Sandra Finney has designed costumes in Hawaii since 1971, including productions for Kumu Kahua Theatre, Manoa Valley Theatre, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, The Hawaii Shakespeare Company, Mid-Pacific School of the Arts and the Hawaii Opera Theatre. Her primary focus, however, is her work done for the Department of Theatre and Dance. Her costume designs have included numerous Shakespeare productions, Youth Theatre, Dance and a wide variety of Western Theatre projects. Her specialties in Asian Theatre include Jingju (Chinese Opera) and Kabuki headdress and costuming, the traditional techniques learned from the visiting artists as well as in her travels to Japan and China. Sandra has designed many “fusion” projects involving Asian theatre influences. She has also created two productions involving puppets for the Ernst Lab Theatre: a student scripted and directed rod puppet version of “Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnell”, and a multi-media production entitled “A Flight of Dragons”.