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Kitty Leech |
Biography
Kitty Leech is a costume designer, illustrator, photographer and teacher.
Her costume design credits include, Gross Indecency; the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,
at the Minetta Lane Theatre, as well as productions in San Francisco, Toronto,
Plymouth, England and London’s West End. Other notable Off-Broadway credits include
The Novelist, A Romantic Portrait of Jane Austen by Howard Fast, and Goblin Market at
the Circle-in-the-Square Theatre (Downtown) for which she received a Maharam award nomination.
For eight years she was the resident costume designer for the Lyrics and Lyricists concert series at the 92ndSt. Y.
She has designed costumes for numerous Off and Off-Off Broadway theatres, as well as for Republic National
Bank at the Big Apple Circus, Banker’s Trust, and People magazine. Other International credits include
The Almeida Theatre, London, Carnavale in Venezia, and Festivale Inteatro in Polverigi, Italy, the Via,
and Exit Festivals in France. and The Edinburgh Festival.
Most recently she designed costumes for the Mining Project at the Liz Leheman Dance Exchange and Waiting for Green, a collaboration between Annie B Parson and Ethel String Quartet at the World Financial Center
Her sketches have been shown at the Susan Teller Gallery in Soho New York, Greenberg and Hammer Inc
57th st. NYC and at the Cosmopolitan Club in Philadelphia. One of her sketches was awarded the Achenbach
Foundation for Graphic Arts Curator’s Choice at the San Francisco Print Fair in 2002.
Her photographs have been seen Off-Broadway, in Black Masks magazine, in the on-line exhibits of Here is
New York, and World Stage Design and in numerous NYU locations, publications, and websites. Kitty was
the resident costume designer at Tisch Drama for 18 years. She also on the faculty at the Playwrights
Horizon’s Theatre School, has taught at at Parson’s School of Design and lectured at Pratt Institute of
Design and Lincoln Center Theatre.
She is currently the chair of the IATSE Costume Design Exam committee, and is on the TDF Costume Collection
Advisory Committee which administers the Irene Sharaff Awards. She is a member of New York Women in Film and
Television, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and the Children’s Book Illustrating Group.
