About : 

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Austin Blake Conlee is a Freelance Costume Designer based in New York City. He is also the Professor of Costume Design at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

 

As a Queer artist, Austin enjoys designing innovative works created by or featuring underrepresented groups as well as revamping conventional classics to make them fresh, new, and exciting. Skilled in the art of digital rendering, he uses innovative programs like Procreate and Photoshop to create fresh & unique costume designs. Select costume renderings of Austin's have been featured in the textbook "Digital Painting and Rendering for Theatrical Design" by Jen Gillette.
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Austin has worked at a variety of theatrical venues in various capacities such as Costume Designer, Associate Costume Designer, Wig Designer, Wig Master, Fabric Shopper, and Artistic Collaborator. These credits include The Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Signature Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Northern Stage, Opera Columbus, Cumberland County Playhouse, Arena Stage, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Sierra Repertory Theatre, Ohio Light Opera, Studio Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Company XIV, Imagination Stage, Constellation Stage, Urban Arias, Ford's Theatre, Maryland Opera Studio,  Lexington Opera House, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Playhouse on the Square, Opera Memphis, Porthouse Theatre, Hattiloo Theatre,  and Tennessee Shakespeare Company..

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Austin graduated with his MFA  in Costume Design from the University of Maryland mentored by Costume Designer Helen Q. Huang. He was also trained in Period Wig Styling for TV & Film the Wig Room Training Academy of London. In 2023, he received a Broadway World Award for his Costume Design of "Cinderella".

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Email : austinblakeconlee@gmail.com

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