Heather is a professional draper, tailor, and experienced educator. She is currently an Assistant professor at Indiana University. She heads a graduate program in costume technology. Her costumes have been onstage at American Players Theatre (Hamlet), Illinois Shakespeare Theatre (love's labor's lost, loves labor's won), Utah Shakespeare theatre (Titus Andronicus, To Kill a Mockingbird), Indiana University, University of Alabama, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, KitchenTheatre, and many more including some on Broadway, in Opera, Ballet, Concerts and Movies. She is active in USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) serving as a Vice Commissioner, jury and editor for the Costume Poster Sessions, and occasional presenter at the national conferences. A native New Yorker, Heather obtained her bachelor’s degree in theatre from Ithaca College. Upon graduation, she moved to NYC, where she made Broadway+ costumes at Barbara Matera Ltd. She obtained her MFA in theatre from the University of Idaho and spent a summer at the Moscow Arts Theatre School. Her current research involves the use of digital technologies with costume making and a book project examining advanced construction techniques seen in the Glenn Close Costume Collection.