WINNER! Circus Tickets

Congratulations toLisa Sharples!
She is our last winner of a family four-pack to see Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at the Energy Solutions Arena! Congratulations, and enjoy the show!
That was our last family four-pack of tickets that we were given from Ringling Bros. to give away, but you can still purchase tickets at the Energy Solutions Arena box office, or at ringling.com. 

Meet: Susan Hilferty 

Costume Designer 

Highlights: 

• A Tony Award®-winning costume designer, Susan Hilferty has designed stylish attires for more than 300 productions, from Broadway to the Bay Area, theatre productions and operas, to dances, films and television. Her work has also been produced internationally in United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada, Singapore, Germany and Australia. 

• Susan is best-known for her costume design for the Broadway production of Wicked for which she won a Tony, a Drama Desk and an Outer Critics Circle Award. 

• Susan considers herself an historian, a sociologist and an art historian. 

Some say “the clothes make the man” and if that’s the case, the performers of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Presents FULLY CHARGED have been transformed to stunning, exotic characters thanks to the talents of Susan Hilferty. 

A Tony Award®-winning costume designer, Susan has designed stylish attires for more than 300 productions, from Broadway to the Bay Area, theatre productions and operas, to dances, films and television. Her work has also been produced internationally in United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada, Singapore, Germany and Australia. Susan is best-known for her costume design for the Broadway production of Wicked for which she won a Tony, a Drama Desk and an Outer Critics Circle Award. Some of her other credits include Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), Lestat (Tony Nomination), Assassins Into the Woods (Tony and Drama Desk nominations; Hewes Award). 

In addition to being a costume designer, Susan considers herself an historian, a sociologist and an art historian. “To me, what’s so exciting about designing costumes is trying to understand the world that the storyline takes place in,” explains Susan. Before designing costumes, she spends a lot of time researching the era in which the story takes place. Then she can create a parallel universe through the design of the costume to complement the set design. 

Susan received her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Syracuse University and her Master’s degree from Yale. She is chair of the Department of Design for Stage and Film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.