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Margaret E. Weedon is a Costume Designer and Costume Construction professional for the past 30 years. She teaches Intro to Design and Intro to Technical Theatre/Theatre II at CUA. She has built costumes for Principal Women at The Metropolitan Opera, and for Broadway at Carelli Costumes and JKNY in New York City. She began her experience at Mary Washington College as a student of Rosemary Ingham, co-author of The Costume Technician’s Handbook and The Costume Designer’s Handbook.
As a Costume Designer her credits include Georama (World Premiere), Comedy of Errors at the St. Louis Repertory Theatre (St. Louis Award for Outstanding Costume Design); Matilda: The Musical at TheatreSquared; Hannah and Martin, Einstein's Gift and Widower's Houses at Epic Theatre Ensemble; Hold These Truths at The Guthrie Theater, Barrington Stage Company, TheaterWorks Silicon Valley and PlayMakers Repertory Company; The Little Prince at Hang-a-Tale Productions; Resident Designer at Great River Shakespeare Festival : As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, The Glass Menagerie, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, 1Henry IV, Macbeth, The Tempest and King Lear; Driving Miss Daisy, Forever Plaid, Always....Patsy Cline, and Around the World in 80 Days (World Premiere) at the Utah Shakespearean Festival; Man of La Mancha at Union County Arts Center; Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and The Taming of the Shrew at Baltimore Shakespeare Festival; Jesus Christ Superstar, The Rivals, Freaky Friday, A Winter’s Tale, and A Doll's House at The Catholic University of America.
Broadway construction credits include Six, Spamalot, Jersey Boys, Mama Mia, Drowsy Chaperone, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Something’s Rotten, Phantom of the Opera, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Titanic, Alladin, Newsies, among many others. She has built costumes for Cher, Mr. Noodle and Sigourney Weaver.
Movie and film construction credits include Mirror Mirror, Dickinson, Elf, and Greatest Showman to name a few.
She holds an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a BA from Mary Washington College.