About Me

Meg Powers is a costume designer and inter-disciplinary artist whose practice includes filmmaking, puppetry, and sequential art. Their philosophy is driven by the humanity of performers, an empathetic approach to character analysis that emphasizes nuance, an exploration of history through subculture, and the desire to empower audiences across a broad spectrum of experience through catharsis, fun, and fantasy.

Powers is also a skilled craftsperson and has built pieces for opera, film, television, Broadway, and beyond.

Recent design credits of note include Boat Day (upcoming film, Cusp of Rebirth Productions, 2024), 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).

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

They are a recipient of the 2023-2024 1/52 Project award. Other awards include the Jay and Rhonda Keene Scholarship in Costume Design and recognition for their dedication to costume design and construction through the Opera Theatre of St. Louis Emerson Program.