Resume
RELATED WORK
Jan 2024-Current SEWING AND FASHION INSTRUCTOR, YMCA
At YMCA in Northern New Jersey, job includes: teaching children ages 5-14 and adults hand and machine sewing as well as other fiber and textile based arts
Nov 2022-Current FIBER-MEETS-PERFORMANCE ARTIST
Resituating the act of performance through costume builds and fiber-based artwork, often with a focus on sustainability and experiences with disability and chronic illness (@giulianna_costumi)
May 2019-Current FREELANCE COSTUME DESIGNER/SEAMSTRESS/RESEARCHER
Serving as a costume designer on various theatrical productions, as well as constructing costumes, restoring extant garments, performing alterations, providing historical research, costume-specfic dramaturgy, and text analysis
Sept 2019-Feb 2020 INTERN, HELEN UFFNER VINTAGE CLOTHING
Under Helen Uffner in Long Island City, Queens, jobs included: pulling, organizing, restoring, and researching extant garments from 1860-1980 for rent by film, television, and theater; writing invoices and checking in productions
Oct 2016-May 2019 HEAD COSTUME SHOP ASSISTANT, RAMAPO COLLEGE
Under Beba Shamash, jobs included: supervising and assisting students in Craft of Costume, Practicum, and Producing classes, pulling costumes, research, alterations, drafting, and construction for mainstage productions
PUBLICATION HISTORY
Nasta, Giulianna. "built for nineteen/i ask that I lay down in the vines: a dialogue," Close Knit NYC, Upcoming (Summer 2026).
Nasta, Giulianna. “Sewing Cirlce for Sustainability,” Teaching Fashion Sustainably: Pedagogy, Perspectives, Practice, edited by Sara Idacavage and Lauren Downing Peters, Bloomsbury Publishing, Upcoming (late 2026/early 2027), p TBD.
CONFERENCE HISTORY
Junk Kouture (with Kelly Wenz), Art & Soul (Fall 2025 Art Educators of New Jersey Conference), Princeton Marriott at Forrestal, Princeton, New Jersey, Oct 2025.
COSTUME DESIGN
2024 The Addams Family (Dir: Maleesa De La Cruz, Secaucus High School)
2024 $29.95 (Dance) (Choreo: Stefanie Batten Bland, Montclair State University)
2024 Noula (Dance) (Choreo: Gaspard Louis, Montclair State University)
2023 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (JR Pilot) (Dir: Joey Nasta, Aspire Performing Arts)
2023 Puffs (Dir: Lisa Beth Vettoso, Aspire Performing Arts)
2023 Mean Girls (JR Edition) (Dir: Brooke Rutkowski, Aspire Performing Arts)
2023 Mean Girls (HS Edition) (Dir: Blake Spence, Aspire Performing Arts)
2021 It’s a Wonderful Life (Dir: Cheryl Delin, RHS New Players)
2021 Into the Woods (Dir: Joey Nasta, Eccentric Theater Company)
2020 Titus Andronicus * (Dir: Joey Nasta, Rogue Ensemble)
*featured in The New York Times and Time Out New York
2019 Sweeney Todd (Dir: Reegan McKenzie, Eccentric Theater Company)
2018 medea and medea/for medea** (Dir: Justin W. Cornell and Christina Balkovic Wolfe, Ramapo College)
**awarded KCACTF Certificate of Merit for Costume Design
ASSOCIATE COSTUME DESIGN
2018 Frankenstein (Des: Beba Shamash, Dir: Megan Callahan, Ramapo College)
ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGN
2017 Twelfth Night (Des: Jennifer Paar, Dir: Maria Vail, Ramapo College)
COSTUME COORDINATION
2019 Aunt Leaf (Dir: Giulianna Nasta, Ramapo College)
2018 Advanced Directing One Acts (Dir: Various Ramapo College)
COSTUME CRAFTING & CONSTRUCTION (select)
Beauty and the Beast (JR Edition) (Des: Giulianna Nasta, 2025)
The Addams Family (Des: Giulianna Nasta, 2024)
Into the Woods (Des: Giulianna Nasta, 2021)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Des: Beba Shamash, 2019)
The Library (Des. Tina Wasielewski, 2019)
medea and medea/for medea (Des. Giulianna Nasta, 2018)
Urinetown: The Musical (Des: Beba Shamash, 2018)
Frankenstein (Des: Beba Shamash, 2018)
Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Des: Beba Shamash, 2017)
Twelfth Night (Des: Jennifer Paar, 2017)
Of Mice and Men (Des. Beba Shamash, 2016)
Iphigenia and Other Daughters (Des: Christine Cioletti, 2016)
EDUCATION
MA in Theatre Studies, Montclair State University (2022-2024)
BA in Theater (Concentration in Design/Technology), Ramapo College (2016-2019)