Maggie
Morgan
Design: Costume
Maggie Morgan (Costume Design: Stage and Film, M.F.A. Adviser, M.F.A. Design Adviser) is an award-winning, professional costume designer for theatre and film. She joined the UC Davis Theatre and Dance Department faculty in 2003. During the 2002-2003 academic year, as a visiting professor, she designed the costumes for the spring 2003 production of Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore in the Mondavi Center. A UC Davis alumna, her career began here in the Department of Theatre and Dance in the 1980s. Since graduation she has worked continuously all over the country in regional theatre, opera, ballet, on and off Broadway and on feature films in New York and Los Angeles. She was the visiting assistant professor of design here in the spring of 2001, and designed the costumes for Marlowe's The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus directed by William Gaskill. Other UC Davis designs include Urinetown: The Musical and The Laramie Project.
Professor Morgan's recent regional theatre design work includes Enchanted April at Arizona Theatre Company the world premiere productions of Mask: A New Musical and Matter of Honor at the Pasadena Playhouse, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, a co-production of Deaf West Theatre and Center Theatre Group at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, the West coast premiere of Defiance by John Patrick Shanley, Bach at Leipzig at South Coast Rep (LA Drama Critics Nomination for Best Costume) and the national tour of LA Theatre Works’ production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial starring Eric Stoltz and UCD alum John Vickery.
Other notable shows include Sunset Boulevard at the Hollywood Bowl with Betty Buckley and Seneca’s Phaedra at the Getty Villa with Antaeus Company. Northern California design work includes the world premiere production of The Haunting of Winchester at San Jose Rep, The Clean House at TheatreWorks, Tea and Dirty Blonde at Sacramento Theatre Company, and A Reckoning at the Magic Theatre. Her award winning work includes The Birthday Party (L.A. Weekly Award-best revival), Waiting for Godot (Ovation Nomination) at the Matrix Theatre, Demonology and The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite (Drama-Logue Award) at the Mark Taper Forum. She has designed shows in New York at SOHO Rep, HB Playwrights, and NADA and also at New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre.
Film designs include the independent features Sex and a Girl and Breathing Hard. She has worked as an assistant costume designer on many feature films including: A Bronx Tale, Apollo 13, Casino, Wag the Dog, Men in Black, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Murder by Numbers and Mona Lisa Smile. She is a member of United Scenic Artists, local 829 and the Costume Designers Guild, local 892. She holds an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama and has also taught costume design at FIDM in Los Angeles and Columbia College of Chicago "Semester In L.A."
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