ACCOLADES
PRESS (selected)
​- Bulrusher, at McCarter Theatre and Berkeley Rep
"Valerie St. Pierre Smith’s costumes manage the near-impossible task of being period-specific and attractive while still looking like clothing these smalltown denizens might actually own."
- Jim Munson, Broadway World, San Francisco
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- Pilobolus Dance Theatre, various
​Noctuary
​Awaken Heart
​The Ballad
​Big Five Oh! at The Joyce, New York.
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- Antebellum at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
"The eye-popping gown that Valerie St. Pierre Smith designs for Sarah's night out is an epic event in itself."
- Peter Marks, The Washington Post
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"Valerie St. Pierre Smith's costumes, and particularly Sarah's preposterous dress, are great successes."
- Tim Treanor, DC Theatre Scene
- Civilization: All You Can Eat at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
"The underlying theme is greed. That’s where the pigs come in...Costume designer, Valerie St. Pierre Smith, the real star here, has dressed Civilization’s pigs in wonderful fat suits with black, trotter-like boxing gloves..."
- Susan Davidson, Curtain Up
HONORS, AWARDS, AND AFFILIATIONS (selected)
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International Indigenous Fashions Council- founding member
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Indigenous Haute Couture- Digital Embellishment Artist Residency, selected designer; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada
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Fulbright Scholar Program, finalist; Scotland Distinguished Scholar Award in Art and Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
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Amplify Arts Alternate Currents Working Group
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Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region V Commendation for Achievement in Costume Design, The Clearing
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Design Wing Fellow, Great Plains Theatre Conference
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The Indigenous Fashion Collective
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ImagineNATIVE
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United Scenic Artists 829
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Costume Society of America
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United States Institute for Theatre Technology
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Invited Collaborator, Shades of Noir Creatives of Color database, London, England