Susan Tsu

Susan Tsu

(she/her/hers)

Costume Designer, Hairspray

In 12 seasons at OSF: The Book of Will, Shakespeare in Love, Twelfth Night, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Baltimore Waltz, The Tempest, The Cure at Troy, Seven Guitars, Two Sisters and a Piano, Titus Andronicus, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet.

Broadway: Godspell, Elizabeth I. Off-Broadway: Roller Derby, Music Keeper, Fighting Bob, Alfred Dies. Regional: More than 30 major companies. 

International: The Joy Luck Club, The Balcony-Bolshoi Opera

Opera: Aida, Cosi Fan Tutte, The Winter’s Tale. 

Curation: Prague Quadrennial, Costume Design at the Turn of the Century: 1990-2015, and Innovative Costume of the 21st Century: The Next Generation (Bakhrushin Museum, Moscow). 

Exhibitions: Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women (Lincoln Center); From Shakespeare to Sondheim (McNay Art Museum). 

Other: Board of Directors, Theatre Communications Group; NEA committees; Who’s Who citations; designs in many books. 

Awards: Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement—Established Artist, Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement, New York Drama Desk, Drama Critics, Young Film Critics, Los Angeles Distinguished Designer, Kennedy Center, B. Iden Payne, Austin Critics Table, USITT Fellow. 

Teaching: Boston University; University of Texas, Austin; Carnegie Mellon. 

Education: BFA, MFA Carnegie Mellon.