Hilary Rosenfeld
Adjunct Instructor
Hilary Rosenfeld is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch Department of Theatre and Film Design. She has an extensive resume as a costume designer with a long list of independent films, studio productions, and television projects to her credit. As a costume designer, she is probably best known for the runaway hit “Dirty Dancing.” Some of her other film costume design credits include “Dessert Bloom”, “Dominick and Eugene”, “No Mercy”, “At Close Range”, “Eyewitness”, “Heartland”, “Triumph of the Spirit” and “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez”. “The Ballad” has been acclaimed the most accurate period western by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Her costume designs for theatre and opera have been seen on Broadway, Off Broadway, in regional theaters, at Juilliard and at the Public Theatre. At Juilliard she recently designed the costumes for “The Burning Fiery Furnace“. At the Public she enjoyed a rewarding collaboration with Elizabeth Swados that created the Broadway hit “Runaways”. Ms Rosenfeld’s career has also taken her into film and TV production design with such noteworthy Sundance Film Festival features as “Caught” and “Human Error”. Her other production design credits include “Downtown Express”, the PBS program “Rickover: The Father of Nuclear Power” and the award winning short “Unburden” for the Jacob Burns Film Center. Ms. Rosenfeld works with the Westchester based group Rehabilitation Through the Arts designing productions in the Bedford Hills Women's Correctional Facility. She was the Visual Consultant and Associate Producer on the soon to be released indy film "CRUSHD". Last year she team taught “Visualization for Production Designers” with Patrizia von Brandenstein at the School of Visual Arts.