Oona Natesan

MFA COSTUME DESIGN, 2021

A multidisciplinary designer with experience in costume and digital design, Oona Natesan has worked steadily since graduating from CMU with an MFA in Costume Design in 2021. Before coming to CMU, Oona was based in India where she worked as an Assistant designer to Mr. Manish Malhotra, the eclectic designer associated with international couture and high street fashion and the Mumbai film industry, popularly called Bollywood.

Since graduation, Oona has worked on several theatre and film productions, including doing associate design work on “Monsoon Wedding: The Musical” at St. Ann’s Warehouse in NYC, assistant costume design at the Old Globe Theatre, and costume design work at St. Louis Rep, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Chester Theatre Company in Massachusetts and more.