LAUREN LOWELL-Costume Designer Lauren Lowell is a Professor of Costume Design at Illinois State University. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Costume Design from the University of Georgia. She also holds a Bachelor of Art degree from Central Michigan University with a major in General Theatre and double minors in Music and Broadcasting. Upcoming projects include costume designs for the film Normal Again: A True Crime (Directed by Jack Conroy) and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged with Noble Fool Theatre Company. Recent design credits include Underneath the Lintel (Noble Fool Theatre Company, Chicago), Shame the Devil! An Audience with Fanny Kemble (The Fanny Kemble Project/Stockyards Theatre Company), Bald Grace, Pirate Queen! (Stockyards Theatre Project, Chicago), Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Same Time Next year, Nine, Where's Charley? and Seussical, the Musical! (The Little Theatre on the Square, Sullivan, IL); Glass Menagerie (Apollo Professional Theatre of Peoria), Before the Fire (University of Georgia, Shorter College, and New York Fringe Festival), Ring Round the Moon, The Crucible, Amadeus, The Lover, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Illinois State University), Measure for Measure and The Living Newspaper: 1935 (University of Georgia). Lauren spent 5 years at The Highlands Playhouse in the mountains of North Carolina where she served in various capacities including 3 years as the Costume Shop Manager and Resident Designer. Lauren is an active member of the United States Institute of Theatre Technology. Lauren received the W. Joseph Stell Design Expo Award in 2001, the USITT-SE Design Award in 2000, and has had two articles and a book review published in Costume Research Journal. She will be presenting a paper entitled "Silhouettes of Society" a workshop entitled "Historical Accuracy vs. Theatrical Reality" at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in January.