Sonya Berlovitz designed costumes for over sixty productions at the Tony Award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune between 1980 and 2008, including Carmen, The Miser, Hamlet, Cosi Fan Tutti, The Magic Flute, Tartuffe, Medea, Circus of Tales and The Three Musketeers. Currently, she is the resident Costume Designer for The Moving Company, collaborating with them on productions at The Guthrie Theatre, Playmakers Repertory Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Productions elsewhere have been at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Skylight Theatre (Milwaukee), The Children’s Theatre Company, The Wilma Theatre (Philadelphia), The New Victory Theatre NYC, American Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and in Minneapolis, the History Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Interact Center for the Performing Arts, Ten Thousand Things, Minnesota Dance Theatre and most recently Wonderlust Productions. In 2015 her designs were selected for the exhibit Costume Design at the Turn of the Century 1990 - 2015 at the Bakrushin Museum in Moscow, Russia.

As an unconventional artist who consistently pushes boundaries, she has received numerous awards including a The Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Best Costume Design award, Costume Society of America Best Costume Design Award, Minnesota State Arts Board Initiative Grant, McKnight Theatre Artists Fellowship, and participation in World Stage Design in Toronto in 2005. In 2007 and again in 2011, her designs for The Miser and The Deception were chosen for exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial.

Ms. Berlovitz has exhibited her costume renderings and mixed-media artwork, which includes collage, paintings, and textile art, at The Sabes Jewish Community Center (MN), Fairfield University (CT), The Textile Center (MN), USITT Theatre Design Conference (Toronto), and Frank Stone Gallery (MN). In 2023, she had a solo exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, called Red, Artwork and Costume Designs of Sonya Berlovitz.

Ms. Berlovitz is a graduate of both La Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (fashion design, painting). She apprenticed with John Conklin, a set designer for opera. Following her studies, she worked in Tokyo, Japan as a textile specialist for internationally acclaimed fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto.