Costume Designer

Song for New York, was a site-specific piece of musical theatre, composed of five poems written by five female writers – one poem representing each of the five boroughs that make up New York City. The show was performed on a barge floating in the East River with audiences seated on a pier in Long Island City. The set was modeled after a bridge, with the skyline of Manhattan providing a very powerful backdrop, reminding us how the city was built; its bridges, its tunnels, and its skyscrapers. The poems were set to music and performed by live musicians from many different musical traditions.  Each one of five characters was based on a different bird, each of which was native to New York’s five boroughs. Costumes – designed using origami techniques and built through puppetry mechanisms – would open, close and transform throughout the songs to support the dramaturgy of the poems and the dynamics of the music.