Alumna Taśa Gleason (MFA, dramatic arts, ‘20) returns to UC Davis as costume designer for the winter quarter Department of Theatre and Dance production of The Drowsy Chaperone.

As a graduate student at UC Davis, Gleason designed costumes for Flora The Red Menace and The Threepenny Opera.

Gleason has been designing and creating costumes for dance and theatre for many years. Her work has been seen in Seattle, the greater Bay Area, New York and has toured internationally. Having a background in performance and choreography offers Taśa an understanding of what is unique about costuming for dance and theater, it also means that she shares a vocabulary in regards to movement that is indispensable to her when collaborating with directors, choreographers and performers. Taśa has a background in draping and construction. In addition to her M.F.A. from UC Davis, she earned a BFA in Dance Performance from Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA.