera, American Players Theatre, American Lives Theatre, The Houston Shakespeare Festival, Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, Tennessee, The Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre, Theatre Memphis, and Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre, among others. My designs and craft work span from opera to drama, musical theatre to children’s theatre, and from commercial to traditional craftwork. I have also taught and designed at The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma City University, The University of Wisconsin at Madison, and at Millikin University.

As a designer I love abstract and architectural aesthetics— I adore creating new shapes, textures, and silhouettes. I also dearly love research and will find ways to include referential details in all of my work.

My creative research spans from Posthumanism to New Materialisms, and from design pedagogies to social and cultural aesthetics. I am a designer, a crafter, and a writer— and a teacher.

Editor, ReFashioning Pedagogies: New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles

BA, Theatre Design and BA, English; The University of the South at Sewanee

MFA, Theatre Design (Scenery and Costume); The University of Memphis

PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies; The University of Wisconsin at Madison