Brooklyn College Costume Shop and MFA/BFA Costume Design Program

08/02/2022

We are so proud of the Brooklyn College costume design team and all the other participants!

Akhnaten Design Competition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaGZfwDEDZg&t=259s
The Met recently partnered with Housing Works and the Brooklyn Public Library to host an Akhnaten-inspired design competition for students from six New York City colleges. Videography by Kayhl Cooper and Martin Awano. 2021–22 season.

The Met recently partnered with Housing Works and the Brooklyn Public Library to host an Akhnaten-inspired design competition for students from six New York ...

05/25/2022

Congratulations to our fabulous Costume Design Students for winning the Metropolitan Opera Akhnaten Design Challenge!!

Check out the article on the Brooklyn College website:
https://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/bcnews_220520b.php #

09/12/2021

The only way to beat Covid-19 is for everyone to get vaccinated. I am vaccinated, everyone in the costume shop is vaccinated, and my whole family is vaccinated... but we need everyone to beat this! And you could win the raffle!

Did you get vaccinated already? If the answer is YES, fill out this form for a chance to win a laptop, gift cards, metro cards, or one of the many prizes that we will be raffling off during this fall semester. CUNY students attending in-person and hybrid classes for the fall 2021 semester are requir...

09/12/2021

Did you get vaccinated already? If the answer is YES, fill out this form for a chance to win a laptop, gift cards, metro cards, or one of the many prizes that we will be raffling off during this fall semester. CUNY students attending in-person and hybrid classes for the fall 2021 semester are requir...

06/09/2021

Brooklyn College Department of Theater alum actor Jimmy Smits honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Don't miss Jimmy in the upcoming movie version of the Broadway sensation In The Heights.

Actor Jimmy Smits, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 3. Smits, 65, a Brooklyn College alumnus, has starred in several hit television shows and films, including “The West Wing,” “NYPD Blue,” “Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith,....

05/25/2021

It's Design Week! Don't miss our graduating design students at Design Showcase East! Congratulations all!!

04/30/2021

Don't miss the 10-Minute Play Festival! Tickets are FREE!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/10-minute-play-festival-tickets-151985826699

The Brooklyn College Department of Theater presents: 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL

04/29/2021

A reading of The Laramie Project brought to you by the undergraduate producing theater course begins Saturday 05/01. Don't miss it!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-laramie-project-tickets-150120802361

In association with Brooklyn College Department of Theater, directed by Nick Browne.

04/28/2021

A big congratulations to PIMA alum Jared Mezzocchi for this brilliant interview in the NY Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/theater/jared-mezzocchi-geffen-playhouse.html

The projection designer Jared Mezzocchi has become a go-to guy for ambitious virtual productions. Next up: Starring in his own haunted house play.

04/26/2021

Gunplay - streaming begins April 30th.

Through dramatic vignettes and monologues – historical, contemporary, humorous, informative, and poignant – and played by a multicultural ensemble, Gunplay's kaleidoscope of views explores the mystique, mythologies, romance, and power of guns in American society. Tickets: http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/theater/

03/26/2021

Theater Industry Workers! Vaccines coming your way....
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/theater/broadway-vaccinations-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Theater

Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the city would create a vaccination site for theater workers to try to help Broadway shows reopen by the fall.

03/24/2021

Costume Designers are the next fashion influencers, especially during the pandemic....

Forget Instagram. Cherchez the costume designers. It’s time they got their due.

03/22/2021

Two more chances to see , a fully devised work by our students in the Brooklyn College Department of Theater!!

03/01/2021

TICKETS AVAILABLE ON EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/that-pretty-pretty-or-the-rape-play-tickets-137820999319

02/19/2021

The feathers of Carnival, "a celebration of women's glory." The photos in this article are gorgeous! Enjoy!

A vibrant, skimpy ensemble worn at a Caribbean Carnival is so much more than a visual delight: “It’s a celebration of women’s glory in themselves.”

02/08/2021

"Now, at 87, Paul Huntley has decided to take a final bow."

Challenged physically and financially, Paul Huntley, a backstage legend whose artistry is demanded in many a star’s contract, says this show will be his last.

02/03/2021

"The humble headband has morphed from a preppy status symbol to an empowering exclamation point"

The accessory has morphed from a preppy status symbol to an empowering exclamation point, its purpose less controlling now than crowning.

01/25/2021

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, a Brooklyn native and attendee of Brooklyn College, is pictured here on our beautiful campus and in our library.... with his hand knit mittens, of course!

01/21/2021

"Without unity, there is no peace..." Purple, the color of unity.

We’ve come a long way from that “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” jacket