Brenda has worked in Chicago as a freelance costume designer for over 10 years. Her Stage Left Theatre design credits include WHAT OF THE NIGHT?, PRINCIPAL PRINCIPLE, THE FIRESTORM and KINGSVILLE. She has also worked with Drury Lane Oak Brook, Theatre at the Center, Light Opera Works, Shattered Globe, Chicago Opera Theatre, Theatre Seven of Chicago, Polarity, Fox Valley Repertory and Pavement Group. Her designs have also been seen at several regional theatres including Peninsula Players, Forestburgh Playhouse, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Black Hills Playhouse, Sierra Repertory Theatre. For fun, she likes to take circus classes and hang upside down. She has a Master of Fine Arts form the University of Connecticut.