2023-24 New Faculty

Sydney Maresca is theater designer and dress historian with a strong background in clothing construction and textile crafts.  Her design work has been seen on Broadway, cable television, and around the world.  Notable projects include the upcoming Broadway premiere of The Cottage directed by Jason Alexander, the Broadway premiere and North American Tour of The Lighting Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, the Broadway and London premieres of the award-winning play Hand to God, and Real Enemies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival.  Her research work is focused on clothing and textiles in the early American northeast that speak to indigenous and immigrant encounters, craft, labor, and women’s roles in their communities.
 
Prior to joining Williams, Sydney has held full-time faculty positions at New York University and Marymount Manhattan College.  She has worked with students both as an educator and as a designer at a number of colleges and universities including Pace, Princeton, NYU, The New School, Sarah Lawrence, Montclair State University, Western Connecticut State University, Juilliard, and the Curtis Institute.