Biography

Associate Professor of Costume Technology at Louisiana State University, Kyla holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from the University of Central Florida and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Costume Technology from Ohio University. She has created costumes for the Santa Fe Opera, the Washington National Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and the Texas Shakespeare Festival. She currently teaches and manages the costume shop at Louisiana State University. Professional costume design credits include Operating Systems, Airline Highway, and The Mountaintop, at Louisiana’s Swine Palace Theatre; Kimberly Akimbo, Tender Atlas, and Witch at McNeese State University, and the world premiere of The Christmas Spider at Opera Louisiane. Kyla enjoys creating costumes for competitive dance troupes and uniforms for the dance teams of professional basketball teams the Orlando Magic and the Detroit Pistons. Passionate about the possibilities of devised theatre, she designed and created costumes for Savage/Love, a work of physical theatre performed at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, and Love and Information, a semi-devised piece performed at Louisiana State University. Her research on the rewarding chaos of devising was first published in the 2017 Theatre Symposium and is now available through Routledge Press in her book, Creating Costumes for Devised Theatre.