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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences

Performing Arts Program

Teaching areas

Costume Design, Dress History, Stage Makeup, Figure Drawing and Media Techniques

Research areas

Costume Design, Stage makeup and special effects, Fashion and Textile History, Theatre History, Rendering Techniques, Creative Processes for Performing Arts

Education

MFA, Theatre Arts / Costume Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States, 2014

BA, Fashion And Textiles, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2010

Professional experience

Adjunct Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, United States, 2014 - 2017

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, United States, 2011 - 2014

Memberships

Association of Dress Historians, England, April 2018

Costume Society of America, Mid-Atlantic Region, USA, April 2018

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2535

Ms. Isabela Marchi Tavares De Melo

Associate Professor

Isabela Tavares de Melo is a costume designer and illustrator. Her research interests include costume and fashion design, dress and textile history, theatre history and stage design processes. She has previously taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, and designed costumes for theatre, dance, and film in the US and Brazil. She has also collaborated in Broadway productions such as Lucky Guy'and Amazing Grace; in' the US television series Turn'and Mercy Street; and in the feature films Macbeth: Unhinged, presented at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016, and Loving, nominated for several film awards and winner of the 2017 Critic's Choice Award for Best Motion Picture.

Awards and Honors

First place Costume Design Competition, Southeastern Theatre Conference, 8 March 2013

Third place Costume Design Competition, Southeastern Theatre Conference, 9 March 2012