Kyle is a costume and set designer, based in Queens, NY. He designs for theatre, dance, performance pieces, opera, and short film. He was the 2022-2023 Yale Cabaret Advisory Board Member for Costume, and the 2023 Emerging Artist in Residence for Theatre Design at Penn State Altoona, adjunct instructor and resident costume designer. He is the resident costume designer for Manhattanville College, NY.
Upcoming: Gutbelly @ Schapiro Studios NY, The Devil You Don’t (Short).
This summer: The Prom, Beautiful: The Carol King Musical, and Rock of Ages @Forestburgh Playhouse.
His work has been seen at New York City’s; Theatre for a New City, The Brick, Bank Street Theatre @HB Studio, Lenfest Center for the Arts, THE TANK, Theatre Row, Professional Performing Arts School, Urban Stages, and Staten Island Shakespeare Theatre.
Regionally: Yale Repertory Theatre, Perseverance Theatre, Virginia Repertory Theatre, Cumberland County Playhouse, State Street Theatre, Yale Cabaret, Yale Summer Cabaret, Shafer Alliance Laboratory Theatre @Shafer Street Playhouse, Reid Castle @ Manhattanville College, Amherst College, Penn State Altoona.
Collaborators include: Augustine Lorrie Alexandrite, Matthew Elijah Webb, Juh-anna Rogers, James Bundy, Vinita Sud Belani, Melody Erfani, Alexandra Maurice, Alexis Woodard, Rebeca Robles, KT Huckabee, Dr. Bonnie Cutsforth-Huber, Sammy Zeisel, James Taylor, Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel, Tyler Cruz, Ben Holbrook, Nate Weida, Ashley Thomas, Benjamin Viertel, Bari Robinson, Kikau Alvaro, Kemar Jewel, Phuong Nguyen, Nia Safarr Banks, Hannah Chalman, KIMKIM, Caspian rabaia, Neno Russell, Yale Cabaret.
In 2019, his designs for Little Shop of Horrors were juried by decorated costume designer Linda Cho, who awarded him third place in the Southeastern Theatre Conference Design Competition. That same year he won the SALTy Dog Award, Best Costume Design, for Venus in Fur. In 2017, he received the same award, making his debut as costume designer for The Nightman Commeth (Shafer Street Theatre). He is a recipient of the Leo Lerman Graduate Fellowship in Design, the Zelma Weisfeld Scholarship, the Bobby Chandler award, and the Richard and William Newdick Theatre Scholarship.
Kyle is originally from Richmond, Virginia. He received his BFA in Theatre Costume Design and Technology (cum laude) from Virginia Commonwealth University and his MFA in Design from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.
