A graduate of the universities of New York and California, she is Associate Professor and Head of Costume Design at New York University, and was the recipient of the Outer Critics Circle Award in 2000.
Opera credits include Grendel, Der Fliegender Holländer, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (Los Angeles); Giulio Cesare (Virginia, Florida); Lucia di Lammermoor (Minnesota); Rigoletto (San Francisco); Salsipuedes, Carmen (Houston); Orphée, L’Etoile, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La fanciulla del West, Acis and Galatea (Glimmerglass/NYCO); The Cunning Little Vixen (Portland); The Merchant and the Pauper (Saint Louis); La traviata (Tel Aviv); Salome (Lithuanian Opera); The Queen of Spades (Bayerische Staatoper); Tannhäuser (Opéra National de Paris, Tokyo Opera Nomori).
Theatre credits include The Green Bird (Broadway); Mr Marmalade (Roundabout Theatre Company); Tiny Alice (Second Stage); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, Center Stage, Baltimore).