Bio
exhibitions.psu.edu/s/fashion-archiveCHARLENE ALEXIS GROSS is an Associate Professor of Costume Design at Penn State's School of Theatre and was Resident Costume Designer & Production Manger for Ohio Light Opera (OLO) for over a decade. Prior to PSU she was the Resident Costume Designer/ Costume Shop Manager at the College of Wooster. She serves the Director of the Fashion Archive @ Penn State School of Theatre & Chair of University Senate Faculty Affairs.
Cleveland area costume designs include Endgame with Massoud Saidpour for Cleveland Museum of Art's Viva! & Gala, Inherit the Wind with Seth Gordon at Cleveland Playhouse, Sangreal with Shirley Huston-Findley at Ingenuity Festival & both of Diane McIntrye's original pieces for GroundWorks: Witness & Just Yesterday.
Charlene's more than 60 designs with OLO include Candide, The Lady of the Slipper, Call Me Madame, Madame Pompadour, Pride and Prejudice, Of Thee I Sing, The Cabaret Girl, Marinka, The Mikado, & A Friend of Napoleon. Among these titles are many American Premiers & International Recording Releases.
Off Broadway & regional designs include productions at Florida Repertory Theatre, Merrimack Rep Theatre, the Flea, Rattelstick Theatre, Perry Street Theatre, NYC Fringe Festival, Joe’s Pub, Joyce SoHo, Symphony Space, & Kunnigham Studios.
Dance designs have been seen at the Yard (Martha’s Vineyard), Cleveland Museum of Art, Gibney Studios NYC, West Wave Dance Festival, NBC Nightly News, & The Gamesters’ Manhattan Magic at the Sands Casino, Atlantic City with choreographers such as David Shimotakahara, Diane McIntrye, Doug Elkins, & Kim Tritt.
Notable Broadway and London West End associate/ assistant costume design credits include the Pulitzer Prize-winning TopDog / UnderDog (Emilio Sosa, Costume Designer) & A Class Act (Carrie Robbins, Costume Designer). In addition she has worked Off-Broadway and nationally at Seattle Repertory, Guthrie, NY Public Theater, Florida Stage, New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, & the Classic Stage Company.
Educational design credits include work at Penn State, Berkeley Carroll School, the Juilliard School, Columbia University, NYU, Ashland University, Baldwin Wallace University, University Memphis Opera, Skidmore College & The College of Wooster.
She is a proud graduate of NYU's MFA program in Design for Stage & Film and member of USA Local 829.
Cleveland area costume designs include Endgame with Massoud Saidpour for Cleveland Museum of Art's Viva! & Gala, Inherit the Wind with Seth Gordon at Cleveland Playhouse, Sangreal with Shirley Huston-Findley at Ingenuity Festival & both of Diane McIntrye's original pieces for GroundWorks: Witness & Just Yesterday.
Charlene's more than 60 designs with OLO include Candide, The Lady of the Slipper, Call Me Madame, Madame Pompadour, Pride and Prejudice, Of Thee I Sing, The Cabaret Girl, Marinka, The Mikado, & A Friend of Napoleon. Among these titles are many American Premiers & International Recording Releases.
Off Broadway & regional designs include productions at Florida Repertory Theatre, Merrimack Rep Theatre, the Flea, Rattelstick Theatre, Perry Street Theatre, NYC Fringe Festival, Joe’s Pub, Joyce SoHo, Symphony Space, & Kunnigham Studios.
Dance designs have been seen at the Yard (Martha’s Vineyard), Cleveland Museum of Art, Gibney Studios NYC, West Wave Dance Festival, NBC Nightly News, & The Gamesters’ Manhattan Magic at the Sands Casino, Atlantic City with choreographers such as David Shimotakahara, Diane McIntrye, Doug Elkins, & Kim Tritt.
Notable Broadway and London West End associate/ assistant costume design credits include the Pulitzer Prize-winning TopDog / UnderDog (Emilio Sosa, Costume Designer) & A Class Act (Carrie Robbins, Costume Designer). In addition she has worked Off-Broadway and nationally at Seattle Repertory, Guthrie, NY Public Theater, Florida Stage, New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, & the Classic Stage Company.
Educational design credits include work at Penn State, Berkeley Carroll School, the Juilliard School, Columbia University, NYU, Ashland University, Baldwin Wallace University, University Memphis Opera, Skidmore College & The College of Wooster.
She is a proud graduate of NYU's MFA program in Design for Stage & Film and member of USA Local 829.
Recent ProductionsRECENT PRODUCTIONS:
HMS Pinafore, Gamut Theatre Ben Krumreig, Director Runs: 11/18-12/3 @ Gamut Theatre, 15 N. 4th St., Harrisburg, PA After Jane, Skidmore College Teisha Duncan, Director April, 2023 PressAnd Then There Were None, Florida Rep Theatre,
REVIEW HERE Outside Mullingar Review, Broadway World Latins in La-La Land Review, HowlRound Can-Can Review, Cool Cleveland “It is plenty enough for a live performance to be entertaining. But when it goes beyond that, when it enthralls the audience, inspires it, touches it — well, that takes the experience to a whole other level...And Charlene Gross’s costumes? Perfect. You’d expect nothing less.” -The Daily Record review of Candide "Each part of the show drew you in and made you feel as if you were peeking into Angus's home to watch real people reacting to the events of their lives rather than fictional characters, and the entire creative team did an excellent job in bringing it to life." -BroadwayWorld review of Morning After Grace "Sets and costumes for The Mikado are both the work of veteran Charlene Gross, who always sets the bar high and, in this case, outdoes herself with a set that works on multiple levels and an array of beautiful costumes, from Yum-Yum's golden wedding kimono to the pastels of the women's robes to the outlandish blacks and reds assigned to Devlin's Katisha..." -Daily Record Review of The Mikado, 2016 Mikado Review, 2016 "The 2016 OLO Mikado is quite likely the most beautiful I have ever seen. Charlene Gross’s sets appear as simple and spare in Japanese style as the costumes are lavishly colored and draped." The Boston Musical Intelligencer Review, The Mikado, 2016 |
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