Biography
Bobby Brewer-Wallin, Professor of Theatre, designs costumes for theatre and dance. With an MFA in costume design from CalArts, he joined the Theatre Department faculty in 2000. In addition to designing costumes for all main stage productions, he teaches courses in Costume Design, Global Fashion History, Clothing + Memory, Voices of the Pacific Northwest, the thesis course for theatre majors with an emphasis in devised solo performance, and first-year seminars: Walking, Knowing, Making: A Peripatetic Exploration of Place, Ball Caps to Ball Gowns: Clothing + Memory as Embodied Thought; and Stitch x Stitch: Protest Clothing as Threads of Change.
Bobby has a great love for Shakespeare, having designed Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry V, Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, Love's Labour's Lost, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and Macbeth. Recent productions include Richard III and King Lear at Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre. He also has a passion for new work and has helped develop texts, design, and produce premiers for Magellanica (E.M. Lewis at Artists Repertory Theatre), The Snowstorm (Eric Nordin with Many Hats Collaboration at CoHo Theatre), Ithaka (Andrea Stolowitz at Artists Repertory Theatre), From A Dream to A Dream (Hand2Mouth Theatre and Stacja Szamocin), Flee Circus (The Burglars of Hamm), The Elektra Fugues (Ruth Margraff and Bottom's Dream), and Chokecherry (Erik Ehn and Bottom's Dream).
Brewer-Wallin is a Resident Artist at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon.