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Senior Artist-in-Residence in Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences
Expertise: costume design, Baroque opera, opera costumes, costumes, opera
Bio:
Kruger has designed costumes for more than 100 productions in theatre, opera and dance for companies throughout the United States and Europe.
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Education:
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M.F.A. at University of Illinois
Additional Background: Kruger's principle research interest is the reconstruction of Baroque opera and she has collaborated with Nicholas McGegan and Drew Minter for the Boston Early Music Festival, PepsiCo Summerfare in New York, the E. Nakamichi Baroque Festival in Los Angeles and the Marseilles Opera, France, among others. For the past 10 years, she has been the costume designer for the Goettingen Handel Festival. Other opera designs include: Stanford University's Dido and Aeneus, Agrippina for the Mannes School, New York, and collaborations with Catherine Turocy for the New York Baroque Dance Company.
At Washington University, she has designed costumes for Hannahs Shawl, Machinal, The Dybbuk, Romeo and Juliet, Buried Child, Grays Anatomy, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Othello, The Tempest, and Equus with Henry Schvey; Pirates of Penzance, Marat/Sade, The Illusion, Beggar's Opera, and A Flea in Her Ear with Jeffery Matthews; The Imaginary Invalid and La Ronde with William Whitaker; and Alice in Bed and Darker Face of the Earth with Andrea Urice.
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