Georgia Baker-
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (1966) gbaker@towson.edu,
(410) 704-3251
Georgia O'Daniel Baker is Professor of Theatre Arts at Towson University and director of the Costume Design program. She is Resident Costume Designer and Artistic Associate for the Maryland Arts Festival. As a professional designer Ms. Baker has designed costumes Off-Broadway, for Regional Theatres, summer stock, dance and television. Productions include the American Premiers of Eugene Ionesco's Journeys From the Dead , and Man with Bags . Regional premiers of Rags , Chess , and The Who's Tommy. Ms. Baker teaches Costume Design, Advance Costume Design Studio, Costume, Dress and Society ñ a two semester costume history sequence, and Color. Her students in costume design and makeup work professionally in New York, Los Angeles, Regional Theatres and television. They include Judy Dolan, 1997 Tony Award winner for the costume design for Candide . Tom Keller, Costume Designer on Spin City , Carl Fullerton, two-time Academy Award nominee for Makeup Design. At the U.S. Institute of Technology National Conferences, she reviews graduate and undergraduate costume portfolios for the Institute. She is also a member of the Costume Society of America and The Canadian Institute of Theatre Technology. In addition to A Handbook of Costume Drawing , she has published work in Projects for Teaching Costume Design , USITT, Inc. Other interests include serving on the non-profit committee to restore the Thomas Lamb 1915 Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore and as a consultant to the Baltimore Museum of Industry. Exhibitions include ìA Hundred Years of Costume, From Reality to Theatrical Reality,î and ìTheatrical Design ñ A Student Perspective.î Regular exhibits of original clothing and constructed costumes, research and sketches are displayed in cases at the Center for the Arts.
