Susan Marshall gives costume design workshop in ESAP

On October 20 and 21, costume designer and researcher Susan Marshall led a workshop on costume design as a source of performative creation with ESAP Theater and Art Direction students.
This was the first step in the creation of “Arraial de Quimeras,” which brings together ESAP, the Visões Úteis company, and Casa das Artes de São Roque, with support from the Criatório program, in a production to be presented in March 2026.

Susan Marshall is a costume designer, design historian, artist, and teacher based in Italy and the United Kingdom. She teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology at the Politecnico di Milano and at AFOL Moda Milan. She is a costume designer for the San Vittore Globe Theatre company and has explored the role of costume in performative creation. She recently published Insubordinate Costume by Routledge.