Dede M. Ayite

Dede Ayite

Costume Designer, How to Catch Creation

In three seasons at OSF: Othello; UniSon; Henry IV, Parts One and Two; The Wiz.

Broadway: American Son, Children of A Lesser God. Off-Broadway: By The Way Meet Vera Stark, JHTAT (Signature Theatre); Slave Play (NYTW); FireFlies, Marie and Rosetta, Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic Theater Company); Collective Rage…, School Girls… (MCC Theater); Sugar in Our Wounds (Manhattan Theatre Club); Mankind, Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons); The Royale (Lincoln Center); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company); brownsville song [b-side for tray] (LCT3). Regional: Macbeth (DCPA); Black Odyssey, A Raisin in the Sun (California Shakespeare Theater); Pass Over, Marie Antoinette (Steppenwolf); Jelly’s Last Jam (Signature Theatre); The Last Tiger in Haiti (La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep); Detroit ’67 (Baltimore Center Stage); Smart People, The Blood Quilt (Arena Stage); Five Guys Named Moe (Arena Stage, Cleveland Play House).

TV: Comedy Central, Fox Shortcoms (FOX Network), COPPER Project (Improv Everywhere/BBC America).

Awards: Recipient: Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, Jeff Awards; nominations: Henry Hewes, Drama Desk.

Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama.