Faculty Profile
Carey Blackerby Hanson
Brief Bio
Carey Hanson is a Professor of Costume Design at the University of Mississippi. Her costume experience has covered a wide range of theatre, dance, opera, musical theatre, and theatre for youth. Carey has worked professionally with The Santa Fe Opera, Utah Opera, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre, Unicorn Children's Theatre, Sundance Summer Theatre, Old Lyric Repertory Company, Harper Joy Theatre, The Pink Garter Theatre, and Playmill Theatre-Jackson. Carey has worked professionally in the costume industry since 1991 and has been teaching costuming in higher education since 2000. Her most recent costume designs include Clybourne Park, Eurydice, The Seagull, Oedipus the King, Hair, And Then There Were None, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Six Characters in Search of an Author. She received recognition from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for her designs of Eurydice and Oedipus the King. Carey has been actively involved in the United States Institute for Theatre Technology for many years. She has served as the Vice Commissioner of Communication for the Costume Commission as well as a Director on the USITT Board of Directors
Degrees
BA |
Theatre |
Utah State University (1994) |
MFA |
Theatre |
Utah State University (2000) |
MA |
Theatre |
Utah State University (2000) |
Committee Memberships
University Standing Committee |
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University Standing Committee |
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Provost-Summer Cultural Programming |
Ad Hoc Committee |