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Professor Kendra Johnson is an assistant professor of theatre specializing in costume design, costume technology, and stage makeup. She also teaches special topics in costume design and African-American Theatre.
Prof. Johnson’s professional credits include Highland Repertory Theatre, NC Stage Company, and Tanglewood Children’s Theatre. She has served as costume designer for over 20 university productions, among them, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Marat/Sade, Equus, Macbeth, Master Harold…and the Boys, and Miss Julie.
Prof. Johnson has a strong interest in historical clothing. Currently she is researching slave dress in South Carolina. At the Costume Society of America regional meeting in 2004 she presented a paper entitled, Shirt-tail Fellows: Class Identification Through Clothing Within the Slave Communities of South Carolina. She recently received a research grant from Clemson University’s College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities to continue her research on slave costuming.
Prof. Johnson won several design awards as a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and received her degree in 1994. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from James Madison University. She is a member of the Costume Society of America and the Black Theatre Network.
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