Oana Botez

Oana Botez is a Romanian-American costume designer for theater, opera, film, and dance. She is a Henry Hewes Design Award recipient, Princess Grace Award recipient, NEA/TCG Career Development Program grant recipient, Barrymore Award recipient, and Lucille Lortel Award nominee.

New York: BAM Next Wave, Bard SummerScape/Richard B. Fisher Center, Public Theater, Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Baryshnikov Arts Center, David H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center, Big Apple Circus/Lincoln Center, Classic Stage Company, Soho Rep, PS122, The Kitchen.

Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Barrington Stage Company), Macbeth (Old Globe), Angels in America (Wilma), Man in a Case (Hartford).

Opera: The Comet/Poppea (The Industry, LA; Curtis Institute, Philadelphia), Song of the Ambassadors (Alice Tully Hall/Lincoln Center), Carmen (Minnesota Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Portland Opera), In a Grove (Pittsburgh Opera; PROTOTYPE, NY), Persona (National Sawdust, REDCAT), A House in Bali (BAM), Don Giovanni (Wolf Trap Opera), Così fan tutte (Opera Saratoga Summer Festival), Guys and Dolls (Opera Saratoga Summer Festival), Émigré (NY Phil), Dido and Aeneas (Château de Versailles).

International: National Theatre Bucharest (Romania), Théâtre national de Chaillot (Paris, France), Les Subsistances (Lyon, France), The Old Vic (London, England), Hungarian Theatre of Cluj (Romania), Le Quartz (Brest, France), La Filature (Mulhouse, France), Festival Exit/Maison des arts de Créteil (France), Tanz im August festival at Hebbel am Ufer—HAU1 (Berlin, Germany), Edinburgh International Festival (Scotland), Singapore International Festival of Arts.

Oana teaches at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale in the Design Department.

photo credit: Maria Baranova