Sonya Berlovitz designed costumes for over sixty productions at the Tony Award winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune 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 designs costumes 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 as well as numerous productions in Minneapolis including Say All the Truth recently seen at the Jungle Theatre. Productions elsewhere have been at Children’s Theatre Company, The Wilma Theatre, The New Victory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Wilma Theatre, History Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Interact Center for the Performing Arts, Ten Thousand Things, and Minnesota Dance Theatre. 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.
She has received a The Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Best Costume Design award, Costume Society of America 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 participated in many exhibitions of her costume renderings, and artwork including 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 Ms Berlovitz had a solo exhibition in Tokyo, Japan called Red, Artwork and Costume Designs.
Ms. Berlovitz is a graduate of both La Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago during which time she apprenticed with John Conklin, set designer for opera. Following her studies, she lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan as a textile specialist for internationally acclaimed fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto.
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