Yixuan Duan
Costume Designer — THE MAGIC FLUTE
Yixuan Duan is a freelance Costume designer for Film and Theater. Her design credits include The Magic Flute (Phillip Chosky Theatre), I’m Very Into You (Helen Wayne Rauh Theatre), Tao Hua Yuan Ji (One of the prime designer of the show in Hunan Province Opera and Dance Theater). It’s Oh So Quie（Helen Wayne Rauh Theatre), One Word （Carnegie Mellon Television Workshop). Golden Eagle Festival Opening Ceremony leading dancers costume design (Hunan TV of China). Designed the costumes for the Cross Art Dancing Unbounded in the International Communication of Contemporary Dance Works Forum. Her assistant credits include on The Three Musketeers (Phillip Chosky Theatre), 4.48 Psychosis （Helen Wayne Rauh Theatre). Yixuan received the 2017 USITT Young Designers Zelma H. Weisfeld Costume Design Nomination. West Coast Drama Alumni Clan Award – in recognition of excellence in Costume Design. Award for Excellent in the “Kylin Cup” Costume Design Contest (the slopwork was collected by BDA and was an itinerant exhibition in the other art institutes in Beijing).
Yixuan is originally from Changzhi City, China, received her MFA in Costume Design from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and is currently based in Los Angeles, CA.
THE MAGIC FLUTE was directed by Dan Rigazzi for CMU in October 2017.
Our production infused Western and Asian costume styles and worked to incorporate the two different worlds. These two worlds are represented in different colors: gold and white against blue and black. I used notions of high fashion sensibility to heighten the sense of excitement and magic. In the design, the Asian elements are holistic and harmonious and the Western elements are emphasized.
