Dominique Fawn Hill
Costume Designer — VENUS
DOMINIQUE is a freelance costume designer. Her Regional Design Credits Include: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (KC Repertory Theatre); Pipeline (City Theatre Company);Julius Caesar (Asolo Rep). Other Design Credits: A Streetcar Named Desire (The Boston Court Theatre); The Way West (Fordham University); Beauty and The Beast (Cumberland Playhouse); Chicago and Clybourne Park (Sonoma Summer Theatre); Sweet Bird of Youth, (Gallery Players); La Bête, The Cherry Orchard, Venus (UCSD) and Afterlove (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Associate/Assistant Design: Natasha Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway), As You Like It and Twelfth Night (The Public Theater); Nollywood Dreams (Cherry Lane Theatre); Everybody (Signature Theatre).
Dominique is originally from the Bronx, NY, received her MFA from University of California-San Diego (UCSD), and is currently based in Los Angeles, CA.
VENUS was directed by Jesca Prudencio for UCSD in January 2015.
The director and I thought it was imperative for the truth to be as real and grotesque as possible. We wanted to highlight how inhumane people that were considered “other” or with deformities were treated, during this time. Some of the questions we asked ourselves were, how did these people survive physically and mentally? and if the only place you had to hide, was within yourself what does that look like? The costume research for this show was very intensive and hands on. I needed to feel the grit, I needed to cut and paste, inhale and tear, write and rewrite a new history.
