Sarah E. Bussard

Biography

Sarah E. Bussard is a Costume, Makeup/Hair Designer who is also trained as a wigmaker. Sarah has called many places home, including Cincinnati, OH, Mishawaka, IN and Quezon City, Philippines, where she spent most of her childhood.

Her design and production work spans a variety of mediums and venues, including theatre, opera, film, and video, including collaborations with Music Theatre Wichita, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Olney Theatre Centre, Sarasota Opera, Virginia Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and Chautauqua Opera. Film and Video work includes The American Experience with Rick Burns, Seven Below, Silk Trees (Evermore Pictures), as well as Evaluating Kaitly, and 177, award-winning short films with Runaway Pen Productions.

Favorite selected designs include The Drowsy Chaperone (Music Theatre Wichita), Raisin in the Sun (Indiana Repertory Theatre), The Imaginary Invalid (Notre Dame Department of Theatre), Love’s Labor’s Lost (Wichita State), Matrilineage (Wichita Contemporary Dance Theatre), and Metamorphoses (Taylor University).

She received her M.F.A. in Makeup and Wig Design at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) where she studied wig making and design, and her B.A. in Liberal Studies (concentrations in Theatre, Literature, and Writing) from Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana. Her research interests include traditional Asian dress, historical wig making, and unique stories in dress history.