Karvonides-Dushenko, Chrisi

Chrisi Karvonides-Dushenko has more than 25 years of experience as a professional costume designer in theater, film and television. In 2003, she received an Emmy for her costume design work on NBC’s American Dreams. She was also Emmy-nominated for FX’s American Horror Story, and HBO’s Carnivàle and From the Earth to the Moon. She was nominated for four Costume Designers Guild Awards during five seasons of HBO’s Big Love. In addition, Carnivàle, From the Earth to the Moon and the pilot for ABC’s Pan Am were also nominated for CDG awards. Her other TV credits include Alan Ball’s HBO series Here and Now, starring Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter; and the Starz TV series Blunt Talk, starring Patrick Stewart. Karvonides-Dushenko’s feature films include The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008), The Glass House (2001) and Beautiful (2000).

Her theatrical designs have been featured in productions at the Old Globe Theater, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Repertory, Guthrie Theater and the Kennedy Center. Karvonides-Dushenko’s designs for opera include Alcina in Karlsruhe, Germany; Proving Up for Opera Omaha; The Human Voice and Breaking the Waves for Opera Philadelphia; and Iphigenia in Tauris for Teatro National San Carlo in Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2011 she joined UCLA’s school of theater film and Television to run the costume design program along with her colleagues Deborah Landis and Myung Hee Cho. In addition to teaching full time both the undergraduate and graduate costume designers at UCLA, She has given guest lectures on the art of costume design in Prague, Czech Republic; Leche, Italy; Cardiff, Wales; and New York City. Karvonides-Dushenko received her M.F.A. in theater design from Yale School of Drama and her B.F.A. from Emerson College.

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Set and Costume Designs for From Page To Stage: The Lord of Cries