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| Bonnie Kruger is a Senior Lecturer and Costume Director for the Performing Arts Dept. She holds an MFA from the University of Illinois and has designed costumes for over 150 productions in theatre, opera and dance for companies throughout the United States and Europe. Her numerous designs for Washington University include: Much Ado About Nothing, Me, Vasha, Hannah´s Shawl, Machinal, The Dybbuk, Romeo and Juliet, Buried Child, Gray´s Anatomy, A Midsummer Night´s Dream, Othello, The Tempest, and Equus with Henry Schvey, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Anna Pileggi, Guys and Dolls, Hair, Pirates of Penzance, Marat/Sade, The Illusion, Beggar's Opera, and A Flea in Her Ear with Jeffery Matthews, hickorydickory, The Underpants, Good Person of Szechuan, The Imaginary Invalid and La Ronde with Bill Whitaker, civil disobedience, Cloud Nine, Alice in Bed and Darker Face of the Earth with Andrea Urice. Her principle research interest is in the reconstruction of Baroque opera and she has worked with Boston Early Music Festival, PepsiCo Summerfare in NY, the E. Nakamichi Baroque Festival in Los Angeles, the Marseilles Opera, France, NY Baroque Dance Co. and has designed costumes off and on for the past 17 years for the Goettingen Handel Festival in Germany where she will be designing Orlando this spring. Her most recent favorite thing to do, is film. She was the assistant to Jane Anderson on the Game of Their Lives (aka The Miracle Match on DVD), based on the lives of a local St. Louis soccer team, which allowed her to spend 6 glorious weeks in Rio de Janeiro, and then, last summer she dyed 4,000 yards of fabric in the desert with the rattlesnakes, costuming a biblical film: Magdalena: Released from Shame which opened in October. In addition to teaching costume design and construction, millinery, makeup, period style and design history at Washington University, she has collaborated with Liz Claire on a Design and Dance program called MADE in France that has its inaugural year in the summer of 2008. |
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