Joanne Martin
Joanne Martin, Lecturer/Costume Shop Supervisor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Santa Clara University, received a BA (Hons.) from Central School of Art and Design in London and an MFA from the University of Idaho where she was an Ella Olesen Scholar.
Joanne previously taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of New Mexico. She most recently designed costumes for a production of 'The Seagull' for Shakespeare and Associates and costumes for 'First Person Shooter', her eighth show at City Lights Theatre in San Jose. Some of the other companies that Joanne has worked for are The Santa Fe Opera, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theatre, Seattle Opera, Penumbra Theatre, The Great American History Theatre, The Adobe Theatre, The Blythe Eden Dance Company and The Valley Shakespeare Festival, Albuquerque Little Theatre, Riverside Theatre, Shapiro and Smith Dance Company, Illusion Theatre, Skewed Visions, The Minnesota Centennial Showboat, and the Lionel Hampton School of Music. Joanne has made costumes for the Emmy Award winning PBS television show, Wishbone, and has constructed costumes for dance and theatre pieces by Mark Morris, Lar Lubovich, Neil Greenberg, Ping Chong, Bill Evans, Merce Cunningham, Wendy Knox, and The James Sewell Ballet. At Santa Clara University Joanne has designed Wonderful Tennessee, King Lear, A View from the Bridge and dance pieces by Kristin Kusanovich and David Popalisky.
Joanne's costume designs are included in The Costume Technician’s Handbook, Third Edition, by Liz Covey and Rosemary Ingham. Joanne was most recently written about in 'Dressing the Show - Inside the Costume Shop', an Article in Dramatics Magazine, March 2006 and "Careers in Technical Theatre" by Mike Lawler.
