Artist Bio
Sonya Berlovitz designed costumes for over sixty productions at the Tony Award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune between 1980 and 2008. She designs costumes for The Moving Company, collaborating with them on productions at The Guthrie Theatre, Playmakers Repertory Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and the Jungle Theatre. Productions elsewhere have been at Children’s Theatre Company, The Wilma Theatre, The New Victory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Wilma Theatre, and History Theatre. In 2015, her designs were selected for the exhibit Costume Design at the Turn of the Century 1990 - 2015 at the Bakrushin Museum in Moscow, Russia.
As an unconventional artist who consistently pushes boundaries, she has received numerous awards including a The Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Best Costume Design award, Costume Society of America Best Costume Design Award, Minnesota State Arts Board Initiative Grant, McKnight Theatre Artists Fellowship, and participation in World Stage Design in Toronto in 2005. In 2007 and again in 2011, her designs for The Miser and The Deception were chosen for exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial.
Ms. Berlovitz has exhibited her costume renderings and mixed-media artwork, which includes collage, paintings, and textile art, at The Sabes Jewish Community Center (MN), Fairfield University (CT), The Textile Center (MN), USITT Theatre Design Conference (Toronto), and Frank Stone Gallery (MN). In 2023, She had a solo exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, called Red, Artwork and Costume Designs of Sonya Berlovitz.