Elizabeth Poindexter
Costume Designer

Costume designer Elizabeth Poindexter returns to OSJ during the 2006 - 2007 season to design costumes for La traviata. Her past costume design projects for the company include The Crucible, Tosca, Falstaff, Cenerentola, Faust, Eugene Oñegin,  Les Pêcheurs de perles, L'elisir d'amore, Gianni Schicci, Suour Angelica, Tartuffe, Vanessa, Hotel Eden, and West of Washington Square.   Other costume design credits include work for American Musical Theatre of San Jose, California Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Western Stage Company (Salinas, CA), The Alley Theatre (Houston, TX) and The José Limon Dance Company (New York, NY). 

For the past 26 years Ms. Poindexter has been a member of the design faculty of the Televison, Radio , Film and Theatre Department of San José State University. Her university design credits number over 150 productions including dance (modern and jazz), video and film, musical theatre, opera, as well as classic theatre repertory.  She is an active member of the Costume Commission of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology and a founding member of the Bay Area Costumers' Alliance.