Sandra Woodall
| Costume Designer
A renowned visual artist and designer, Woodall created scenic and costume designs for San Francisco Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, and the national ballets of Austria, Finland, Georgia and Norway, as well as Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Project, Singapore Dance Theatre, Cincinnati Ballet, and others. Her designs were seen at ODC, the Public Theater, ACT, the Magic Theatre, the Eureka Theatre, California Shakespeare Festival, and other companies. She worked closely with notable choreographers including Val Caniparoli, Liam Scarlett, Jorma Elo, Trey McIntyre, Yuri Possokhov, Amy Seiwert, Michael Smuin, and Helgi Tómasson.
Woodall received Isadora Duncan awards in dance five times, as well as Critics’ Circle awards in theatre. Woodall’s artwork and designs were shown in solo exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and the San Francisco Museum of Performance and Design, and in numerous group exhibitions, including the 2011 Wearable Art exhibit in Hong Kong.
In 2000, Woodall was a Fulbright scholar at the Taiwan National University of the Arts (TNUA); working with Lai, she contributed designs and visual consultation to many shows in Taiwan and China, including 2009’s stadium-scale opening pageant for the Deaf Olympics and the 100th anniversary celebration of Taiwan National Day.
