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Ms. Custer is the head of the MFA design program and resident designer for the Clarence Brown Theatre for more than 25 years. Her design credits include Broadway, regional theatre, the Municipal Theatre of Istanbul, and the National Theatres of Germany and Hungary. Since 1982, her students have won 35 major awards in recognition of their design excellence. Her former students are working in regional theatres and operas in New York and at universities across the country. Since 1997 Professor Custer has received numerous grants and traveled extensively researching costume designers in Central and Eastern Europe. She is working on a book that profiles Central and Eastern Europe's most important costume designers. In 1998 she was recognized with a Thomas Jefferson Award for her research and creative accomplishments.
Marianne Custer
Professor - Costume Design
208 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996
E-mail: mcuster@utk.edu