Holly Hynes is an award-winning costume designer with over 250 ballets to her credit, including more than 70 at New York City Ballet where she was Director of Costumes for 21 years. Hynes’ designs are also on view in companies around the world, including American Ballet Theatre, The Bolshoi Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, La Scala Ballet, The Kirov Ballet, The Royal Ballet in London, Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris, The Royal Danish Ballet, Bulgarian State Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Koninklijk Ballet van Vlaanderen, San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet, Den Norske Ballet, Finnish National, BalletMet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet Vancouver, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, American Repertory Ballet, 

Pacific Northwest Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Nashville Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, and Leipzig Ballet. She is honored to have two current productions of The Nutcracker running at The Kansas City Ballet and Charlotte Ballet and a third came in the winter of 2020 for Colorado Ballet in Denver. She was also the resident designer for The Suzanne Farrell Ballet at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC for 15 years. Recognized in the reproduction of important historical ballet works, she is a leading authority in the accurate recreation of the original designs for Balanchine and Robbins ballet costumes. She was the recipient of the 2018 TDF/Irene Sharaff Award for Life Time Achievement for Design in Dance. Past Designs for BalletMet include Christopher Wheeldon’s Carousel (A Dance) and Stanton Welch’s Don Quixote, The Firebird, and Blue and Orange.