Dr. Heather Striebel's Designs

Dr. Heather Striebel earned her Ph.D. in Apparel Design (May 2022) from the Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design Department and her M.F.A. in Costume Design (May 2019) from the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Currently, she is serving as the Assistant Professor of Costume Design and Resident Costume Designer for New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM). In addition to her professorship duties, she is a freelance costume and fashion designer. Previously, she was the Costume Director at Arizona Broadway Theatre (Peoria, Arizona) and a high school theater educator where she established those school's theater programs. While teaching at the secondary level, she was the sole director and designer for those Fine and Performing Arts Departments in Arizona.

She was recently awarded the Mary Mitchell Fashion Design Award (2021) for her LED integrated garment that was also selected by Costume Society of America (CSA) to be presented at the 2021 National Symposium. She won the Mary Mitchell Fashion Design Award (2020) for her up-cycled garment that was shown at Omaha Fashion Week (2020) and an ariZoni (Zoni) Award for Best Costume Design for TheaterWorks’ production of The Little Mermaid (2019). She was awarded the Arizona Theater Teacher of the Year Award (2013) from the Arizona State Thespian Board for her work within the high schools.

A Sampling of Dr. Striebel's previous design and/or directing credits include:

Fashion Design:
Project Funway (Lincoln, Nebraska)
Omaha Fashion Week (2018-2020)

Theatre: 
Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 (Cumberland County Playhouse)
Carmela Full of Wishes, As You Like It, The Addams Family (New Mexico State Univesrity - '23 - '24)
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Mother Courage & Her Children, that drive thru monterey, The Prom (New Mexico State University - '24 - '25)
Something Rotten!, The Little Mermaid (Theater Works)
Dirty, Rotten, Scoundrels, Escape to Margaritaville, Spamalot (Arizona Broadway Theatre)
Violet (Glenn Korff School of Music)
Mother Courage & Her Children, The Serpent (Nebraska Rep)
This Random World (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

Film: 
The Diary of Michael Shiner (Animating History/Western Meadowlark - Film)
The Bell Affair (Animating History/Western Meadowlark - Film)
IMDB Link: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11684305/ 

Directing:
The Great Gatsby
Aida
Steel Magnolias
Hairspray
The Sound of Music
The Miracle Worker
The Mousetrap
Once on this Island
Footloose
Jekyll & Hyde
Harvey
Father of the Bride
The Yellow Boat. 

Upcoming Projects:
Lend Me a Soprano (Blank Conversations)
Beyond Therapy (Las Cruces Community Theatre)
Sanctuary City (New Mexico State University)
A Christmas Carol (New Mexico State University)
Into the Woods (New Mexico State University)