ASA BENALLY

There is a new restaurant in the old site of the Edison cafe. When I first came to NYC I remember this was the best place to get a quick...

Stephen Sondheim recently passed away. Across social media theater folk have been posting how much his work influenced them. One of my...

It must be nearing Xmas time in The city! I’m obsessed with how the windows are 3d collages.

I am currently in Canada at the Stratford Festival working on a production of The Rez Sisters. It’s been a learning curve designing a...

Back in 2010 it was a bleak winter, the recession took hold of NYC and I was living up in the upper west side, my little Wes Anderson...

This is from a page in my notebook from my set design class while I was at Yale. I believe the assignment was The Marriage of Figaro. I...

What is so fascinating about this image is that we see a progression of how modernity is impacting lives of native nations. I’m not sure...

I was commissioned to create a costume for a zoom production. The prompt was to make a look for a Native futurism rendition for The ghost...

I‘ve had some time on my hands so I took a crack at making a stuffed unicorn! I found a pattern on Etsy and went to town. Now I have...

as a designer most of my life is spent researching images, extracting storytelling from people in photographs and paintings. This...

Covid-19 has changed the theater and fashion world so much. There is a lot of discussion about how we will go forward in creating...

The thought I had when comparing these two paintings was about nostalgia. The painting on the left is from about the 1780’s, the one on...

There is a lot of history between the indigenous and black communities. I am a humble costume designer, my life is about images and...

The game Animal Crossing has made another comeback during these COVID-Times. What has peaked my interest has been the fashion/costume...

So much about my process is about discovery as well as creativity. In the past few years I’ve started to see myself less as a “Costume...