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ABOUT

DAWNA

From a Ringmaster’s majestic three-piece coat and tails to the paisley on stripes color explosion of a clown’s baggy pants, Dawna Oak understands that costumes are speaking to the audience just as much as the music, movement and mechanics.

Oak knows exactly where to place 5,000 resplendent crystals on just the right kind of fabrics so that when the spotlight hits that performer, an audience will exhale (nearly in unison!) at the near-blinding shine.

All Things Costume

FELD ENTERTAINMENT

As Senior Director of Costumes and Costume Designer at Feld Entertainment for the past 22 years, Oak is ultimately responsible for overseeing the shining moments of thousands of costumes including Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, Disney On Ice and Marvel Universe Live! to name a few!

COSTUME DESIGN

Oak has also been the performer in the costume, so she truly understands how a performer feels and moves when a costume is conceived, tailored, and made well. She has firsthand experience in the costumes which helps her focus her own talents (a natural instinct for color, texture, movement and drama) on what she does best, costume design.

AROUND THE WORLD

Oak is a costuming expert in all forms of media — television, film, live entertainment and theatre–and her work has been seen in productions for Showtime, The Kennedy Center, on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre and Booth Theatre as well as internationally in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Malta and Istanbul, Turkey.

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