Download Press Bio Brian von Rueden has designed costumes for several repertory companies, and for his own operatic and theatrical productions. He began working as the costume shop supervisor for Northern Lights Playhouse in Hazelhurst, Wisconsin in 1998, and spent the following summer costuming the inaugural theatre season at the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. His unrealized designs for Pelléas et Melisande were awarded Honorable Mention at the American College Theatre Festival. Mr. von Rueden's designs for the operatic stage have earned consistent acclaim, in particular for two productions of Cimarosa's L'infedeltà fedele, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with Millennium Chamber Players, and Rorem's A Childhood Miracle at Roosevelt University. He has also costumed productions for the Eclectic English Theatre Company in Dresden, Germany, the Underground Theatre in Valparaiso, Indiana, and for the Three-Sided Players in Chicago, Illinois.