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Steven Stines
As a theatrical costume designer, Steven Stines has specialized in musical theatre and dance. He has designed costumes for Sheryl Lee Ralph, Marlo Thomas, Olympic medal skater Linda Fratianne and a multitude of moonlighting Rockettes, and has worked in New York as resident designer for 29th Street Repertory and Spectrum Stage, and in a number of regional theatres. He has costumed performers on cruise ships and at theme parks and designed the The Music City Holiday Spectacular in Nashville. He has also designed numerous industrials and events, with clients including the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Mazda, Rite-Aid, Miller-Coors, the Pencil Awards, Prudential Real Estate and the Tournament of Roses. His work has extended to spectacles and events, and he has costumed ‘neo-burlesque’ performers in New Orleans and Las Vegas. Steven worked as an assistant designer and sketch artist for The Cosby Show, and has been a sketch artist for television commercials and films. As an assistant designer, he has worked with designers Carrie F. Robbins, Sarah Lemire and Stephen Hendrickson, and with Lauren Bacall, Chita Rivera and Mikhail Baryshnikov. His design work has been featured at FAO Schwartz, the legendary toy store on Fifth Avenue, and at numerous trade shows. He was also an assistant wardrobe designer for the renovation of the Rainbow Room, a complex of restaurants and nightclubs atop Rockefeller Center. Steven has illustrated dozens of book covers for St. Martins Press, Little-Brown, Time-Life Books and other publishers. His artwork has appeared countless times in a variety of magazines and in the newspapers The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times. He has created characters for digital animation and for an animated television series, Supertranz. He has designed ads and interior decor for nightclubs in New York, and many posters, ads and promotional items for theatre and dance, including for Musical Writers Playground in New York, the Louisville Ballet, Charlotte Ballet and Alabama Shakespeare and for HBO Home Video. As an illustrator, he has created hundreds of greeting cards, including every conceivable variation of Santa Claus, as well as dozens of international postage stamps. Steven has taught costume design, costume history and rendering at the University of Florida, Tulane University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and holds an MFA in design from New York University.