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09/18/2026

•… & just like that we’re back to school.

This year I’m teaching Costume Design III to the design majors & Stagecraft once again to the dance majors at Northeastern University NYC (formerly Marymount Manhattan College).
I’m continuing on as the resident costume designer for the dance department there, doing costume director duties as well.
On top of this, my freelance projects are filling my soul, lately my work as resident designer for Skyla Schreter & Renversons is keeping me growing new skills & having fun with gorgeous artists, wrapping up our projects from the summer for things happening this fall.
There are also a few really really exciting projects for later in the school year that I’m already working a bit on (gotta start early to Tetris all the projects together) with some really gorgeous artists!!! But I’ll save those to share a bit more on as we get closer 🤗
… in the meantime… I’m just continually so amazed and grateful for my wonderful artist community here in NYC especially, but really all over the country. {and if anyone has 1) read this far and 2) has suggestions of people to connect with, I’m looking to grow my international community of wonderful collaborators — will be in France/Belgium in the winter & love meeting new artists— please connect me to your lovelies there!!}

•some slightly Bauhaus birds for Skyla Schreter ! Thanks for the great fitting, everyone, can’t wait to see it all come ...
09/13/2026

•some slightly Bauhaus birds for Skyla Schreter ! Thanks for the great fitting, everyone, can’t wait to see it all come together on film at Bannerman Castle Trust 🐦 •

•classes start next week Northeastern NYC Dance , and everyone’s summer projects to make this next year more successful ...
09/04/2026

•classes start next week Northeastern NYC Dance , and everyone’s summer projects to make this next year more successful than the last have pretty much concluded.

One of my tasks this summer included building a greater range of skin tone undergarments in a greater variety of sizes for the department. While bras on bras on bras are a bit tedious to create all summer, they’re lined up and ready to hopefully make for an even more sleek costume experience this coming year. Back-to-school here we come…!•

{catching up on some summer projects I’ve been busy with…}…•Please bookmark your early-mid November for something a litt...
08/31/2026

{catching up on some summer projects I’ve been busy with…}…

Please bookmark your early-mid November for something a little different, perhaps slightly eerie, & naturally whimsical from Renversons … keep eyes on their page for more information to come… ✨

Reposting from Fangqi Li the other day… these lovelies are SO TALENTED it was a delight to cross creative paths 🤗・・・AS A...
08/31/2026

Reposting from Fangqi Li the other day… these lovelies are SO TALENTED it was a delight to cross creative paths 🤗
・・・
AS ABOVE🤍

Choreography by Alexandra Light
Danced with Finnian Carmeci
Music by Matt Kidd (“A Light Without Flame”)
Costumes by Paillette by Lauren Carmen
lighting by connor sale
Photos by Hisae Aihara

•Almost ready for fittings with Skyla Schreter ! Just need to finish headpieces… the most fun part to construct (I love ...
08/31/2026

•Almost ready for fittings with Skyla Schreter ! Just need to finish headpieces… the most fun part to construct (I love crafts!) •

•gearing up some abstract birds for Skyla Schreter this last weekend! 🐦 •
08/26/2026

•gearing up some abstract birds for Skyla Schreter this last weekend! 🐦 •

08/21/2026

•Made a Poiret-Esq cocoon coat last weekend… 1910s fashion is some of my favorite 🤗 totally not body-conscious, but so totally fabulous•

• Renversons is entering their second season!! Without saying tooooo much, there’s going to be an eerie, immersive somet...
08/19/2026

• Renversons is entering their second season!!
Without saying tooooo much, there’s going to be an eerie, immersive somethin’ somethin’ coming later this fall that you’ll want to keep an eye out for, & as always I’m simply having the most fun with designing costumes for Artistic Director Minnie Lane Grace ‘s vision for the project… this one for Carlie Preskitt 🕷️ ! •

  Alexandra Light … these gorgeous photos were from moments of a project I designed costumes for, for Alexandra for Texa...
08/11/2026

Alexandra Light … these gorgeous photos were from moments of a project I designed costumes for, for Alexandra for Texas Ballet Theater, as photographed by the incredible Ted Forbes .

Texas Ballet Theater , can you please reunite this wonderful team for another project?? Had so so much fun working with your talented dancers, led by Alexandra 🤩🤩🤩


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two more of Ted’s stunning shots of Gazes at The Modern back in November that I swore I shared and then checked and hadn’t but this is really one of my favorite things I’ve ever choreographed and if you knew how fast and crazy a process it was to make then you know that it was really a triumph of these artists

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