Charles Schoonmaker has extensive experience designing costumes for television, theatre, dance and opera. Current projects for Concert Theatre Works include Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Grieg’s Peer Gynt, and The Chevalier. For Boston Baroque, his credits include Handel’s Agrippina and Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. Boston Midsummer Opera involvements include The Barber of Seville, Don Pasquale, The Italian Girl in Algiers, Trouble in Tahiti and Bon Appetit. Schoonmaker is the recipient of four Daytime Emmy Awards for his work in television and the IRNE for best costume design for Venus in Fur at the Huntington Theatre in Boston. Additional regional theatre credits include productions at Israeli Stage, Arts Emerson, the Berkshire Theatre Group, Dorset Theatre Festival, Chester Theatre Company, Weston Playhouse, Northern Stage, Bay Street Theatre, Riverside Theatre (FL), and seven seasons as the resident costume designer at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Other dance credits include The Richmond Ballet, The Atlanta Ballet, Nashville Ballet, BAM Next Wave, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem and The Limon Company. Television credits include All My Children, As the World Turns and Another World. He teaches costume design at Bennington College. charles-schoonmaker.com.