Artist

Dede M. Ayite (Costume Design) has designed sets and costumes for both theatre and film. Her past design credits include Five Guys Named Moe (Arena Stage; Cleveland Playhouse); brownsville song ( LCT3| Lincoln Center Theater); The Urban Retreat, Manahatta (Public Theater—Studio); Raisin in the Sun (California Shakespeare Theater); The Music Man in Concert (Two River Theater; New Jersey Performing Arts Center); Kurt Metzger’s White Precious (Comedy Central); Adoration of the Old Woman (Intar Theatre); Woyzeck (UMass Amherst: Department of Theater); Look Upon Our Lowliness (The Movement Theatre Company); Fox Shortcoms (Fox Network); COPPER Project (Improv Everywhere; BBC America); Last Laugh (soloNOVA Festival); Hollow Roots (Public Theatre; UTRF); Mary Stuart (New York University); Holding it Down (Harlem Stage); Vassa (Lee Strasburg Theatre and Film Institure); Illmatic (Urban Stages Theatre); The Piano Lesson (Yale Repertory Theatre); Smile Orange (Trinidad); American Schemes (SummerStage NYC). Dede has a BA in theatre and behavioral neuroscience from Lehigh University and an MFA in design from the Yale School of Drama.