Karen Young (Costume Designer) is a New York based costume designer who has designed clothes for numerous dance, theater and video art projects. Her design work for performance has been seen on many international stages including Lincoln Center in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, the Herodeon, Athens and is included in the repertoires of the Martha Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Kyle Abraham, Brian Brooks, Ballet Basel, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Paul Taylor Dance Company, American Ballet Theater, Benjamin Millepied, Pam Tanowitz, Vanessa Walters, Elisa Monte, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, among many others. She designed the costumes of Third Rail Project’s highly acclaimed immersive shows “Then She Fell” and “The Grand Paradise” and and Wendy Whelan's shows "Restless Creature” and “Some of a Thousand Words”. Collaborations with contemporary visual artists include costume design for the video works of Eve Sussman, Matthew Barney's “Cremaster 5” and “Cremaster 1”, and David Michalek's large-scale outdoor video installations “Slow Dancing” and “Portraits in Dramatic Time” (Lincoln Center Festival, the Venice Biennale). karenyoungcostume.com
