Maria Bissex

Costumer designer Maria V. Bissex is delighted to join the Staunton Music Festival for the first time on this production of Handel’s Orlando. Maria is the owner of MVB Costumes based in McLean, VA, and is also an educator, musician, avid reader, cyclist, and all-around Renaissance woman. Maria has done costume work for Folger Shakespeare Theatre, IN Series, Mosaic Theater Company, NextStop Theatre, Studio Theatre, The Theatre Lab, Washington Stage Guild, as well as schools and summer camps in Washington, DC, Fairfax County, VA, and Montgomery County, MD. One of her favorite theatrical projects was directing an original adaptation of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.