Laura Crow, Costume Design Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut. Her costume designs have been seen in over 300 productions from Japan, Russia and China to Turkey and the Czech Republic as well as England, Europe and the United States. Her work is best known through her poetic realism designs on Broadway. Her many awards include the Drama Desk, Obie, Villager, Maharam and American Theatre Wing Awards (New York Broadway and offBroadway), the DramaLogue and BackStage West Garland Award (Los Angeles), Joseph Jefferson Nominations and Awards (Chicago), four ZONI Awards (Phoenix) and the Bay Area Critics Award (San Francisco). She has been selected five times to be among those representing American Theatre Design at the Prague Quadrennial and her designs have been selected for WSD in Toronto, Seoul and Cardiff, as well as for the Exhibition at Lincoln Center: Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designers, highlighting 100 designers over the past 100 years in New York City. Her designs were part of the exhibition Costume Design at the Turn of the Century: 1990 – 2015 at the Bakhrushin Museum in Moscow. Laura Crow is one of the founders of OISTAT’s Costume Design Group and was head for 10 years (19992010).