Theatre Department

Faculty & Staff

Caitlin Cisek

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Costume and Production Design, costume technology and craft 
BA Theater SUNY Albany 2008
MFA Costume Design UC Irvine 2011
cisekc@reed.edu
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Caitlin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatrical Design and for the past decade has been working as freelance costume designer and stylist. She has designed nationally with Burning Coal, The Boston Opera Collaborative, Westport County Playhouse, Davis Shakespeare Ensemble, and the The Shakespeare Theater of Maine. As an educator she has worked with Hunter College, Kingsboro Community College, Borough of Manhattan Community College and designed for Case Western Reserve, Mt Holyoke College, Princeton University and The New School. She has additionally held technical positions with Glimmerglass Opera, Papermill Playhouse as well as collaborating on the LED Costumes for Broadway's Honeymoon In Vegas and Cirque de Soleil's Toruk.  She as collaborated on commercial projects for Adidas, G-Shock Watches, Netflix, Oral B, and Kiehls.  Ms. Cisek is a collaborative visual artist, and is the resident costume designer with The Other Mirror, where she collaborated closely in the immersive editorial project "Mirror Alchemy". She was recently featured on Jezebel's "Clothes Whores" and is currently working on a fashion based editorial project on immigration in New York City.  Ms. Cisek has her MFA from UC Irvine in California and is a proud member of United Scenic Artist 829.