Maggie Morgan of Los Angeles is an award-winning, professional costume designer for theatre and film. She joined the UC Davis Theatre and Dance Department faculty in 2003. During the 2002-2003 academic year, as a visiting professor, she designed the costumes for the spring 2003 production of Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore in the Mondavi Center. A UC Davis alumna, her career began here in the theatre department in the 1980s. Since graduation she has worked continuously all over the country in regional theatre, opera, ballet, on and off Broadway and on feature films in New York and Los Angeles. She was the visiting assistant professor of design here in the spring of 2001, and designed the costumes for Marlowe's The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus directed by William Gaskill. Her regional theatre design work includes The Haunting of Winchester at San Jose Rep, The Clean House at TheatreWorks, Dirty Blonde at Sacramento Theatre Company, A Reckoning at the Magic Theatre, Vincent at Brixton, The Blue Room and Sideman at the Pasadena Playhouse, The Homecoming and The Countess at South Coast Rep, The Birthday Party (L. A. Weekly Award- best revival), Waiting for Godot (Ovation Nomination) at the Matrix Theatre, Demonology and The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite (Drama-Logue Award) at the Mark Taper Forum. She has designed shows in New York at SOHO Rep, HB Playwrights, and NADA and also at New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre. Film designs include the independent features Sex and a Girl and Breathing Hard. She has worked as an assistant costume designer on many feature films including: A Bronx Tale, Apollo 13, Casino, Wag the Dog, Men in Black, The Grinch, Murder by Numbers and Mona Lisa Smile. She is a member of United Scenic Artists, local 829 and the Costume Designers Guild, local 892. She holds an MFA in design from the Yale School of Drama and has also taught costume design at FIDM in Los Angeles and Columbia College of Chicago "Semester In L.A."