Bio

Kyle is a Manhattan-based costume and set designer.

His work can be seen in theatre, film, dance and performance.

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New York: La MaMa ETC, Carnegie Hall, Target Margin Theater, Eno River Players, The Brick, Theatre for a New City, Bank Street Theatre, HB Studio, Lenfest Center for the Arts, The TANK, Theatre Row, The Mark O’Donnell Theatre, Smith Street Stage.

Regionally: Forestburgh Playhouse (NY), Modern Connections, Celebrity Series of Boston at the Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge, MA), Yale Repertory Theatre (CT), Perseverance Theatre (AK), Virginia Repertory Theatre (VA), Yale Cabaret, Yale Summer Cabaret (CT), Cumberland County Playhouse (TN), State Street Theatre (PA), Shafer Alliance Laboratory Theatre at Shafer Street Playhouse (VA).

Academia: Tufts University, Amherst College (MA), Penn State University (Altoona), Columbia University, Elmira College, Manhattanville College, Waterwell Drama Program at the Professional Performing Arts School, Laguardia Community College + Sienna University for the American College Theatre Festival Region 1(NY).

Associate/Assistant: American Repertory Theatre (MA),The Bushwick Starr (Brooklyn, NY), Hartford Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre (CT), Pittsburgh Public Theatre (PA), Long Wharf Theatre (CT), R.W.S. Global (NY) Arena Stage (Washington, DC).

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photo by Doaa Ouf

Recipient:

Best Costume Design for The Nightman Commeth, and Venus in Fur, Third Place Best Costume Design for Little Shop of Horrors, the Leo Lerman Graduate Fellowship in Design, the Zelma Weisfeld Scholarship, the Bobby Chandler award, and the Richard and William Newdick Theatre Scholarship.

Kyle was a 2022-2023 Member of Yale Cabaret Advisory Board for Costume Design.

The 2023 Emerging Artist in Residence for Theatre Design at Penn State Altoona, adjunct instructor and resident costume designer.

The fall 2024 visiting adjunct in Theatre Design at Elmira College, costume and set designer.

He has been invited as a guest lecturer at University of Washington and Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Currently:

Costume Designer for the Dance Program at Tufts University under the creative direction of Jenny Oliver.

Interim Assistant Costume Manager/Costume Project Coordinator for American Repertory Theater’s production of Black Swan, under the Costume Manager, Muriel E. Mangual-Bennett. Recent production credits with A.R.T. include; the world premiere of the new musical Wonder, and the North American premiere of Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), currently playing on Broadway.

Upcoming:

Dear Evan Hansen (dir. Roque Berlangna), Hairspray (dir. Lauren Haughten Gillis), & Once (dir. Trey Compton) at Forestburgh Playhouse, NY.

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He is originally from Virginia, where he received a BFA in Theatre Costume Design and Technology (cum laude) from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Kyle holds an MFA in Design from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.