M. L. Hart costume designer, costume technician, playwright, and mask maker is a graduate of Wayne State University where she received her MFA in Costume Design. During her graduate tenure she focused her studies on draping, costume crafts, printing/dyeing, and historical design. She has been working professionally in theatre since 1993 starting as a member of the wardrobe crew at Idaho Repertory Theatre. In 1995, she was honored to be a part of the Montana Repertory Theatre's national tour of Broadway Bound and Smoke On The Mountain as its wardrobe mistress and most recently she was the costume designer for this company's 50th anniversary national tour of Barefoot in the Park. After her education she moved around the United States working as a costumer with various companies including Soho HERE Arts Center as an assistant costume designer to her friend and mentor, Elizabeth Bourgeois, on the premiere work, Orpheus, A Rock Opera. Ms. Hart is an active member of the United States Institute of Theatre Technology as well as a participating member of the Northwest Professionals Conference Weekend hosted by the University of Montana. Some of her favorite designs include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat for the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, Urinetown for Western Summer Theatre, and Suburbia for the University of Michigan-Flint.
