MELISSA TORCHIA designed costumes for Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Native Son, Jitney, and The Mountaintop at Court Theatre. Other credits include The Crownless King, Rose and the Rime, The Magnificents, and Iron Stag King (The House Theatre of Chicago); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Kansas City Rep and Center Stage Baltimore); Midsummer (Chicago Shakespeare “Short Shakes”); The Verona Project (California Shakespeare Theater); My Fair Lady, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Hair (Paramount Theatre); Grease (American Theatre Project); Gypsy, Aida, and Sugar (Drury Lane Oakbrook); Peter Pan (Lookingglass Theatre); Samuel J and K (Steppenwolf Theatre); Not Wanted on the Voyage (American Musical Theatre Project, Northwestern University); The Importance of Being Earnest (Remy Bumppo Theatre); and Abigail’s Party and Butcher of Baraboo (A Red Orchid Theatre). Ms. Torchia completed her Masters in Costume Design at Northwestern University and in June of 2011 presented her design work at the Prague Quadrennial, an international scenography conference.
Bio as of 4/2016