Amanda Gladu

Amanda Gladu is a New York City-based costume designer, illustrator, and educator working in theater, dance, opera, and film.

She approaches costume design as an empathetic practice in search of understanding the nuanced intentions of her collaborators: characters, text, music, creative team, and space. She was raised in the theater as a dancer and inherently focuses on the vocabulary of movement to tell a story.

Amanda holds teaching as an integral role in her artistic development; in teaching the roots of the process she rediscovers them for herself. She’s currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and has held positions at Ithaca College and Boston University.

Amanda received the 2017 Michael Merritt Academic Award for Collaborative Design for Northwestern University, holds an MFA in Stage Design from Northwestern University, and dual BA degrees in Dance and Art History from the University of Texas at Austin.