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Costume Designer, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Susan Tsu is an award-winning costume designer, exhibition curator, and teacher in the USA, China, India and Russia. Her creations have graced the stages of over 45 regional theatres in the US. Awards include the USITT Distinguished Achievement Award, Carol Brown Creative Achievement, Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement, NY Drama Desk, NY Drama Critics, NY Young Film Critics, LA Distinguished Designer Awards and KCTF-Kennedy Center Medal of Achievement. Her designs and writing may be seen in over a dozen costume books and publications world-wide. OSF: Baltimore Waltz, Tempest, Cure at Troy, Seven Guitars, Two Sisters and a Piano, Titus Andronicus, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare in Love, The Book of Will, Hairspray. Recent designs: Young Americans -Portland Center Stage and Pittsburgh Public, The Hobbit- Pittsburgh Public, Merry Wives of Windsor -American Player’s Theatre, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Mousetrap- Guthrie Theatre, Warhol in Iran- City Theatre, and Hamlet- Quantum Theatre at Carrie Blast Furnace. Curation: USITT/USA/Prague Quadrennial 2007, 2011, 2023; Chief Curator of Innovative Costume of the 21st Century: The Next Generation and Co-Curator for Costume at the Turn of the Century: 1990-2015. http://www.worldcostumedesign.com/. Tsu is Carnegie Mellon University Bessie F. Anathan Professor of Fine Arts, holding the honored position of University Professor. She heads the Costume Design program- cited by the Hollywood Reporter as one of the Top Ten Costume Programs in the USA and the world.