Kyle is a Manhattan-based costume and set designer.

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

His work has been seen at New York City’s; La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Carnegie Hall, Target Margin Theater, 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, Professional Performing Arts School.

Regionally: Celebrity Series of Boston @ the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge (MA), Yale Repertory Theatre (CT), Perseverance Theatre (AK), Virginia Repertory Theatre (VA), Forestburgh Playhouse (NY), Cumberland County Playhouse (TN), State Street Theatre (PA), Yale Cabaret, Yale Summer Cabaret (CT), Shafer Alliance Laboratory Theatre @Shafer Street Playhouse (VA), Tufts University (MA), Reid Castle @ Manhattanville College, Elmira College (NY), Amherst College (MA), Penn State Altoona (PA), New Players Co. (NJ).

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

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 the 2022-2023 Yale Cabaret Advisory Board Member for Costume.

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.

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

Currently:

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

Costume Project Coordinator for American Repertory Theater’s production of Black Swan, under 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.

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.

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