Mark Zappone served Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) for five seasons as costume designer, shop supervisor, and wardrobe master (1983-1988). He then moved to Monte Carlo, where he managed costume shops for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo and Le Cabaret de Monte-Carlo, and subsequently continued on to Switzerland and Amsterdam with Holiday on Ice, and then back to Seattle to work with a variety of companies, including PNB. Mr. Zappone has collaborated with many well-known choreographers and designers, including Lucinda Childs, Maurice Sendak, Christopher Wheeldon, Kent Stowell, Twyla Tharp, George Balanchine Trust, Helgi Tomasson, Molissa Fenley, Dominique Dumais, Kevin O’Day, Martin Pakledinez, Christopher Stowell, Yuri Possokhov, Paul Tazewell, Paul Gibson, and Nuno Corte-Real, among others. In addition to his many designs for PNB, he has designed for San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Spectrum Dance Theatre, Peter Boal Solos, and Wear Moi Dancewear of London.