Dramaturgical Consultant, Jitney
Constanza Romero is August Wilson’s widow and the Executive Director of the August Wilson Legacy LLC. She has helped to guide and nurture countless productions of Wilson’s ten-play American Century Cycle, both domestically and abroad. In seven seasons at OSF as costume designer: How I Learned What I Learned, The Liquid Plain, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Trip to Bountiful, Topdog/Underdog, Richard II, The Comedy of Errors. Currently Romero is enjoying her collaboration with Tim Bond at OSF acting as the dramaturgical consultant for the Wilson Plays. Romero served as Executive Producer for the recent Netflix film The Piano Lesson, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Paramount’s Fences, and the documentary Giving Voice. Romero is a Tony-nominated costume designer for Wilson’s Fences and Gem of the Ocean. Her other Broadway costume design credits include The Mountain Top, Seven Guitars, and The Piano Lesson. She holds an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama and lives in Seattle close to her and Mr. Wilson’s daughter, Azula Carmen Wilson.