sonya berlovitz
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contact name: sonya berlovitz
phone: 612-296-2937
email: sberlovitz@gmail.com
Related Organizations:
Theatre de la Jeune Lune
Costume Society of America
United Scenic Arts
The Moving Company
Arena Dances
Experience
Ms. Berlovitz designed costumes for Theatre de la Jeune Lune
between 1980-2008. She designed over 50 of their productions including Don
Juan Giovanni, Figaro, The Miser, Carmen,
Hamlet, Cosi Fan Tutti, The Magic Flute, Tartuffe, Medea, Circus of Tales and The Three Musketeers. She has also designed several productions at
Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Green Bird), Childrens Theatre Company (The Snow Queen, Alice in Wonderland, Mississippi Panorama,
Grimms Tales), The Guthrie Theatre (Triumph
of Love), American Repertory Theatre (Amerika,
The Miser), La Jolla Playhouse (The
Deception) and Actors Theatre of Louisville (Shipwrecked, Fissures, Sirens). Other design credits include Stuart
Pimsler Dance Theater, The Jungle Theater, Ten Thousand Things Theatre Company
and Minnesota Dance Theater. She
is a graduate of both La Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She worked as a textile designer for
Yohji Yamamoto in Tokyo, Japan and also has been the recipient of many grants
and awards including The Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Best Costume Design
award (The Green Bird), McKnight
Theatre Artists Fellowship and participation in the juried exhibition World
Stage Design in Toronto in 2005. In 2007 her designs for The Miser were
selected for exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial. Teaching credits and speaking engagements include The University of Minnesota, Fairfield University, CT,
Minneapolis Community and Technical College, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Minneapolis
College of Art and Design, Sabes Jewish Community Center, and BIMA (Brandeis
University).
Awards
Best Costume Design - Minneapolis StarTribune
Best Costume Design - City Pages
Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design
McKnight Theatre Artists Fellowship
Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship
Jerome Travel and Study Grant
Ungaro Fashion Award for outstanding design
Exhibitions/Performance History
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2012 Art in the Everyday
Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
30 year retrospective including costume designs by Sonya Berlovitz
2010 Sonya Berlovitz
Paintings & Drawings, 1993-2010
Fairfield University, Lukas Gallery, Fairfield, CT
2008The Art of Sonya Berlovitz
Solo
exhibition
Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union
2007 “Design USA”,
group show
Invitational exhibition, Prague Quadrennial
Czech Republic
2007 “The Structure
of Theatre”, group show
Frank Stone Gallery/Minneapolis
Curator and Artist
2006 “Coming Apart at
the Seams”, a 20 year retrospective
Tychman-Shapiro
Gallery/Sabes JCC Minneapolis
SoloExhibition
2005 “World Stage
Design”, juried exhibit
World Stage Design Expo/Toronto
2005 “The Artists of
Theatre Inside and Out”
Frank Stone Gallery/Minneapolis
Group show
Curator and Artist
2003 “The Art of
Theatre”
Frank Stone Gallery/Minneapolis
Curator and Artist
2001 “Fasshon Sho”
Theatre
de la Jeune Lune lobby
21 original fashion designs for men and women
1994 “Design of
Triumph”
Bob Thompson Gallery/Minneapolis
Collections
Sabes Jewish Community Center
Marshall and Shirley Besikoff
Fairfield University Theatre Department
David Tychman
Galleries
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Tychman-Shapiro Gallery/Sabes Jewish Community Center
Frank Stone Gallery
Bob Thompson Gallery
5th on 5th Street Gallery
Owatonna Center for the Arts
Hopkins Centr for the Arts
Heidis Restaurant
Lukas Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield CT
Publications
American Theatre Magazine
Boston Globe
New York Times
Star and Tribune
St.Paul Pioneer Press
City Pages
VitaMN
Chicago Tribune
San Francisco Chronicle
San Jose Mercury News
Green Bay Press Gazette
Opera Magazine
American Jewish World
Biographical Information
Country of Citizenship:
United States
Birth Place:
Minneapolis
Birth Date:
December 17, 1956
Gender:
Female
Active Place:
Minneapolis/St. Paul
Minnesota County:
Hennepin
Artist Information
Roles
Costume Designer