Kurt S. Hultgren is the Costume Designer in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The College of the Holy Cross where he has designed for more than sixty productions. His credits include such classics as Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar and Measure for Measure, as well as Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and Three Sisters. From the 18th-century, he designed productions of Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, Farquhar’s The Beaux Stratagem and The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere. His portfolio includes designs of The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams, Spring Awakening by Franz Wedeking, and The Threepenny Opera and The Caucasian Chaulk Circle by Berthold Brecht. And among the contemporary playwrights, he designed productions of John Guare’s House of Blue Leaves, Lydie Breeze, Marco Polo Sings a Solo and The Marriage of Bette and Boo; Sam Shepard’s Buried Child; Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart; and Kurt Vonnegut’s Happy Birthday Wanda June.

As costume designer, he has collaborated several times on original productions with librettist Lynn Kremer and composer Shirish Korde, including A Separate Prison, commissioned by the Boston Center of the Arts in 1995, and Bhima’s Journey, Conquistadors, Chitra and Rasa, which all debuted at The College of the Holy Cross. After Rasa’s debut in 1992, the production was invited to a festival of contemporary music at Texas Christian University in Dallas, Texas, as well as to the The Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. A revised production of Rasa was performed at the Sonic Boom Festival at Columbia University in 1998. Mimpi, a further collaboration with Kremer, debuted in 2004 at The College of the Holy Cross. A remounted production was acclaimed at the Bali Arts Festival in June 2009, one of two performance venues for the production in Indonesia.