Heddatron spans a wide array of time periods and locations, from modern-day Michigan to Victorian era Germany to a fantastical robot rainforest. To costume the show’s quirky mix of human and robot characters was a thrilling exercise of imagination for costume designer David Hyman, who sought to illuminate the emotional truth of each character while respecting the play’s unconventional voice. What was your biggest challenge in costuming each world? For all three worlds, I think the biggest and most exciting challenge was finding the level of specificity in choices that would support the zaniness of the script and of the characters without pushing the worlds into total caricature. It was important to me that the visual quirks and jokes exist in the details of each character’s costume rather than overt, bold gestures. How did you go about thinking about costuming an actor that isn’t human? I designed Aunt Juliebot, Bertabot and three of our ‘Critterbots’. After we sketched out the looks of our robots and compiled a list of desired robotic functions, we met with the engineers and began determining how the look of the robot and the physical needs for the robotic functions would work together. This was a totally new and exciting experience for me—usually I’m working with an actor’s body or blocking in mind, but in this case, I was working with machinery!