BIO

Michelle Hunt's design credits include: Miss Electricity (La Jolla Playhouse); Romeo y Julieta (The Old Globe);  A Festival of Christmas, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Lamb's Players Theatre); Rabbit Hole, Shipwrecked!, The Dresser, A Christmas Carol, Don't Dress for Dinner, Dracula and String of Pearls (North Coast Repertory Theatre); Playboy of the Western World (New Village Arts); Dog Act (Moxie Theatre); A Bright Room Called Day (Diversionary Theatre); and The Spitfire Grill (Hope Repertory). 

Assistant Design credits include The Women, Romeo and Juliet (The Old Globe) (Anna R. Oliver, designer); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (The Alley Theatre) (Judith Dolan, designer); Mother Courage and Her Children (La Jolla Playhouse) (David Zinn, designer).

Michelle received her MFA in Costume Design from the University of California, San Diego in 2007.  During her time at UCSD, she designed the 2007 Quinn-Martin production of Robert O'Hara's Good Breeding, directed by the playwright.  She also designed The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker, which won her a KPBS Patté Award for Theatre Excellence in 2006.  Other work at UCSD: Measure for Measure (2006), The Nightshade Family (2006), 11 Hills of San Francisco (2005), and DanceAlive! (2005). 


Michelle's work was seen at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial; her design for Steven Berkoff's adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis was included in a representative display of the work of UCSD students, and her design of Aristophanes' The Birds was a part of a critiqued gallery of international students' work.

 

Awards
KPBS Patte Award 2007
KPBS Patte Award 2006