Claudia Stephens

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Claudia Stephens

Associate Professor

While based in NYC, Claudia designed opera, theater and dance In NYC and nationally. While continuing to free-lance costume design, Claudia moved to Dallas in 1997 to teach at SMU . During her 30 years as a costume designer, she has designed over 1 4 0 productions in NYC and across the United States. Claudia’s students are currently working in the costume industry, residing in NYC, LA, Chicago, Texas, Florida, Idaho and Oklahoma.

In New York City Claudia’s designs have been seen at Lincoln Center, Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music , Playwrights Horizons, Dance Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages, Classic Stage Company, Soho Repertory Theatre, and others.

On Broadway, including Broadway tours, Claudia has worked with Stephen Sondheim , Ann Hould - Ward and Cleo Laine , Into The Woods Nat’l T our; James Lapine , Ann Hould - Ward and Stephen Bogardus , Falsettos ; Bernadette Peters, Martin Short, Neil Simon and Sa nto Loquasto , The Goodbye Girl ; Neil Simon, Alan Alda , Kate Burton and Santo Loquas to , Jake’s Women; Gene Saks, Kevin Spacey, Mercedes Ruhl and Santo Loquasto , Lost in Yonkers: William Ivey Long , Phillip Bosco and Victor Garber, Lend Me A Tenor . http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=106602

In the United States, her opera and theatre designs have been seen at Portland Opera, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespearean Festival, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Denver Center Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Merrimack Theater, Triad Theatre, and others.

A member of Big Dance Theatre Dance Company since 1995 , Claudia’s costume designs for dance have been seen in NYC, the United States and Europe. http://www.bigdancetheater.org/

R ecently, Claudia has designed the southwest premiere of the opera Angels in America , with David Gately and the Ft. Worth Opera; Comme Toujours Here I Stand , with Big Dance Theatre, premiering in Lyon France, April 2009; Back, Back, Back, with Hall Brooks, opening at the Dallas Theater Center February, 2009; Before Night Falls , with David Gately and Riccardo Hernandez and the Ft. Worth Opera, opening May 2010. http://fwothescoop.ning.com/