Character Sketch: A Drawing Course for Costume Designers

About Helen Q Huang

Helen Q. Huang has designed costumes for theaters throughout the United States and abroad. The recipient of both the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design and the Ivey Awards she is also a professor of the MFA Costume Design Program in the School of Theatre Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland College Park.Helens design work has been exhibited as part of Costume at the Turn of the Century at the A.A. Bakhrushin Museum in Moscow; in the exhibition Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance at the New York Public Library and Lincoln Center; and the Prague Quadrennial. She has designed internationally for the China National Opera House and China Central Television. Nationally she has designed for Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Guthrie Theater George Street Playhouse The Classic Stage Company New York Milwaukee Repertory Theater The Childrens Theatre Company of Minneapolis Syracuse Stage Seattle Repertory Theatre Utah Shakespeare Festival The Wilma Theater Philadelphia Theatre Company Playmakers Repertory Theatre The Arden Theatre Disney Creative Entertainment and Boston Lyric Opera. Her designs in the Washington D.C. region have included work for The Washington Ballet Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Studio Theatre Folger Theatre Fords Theatre Round House Theatre Signature Theatre Arena Stage Shakespeare Theatre Company and Olney Theatre.