Assistant Professor, Costume Technology/Design

M.F.A. in Costume Design, University of South Dakota
B.S. in Theatre, Wayne State University

Office Telephone: 243-2871
Fax Number: 243-5726
E-mail: wendy.starkprey@umontana.edu



Wendy has designed costumes from the Midwest to the East Coast—her designs appeared on the stages of St. Michael’s Playhouse, The Black Hills Playhouse, The Nebraska Shakespeare Theatre, The Hartt School of Music, Creighton University, Nebraska Theatre Caravan, and the Omaha Community Playhouse. She has also spent many years as a draper in regional theatre and opera, working for Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale School of Drama, Hartford Stage Company, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, and The Washington National Opera. Her recent areas of research include spending extended time at the Library of Congress working with their Prints and Photographs Room for a future publication titled “The United States in the 1930s and '40s: Fashion vs. Reality.” Wendy’s research is a comparative look at fashion, media, and advertising and how it affected the everyday clothing of Americans during the Depression and World War II. She designed the costumes for the Department of Drama/Dance’s productions of Urinetown, The Musical, Tartuffe, and Gypsy and Montana Repertory Theatre’s 2008 production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Her costume designs will again be seen across the country in 2009 in MRT’s national tour of To Kill a Mockingbird.