Sanja Manakoski is a Chicago-based costume designer. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Costume and Fashion Design from the University of Applied Arts and Design in Belgrade, and her Master of Fine Arts in Stage Design from Northwestern University. Before relocating to Chicago, Sanja worked on several theatre and movie productions in Europe such as November Man, In Secret, Chernobyl Diaries, Panama. She is one of the creators of the fashion label KLASA which received numerous awards on the fashion runaway in Belgrade. Sanja’s costume design for the musical Hair received the ULUPUDS award for Outstanding Costume Design, and were exhibited in the Prague Quadrennial 2015. Sanja teaches costume and make-up design at Northwestern University . Previous designs include Quixote on the Conquest of Self as directed by Claudio Valdes Curi at Writers Theatre; White, as directed by Tasia Jones; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as directed by Matt Hawkins; Middletown as directed by Sonny Das; The Great Gatsby, as directed by Michael Cotey; Fuente Ovejuna, as directed by Susan Bowen; and Danceworks 2017, choreographed by Onye Ozuzu, at Northwestern University.
More information about Sanja at www.sanjamanakoski.com