About Me

Meg Powers is a professional costume designer and inter-disciplinary artist with an emphasis on film-making, puppetry, animation, and comics/cartooning. Their design philosophy is driven by the humanity of the performers they dress, an empathetic approach to character analysis that emphasizes nuance, an exploration of history that specializes in subcultures and overlooked populations, and the desire to empower audiences across a broad spectrum of marginalization through catharsis, fun, and fantasy.

Recent costume design credits include Macbeth (puppet design & construction, The Helen Forman Theatre, 2024), Lewberger and the Wizard of Friendship (Theatre 2 @ Theatre Row, 2023), The Lightning Thief (Theatre Works USA, 2022), L'Orfeo (Yale Baroque Opera, 2022), Twelfth Night (Yale Shakespeare Repertory Project, 2022), Cabaret (Yale Dramatic Association, 2021), Constellations (Yale Cabaret, 2021), The Gods of the Mountains (The Spectral Citadel, 2021), The Kitchen of Truth (Yale Cabaret, 2021), Alice (Yale School of Drama, 2020), and TVC15: Long Live the New Flesh (Yale Cabaret, 2020).

In addition to designing, Powers is skilled in a wide breadth of craft disciplines and has built and customized pieces for opera, film, television, Broadway musicals, and beyond. They are the co-founder of the queer gothic performance collective, The Spectral Citadel, and they contribute a monthly comic to the Rhode Island publication Motif Magazine.

Powers is a graduate of the Geffen School of Drama Masters program and Purchase College Design and Technology theatre conservatory.

They were the recipient of the Jay and Rhonda Keene Scholarship in Costume Design and were recognized for their passion for and dedication to costume design and construction through the Opera Theatre of St. Louis Emerson Program.