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Kyla Kazuschyk

Associate Professor of Costume Technology

 

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Biography

Associate Professor of Costume Technology at Louisiana State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, Kyla holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from the ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Central Florida and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Costume Technology from Ohio ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø. She has created costumes for the Santa Fe Opera, the Washington National Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and the Texas Shakespeare Festival. She currently teaches and manages the costume shop at Louisiana State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø. Professional costume design credits include Operating Systems, Airline Highway, and The Mountaintop, at Louisiana’s Swine Palace Theatre; Kimberly Akimbo, Tender Atlas, and Witch at McNeese State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, and the world premiere of The Christmas Spider at Opera Louisiane. Kyla enjoys creating costumes for competitive dance troupes and uniforms for the dance teams of professional basketball teams the Orlando Magic and the Detroit Pistons. Passionate about the possibilities of devised theatre, she designed and created costumes for Savage/Love, a work of physical theatre performed at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, and Love and Information, a semi-devised piece performed at Louisiana State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø. Her research on the rewarding chaos of devising was first published in the 2017 Theatre Symposium and is now available through Routledge Press in her book, .