Join us for a unique pre-show event that explores fashion of the 20s with a twist!

Six UMass Dartmouth students have created gender-bending costumes inspired by characters in The Great Gatsby. Check out their creations and meet the young designers:

Ruby Louro - Junior
Monika Kristjánsdóttir - Junior
Emma Gardner - Sophomore
Tatiana Lopes - Sophomore
Lindsey Mannion - Junior
Emmanuel Granados - Sophomore

All students are in Professor Sydney Hawes’ fashion design class at UMD. Professor Hawes is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology and won the 2023 Broadway World Boston award for Best Costume Design of a Play or Musical for the costumes she created as part of New Bedford Festival Theatre’s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat! Her students were the designers behind many of the dresses at the YWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts’s Red Dress Event, raising awareness about heart disease in women.

Free, no registration or ticket required. 6-6:45PM in the lobby outside the theater at UMass Dartmouth. The mainstage presentation of The Great Gatsby begins at 7PM.