Oana Botez is a Romanian American costume designer working in theater, opera, film, and dance. She is a recipient of the Lucille Lortel, Obie, Henry Hewes, Princess Grace, and Barrymore Awards, and the NEA/TCG Career Development Program. Nominated for Helen Hayes Award, The Theatre Bay Area Awards

Her designs have raised critical acclaim in New York’s: BAM Next Wave, The Public Theater, Signature Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater, Bard SummerScape/Richard B.Fisher Center, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The David H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center, The Glimmerglass Festival, Soho Rep, LCT3, 59East59, La MaMa, The Kitchen, PS122, HERE Arts Center, The Joyce Theater, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, BRIC Arts Media, Big Apple Circus/Lincoln Center and The Classic Stage Company.

Regionally: Minnesota Opera (MN), Portland Opera (OR), Detroit Opera (MI), The Wilma Theater (Philadelphia, PA), Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (MA), Hartford Stage Company (CT), Long Wharf Theater (New Haven, CT), CalShakes (San Francisco), Humana Theater Festival (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Shakespeare Theater (DC), Berkeley Rep (Berkely, CA), ArtsEmerson (Boston, MA), Broad Stage (Santa Monica, CA), MCA (Chicago, IL), Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C), ODC (San Francisco), The Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN), Peak Performances (Montclair, NJ), ADI (Rockville,MD), Academy of Music (Philadelphia, PA), Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia, PA), Cutler Majestic Theater (Boston,MA).

Internationally: Bucharest National Theater (Romania), Arad National Theater (Romania), Bulandra Theater (Bucharest), Château de Versailles, Théâtre National de Chaillot (Paris), Les Subsistances (Lyon,France), The Old Vic ( London), Budapest National Theater, Cluj Hungarian National Theater (Romania), Bucharest Operetta Theater (Romania), International Festival of Contemporary Theater (Adana, Turkey), Le Quartz (Brest, France), La Filature (Mulhousse, France), Exit Festival /Maison des Arts Creteil (Paris, France),Tanz im August Festival Hebbel am Ufer – HAU1(Berlin, Germany), Centro Cultural Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru), Centro Cultural (Lima, Peru), Palazzo Simoncelli (Orvieto, Italy), Edinburgh International Festival (UK), Singapore Arts Festival.

Her collaborators in theater, opera, film and dance include: Robert Woodruff, Les Waters, Richard Foreman, Richard Schechner, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Janos Szasz, Yuval Sharon, Saheem Ali, Dustin Wills, Will Davis, Andrei Serban, Blanka Zizka, Susan Marshall, Daniel Ezralow, Todd Eckert & Marina Abramović, Denyce Graves, Mary Birnbaum, Jeffrey Page, Daniel Kramer, Jay Scheib, Brian Kulick, Zelda Fichlander, Annie-B Parson &Paul Lazar, Doug Elkins, Ken Rus Schmoll, Michael Sexton, Daniel Alexander Jones, Lee Sunday Evans, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, Lileana Blain - Cruz, Awoye Tiempo, Tea Alegic, Jenna Worsham, Maya Beiser, Geoff Sobelle, Kristin Linklater, Zishan Ugurlu, Rebecca Taichman, Eric Ting, Alec Duffy, Razvan Dinca, Karin Coonrod, Kristin Marting, Evan Ziporyn, Eduardo Machado, Gus Solomon Jr.&Paradigm, Carmen DeLavallade, Eric Sean Fogel, Jackson Gay, David Levine, Dusan Tynek, Rania Ajami, Gisela Cardenas, Pavol Liska & Kelly Copper, Igor Golyak, Matthew Neenan, Molissa Fenley, Parallel Exit, Pig Iron Company, Play Company, Charles Moulton, Ripe Time, among others.

Ms. Botez is a graduate of Bucharest Art Academy (Romania) and received an MFA in Design from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, and holds a PhD from UNATC ( Bucharest, Romania). Ms. Botez was a major contributor for the first Romanian theater design catalogue, called Scenografica. She taught costume design at Colgate College, Brooklyn College and MIT. Ms. Botez is currently an Associate Professor Adjunct in the Design Department at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She resides in Manhattan, New York.