Lena Sands is an award-winning practitioner and teacher of costume design recognized for her innovative theatrical work. Sands’ past collaborations with director Alexander Gedeon include Everything Rises, a New York Times Critics’ Pick (Royce Hall, BAM), Sucktion by Anne LeBaron, and the operetta of Dostoevsky’s The Double (Boston Court, Pasadena). Designs for new opera also include Four Larks’ Frankenstein (The Wallis, Beverly Hills) and visual album Homeric Hymns (Getty Villa), Minute to Midnight by Dante De Silva, and Sally Ride by Dana Kaufman (Synchromy, LA). Other notable costume designs include Center Theatre Group’s American Idiot revival (Mark Taper Forum, LA), SITI Company’s Bacchae (BAM, Guthrie, Getty Villa), Pat Benatar’s Invincible: The Musical (The Wallis), and the new musical Menstruation: A Period Piece (LA LGBT Center). She designs for LA’s Critical Mass Performance Group, including Mariology (Boston Court, Mixed Blood, MN), Ameryka (Kirk Douglas, LA), Untitled Communion (REDCAT, LA), and After Iphigenia (Getty Villa). Sands’ work has been featured in Vogue magazine, as worn by Jinkx Monsoon. Her work was also displayed in the exhibition Innovative Costume of the 21st Century: The Next Generation. BFA UofM (Go Blue!), MFA CalArts. www.lenasands.com