Amber Stepanik

Costume Manager

Amber Stepanik earned her MFA in Theatre from the University of Houston where she focused on Costume Design and Technology and is a graduate of Trinity University where she studied theatre design and performance, was a member of the Trinity University Players, and costume shop foreman.  She is an adjunct professor of theater at Lone Star College Montgomery, and has worked as a lecturer at Sam Houston State University and DeSales University in PA.

Amber is a costume designer, technician, and director in the greater Houston area and has designed costumes for over 80 productions.  She has worked as draper for Houston Shakespeare Festival since 2022 in addition to over 20 productions.  She is the winner of the 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023 Broadway World Houston award for Best Costume Design for Three Musketeers, Into the Woods, Gypsy, Shakespeare in Hollywood, and Book of Will.  In 2014 and 2016 she was a Houston Press Theatre Awards finalist in Costume Design for Beaux Stratagem and 13 Rue De L’ Amour.  She is also a four-time winner of the Kennedy Center Collage Theatre Festival Award for excellence in costume design for The Student Body, The Shape of Things, Green Day’s American Idiot, and The SpongeBob Musical.  In 2023 she received the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival National Awards Committee Commendation for Distinguished Achievement in Costume Design for Gruesome Playground Injuries. 

Amber is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and is passionate about her Native American culture. She is a two-time presenter at USITT in Baltimore and St. Louis and exhibited her dance regalia while demonstrating beading techniques during the sessions: Native American Regalia: History, Examples, and Techniques.