Elizabeth Wislar
Elizabeth Wislar is a multi award-winning costume professional, a large scale textile and integrated technology artist, a wage equity warrior, an instructor, and a registered member of the Northern Cherokee Nation.
Elizabeth spent close to 20 years as a freelance theatre artisan based in Chicago, IL. She has designed over 200 shows and built more than 150 productions in the Chicago area and nationally, in collaboration with many of the prevailing theaters, opera companies, and local universities. Elizabeth graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and earned an MFA in Costume Design and Technology from Pennsylvania State University. She spent 5 years (1996-1999, 2002) as the Assistant Designer/Head Draper for the annual Baroque Handel Opera Festival in Göttingen, Germany. Elizabeth is the 2004 recipient of the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award, as well as multiple other awards and nominations. In 2011, she founded Chicago Custom Costumes, a private build shop located in the historic Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. In 2015, Elizabeth sold her business and joined Lycoming College in the rolling mountains of rural Pennsylvania. In 2020, she moved to James Madison University in Virginia. Her new mission in life is to participate in the development of new artistic collaborators and technicians, training them for the multitude of diverse opportunities.
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