We are excited to announce that Christopher Vergara, freelance costume designer, is joining us as our keynote speaker for the 2023 Indiana Thespians State Conference! Read about him below!
CHRISTOPHER VERGARA (Costume Designer) [he/him/él] is a Latinx freelance costume designer whose work spans theatre, musicals, opera, dance, and live events. The son of immigrant parents, Christopher was born and raised in New York City. Recent credits include Anna in the Tropics (Barrington Stage); Windfall (Bay Street Theater), Cendrillon, Junk, Facing Forward, Rise to Freedom, Highway 1 USA, Hair (Univeristy Productions), A Number, Girlfriend, She Talks to Beethoven, The 17th Chapel (Drama League); A Survivor’s Odyssey, a live virtual opera (White Snake), Bodas de Sangre/Blood Wedding (Phoenix Theater); Once(VinWonders, Vietnam); The K of D, the bull-jean stories, Unfuckwithable, Girl’s Bedroom (Drama League); References to Salvador Dali… (Juilliard); Macbeth (Lewis Center for the Arts); Shadows (Connelly) In the Heights (Orlando Shakes); In the Heights (Engeman); Kidnap Road (La Mama); The Golem of Havana (La Mama, Miami New Drama); The Last Word, What Do Critic Know? (NYMTF); Texas in Paris, Last Dance (York); Danza-de-Fernando (somedance company); like the eagle (DASH); Madame Butterfly, Kiss Me Kate, La Traviata, Pirates of Penzance (Brevard Music Festival); Harlequinade, Walpurgisnacht, Majisimas (Ballets Trockadero). Broadway Associate credits include Free Man of Color (Lincoln Center), The Visit (Lyceum), People in the Picture (Roundabout), Eclipsed (Golden), The Color Purple (Jacobs), and Once on this Island (Circle in the Square). He is the Associate for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast’s most recent domestic and international tours. Additional Associate credits include Ben Hur Live (Rome), The Secret Silk (Princess), and West Side Story, the first musical ever produced at the historic Felsenreitschule (Salzburg). As the Costume Coordinator for Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo he toured throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. He is the Designer in Residence and Guest Lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Drama at the University of Michigan: School of Music, Theatre & Dance. He is also an adjunct faculty member at New York Univeristy. He is an alumnus of The Professional Internship Program of The Juilliard School and a proud member of IATSE-USA 829, Wingspace, Design Action, La Gente: The Latinx Theatre Design Network, and the Gotham Knights Rugby. christophervergara.com