Costume Designer

Montana Levi Blanco

Trade / Mary Motorhead

Biography

Montana Levi Blanco is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (BM Oboe Performance), Oberlin College (BA History), Brown University (MA Public Humanities), and the Yale School of Drama (MFA Design). Prior to attending Yale, he was the Robert L. Tobin Curatorial Intern at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. His projects for 2022 include The Skin of Our Teeth and A Strange Loop, both opening on Broadway in April 2022; Emma O’Halloran’s Trade/ Mary Motorhead for Irish National Opera; sandblasted by Charly Evon Simpson and White Girl In Danger by Michael R. Jackson at the Vineyard Theatre; (February 2022); ‘Daddy’ by Jeremy O. Harris at the Almeida Theatre in London; Epiphany by Brian Watkins at LCT/Mitzi Newhouse; Mother Russia by Lauren Yee, at La Jolla Playhouse; and Grass by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at Signature Theatre. Opera credits include Wayne Shorter’s Iphigenia (Kennedy Center), Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (Houston Grand Opera) and Puccini’s La rondine (Minnesota Opera). Selected Off-Broadway credits include Fairview, Is God Is (SOHO REP); Ain’t No Mo’ (Public); The House That Will Not Stand, Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop); Fabulation, The Death of the Last Black Man (Signature); and Fefu and Her Friends (Theatre For a New Audience). In addition to the Tony Award, Blanco has received the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Henry Hewes, and Obie Awards.