Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Heather Milam has been at Indiana University since 2013 and is an assistant professor and head of the MFA in costume technology. A native New Yorker, Heather obtained her bachelor’s degree in theatre from Ithaca College and her MFA from University of Idaho. After undergrad, she worked in NYC where she made Broadway costumes at Barbara Matera Ltd. She currently serves the national organization of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) as volunteer coordinator for the costume commission and regularly as one of the jurors and editors for the poster sessions. This past summer she was a draper/tailor for Santa Fe Opera and is a digital pattern maker for Pintler Costumes and Technologies in NYC. She is also a company member of Krymov Lab having last worked on several iterations of Big Trip. Her current research involves using technology in costume production and she is working on a book about advanced costume construction techniques, utilizing the Glenn Close Costume Collection in the Elizabeth Sage collection at IU. She presents regularly at the national conferences of USITT and this past summer also presented at CSA (Costume Society of America) and ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) and in October was on a panel titled “Technical Innovations in Costume” at World Stage Design in the United Arab Emirates.