Melissa Torchia

Melissa Torchia

Costume Designer, The Importance of Being Earnest

In six seasons at OSF: Costume Designer, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, King JohnPeter and the Starcatcher; Associate Designer, The Cymbeline Project; Associate Costume Designer, Love’s Labor’s Lost. Other theatres: Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Peter Pan (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Samuel J. and K. (Steppenwolf); Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Native Son, Mountaintop, Jitney (Court Theatre, Chicago); Little Shop of Horrors (Cleveland Play House); Invisible Hand, Anne Frank, The Fantasticks, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); As You Like It, You Never Can Tell, King Lear, The Verona Project (California Shakespeare Theater); Kitty Hawk (Arsht Performing Arts Center); First Stage Children’s Theatre (Milwaukee), The House Theatre of Chicago, Marin Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, Paramount Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, A Red Orchid Theatre, American Theater Company, Steep Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company. Opera: Silent Night (Opera San Jose). Education: MFA, Northwestern University; BFA, University of Arizona.