Wendy Gamble is returning to the Alabama Ballet for her eighteenth season as Costume Director.  She also spent an additional five years as Costume Assistant training under Betty Smith.  Ms.Gamble assisted in the creation of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, Donizetti Variations, Tarentella and Serenade. She has also worked in the construction of new costumes for Giselle, Paquita and Swan Lake. Design credits for Ms. Gamble include costumes for Pas de Quatre, La Bayadere; and Roger VanFleteren’s Roson, Shoo-Pah, Bonnie and Clyde, Cinderella, Messin’ with Mozart, Dracula, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, Death and the Maiden, Of One Voice, 1 and 5, UnRavelled; and Alice for Alice in Wonderland. She has especially enjoyed the design and construction of the costumes for our productions of Jiri Kylian’s Sechs Tanze, and Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo. Wendy has also created costumes for Germaul Barnes’ In the Folds, Frederick Rocas’ Kali, Teri Weksler’s Bonhomie, Nadine Barton’s Watts and Nerves, JaMorris Rivers’ The Purple Ones and Michael Fothergill’s Laid to Wrest and Chiaroscuro.  Along with her work at the Alabama Ballet, Wendy has enjoyed working with Wes Chapman in assisting to costume the wonderful students at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and collaborating with Opera Birmingham to costume the students for their production of Hansel and Gretel.