Sera Bourgeau
Costume Designer — WOYZECK
Sera Bourgeau’s NYC and Regional Credits include Nickel Mines (New York Musical Theatre Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New York Shakespeare Exchange), Refuge (Blessed Unrest/Teatri Oda), Still Life With Iris (Long Wharf Theatre), Pete(Her) Pan, Jr. (Northern Stage), Intimate Apparel (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center), Some Lovers,Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (Adirondack Theatre Festival), The Shuck, The Lion in Winter, Chapter Two (Cape May Stage), West Side Story (Mill Mountain Theatre), Dial M For Murder (Theater at Monmouth). This summer, she is an Assistant Designer at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Sera is originally from Cape May, NJ, and is recently graduated from University of California, Irvine (UCI) with her MFA in Costume Design. She is now based in New York City.
WOYZECK was directed by Andrew Borba for UCI in March 2016
This play was a study in the societal dehumanization, and how those who sit further down on society’s food chain are often treated with the least amount of humanity. We wanted to morph the visuals as the play progressed, to better reflect the state of Woyzeck’s brain, as his world unravels. As Woyzeck’s health and well being deteriorate more and more, due to the long hours he works, the difficult medical studies he submits himself to, and his jealousy and paranoia that his wife may be cheating on him with his superior officer, we leave realism further behind, and enter a much more grotesque visual narrative putting us more directly inside the titular character’s ailing mind.
