Maria is a costume designer based in New York and Chicago. After spending several formative years as a knit and sweater designer in the fashion industry, Maria set her creative sights on costumes for Film, Television, Theater and Commercials.
Her most recent work includes feature film Somewhere Quiet which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2023 and the Netflix streaming hit, A24’s Mo (2022 Peabody Awards, 2022 Television Academy Honors, 2022 Gotham Awards Best Breakthrough Series, and NY Times 50 Best to Watch).
Prior work includes the hit series It’s Bruno! Emmy Nominated in 2019 for Outstanding Short Form Comedy Series, also on Netflix.
Other design work: Jordan Galland’s cult film hit Ava’s Possessions, film festival favorites include: Joel Cody’s Pike County set in rural Kentucky amid the opioid crisis, and Justin Ambrosino’s First Samurai in New York, a period drama set in 1890 that follows a young Japanese Samurai immigrant as she navigates a fledgling New York City, which won the “Best Costume Design” award in Las Vegas 2018, and placement in the “Fashion on Film Festival” in Paris, France.
Maria has worked in the costume departments of many film and television series including: Showtime’s The Chi, FX’s American Horror Story, Halston on Netflix, NBC’s The Calling, HBO’s The Plot Against America, Apple TV’s Dickinson, ABC’s The Family, and Empire on Fox.
Commercial clients include TD Ameritrade, Citibank, Lean Cuisine, Xfinity, DirectTV, Mattel, Fisher Price and many more.
A graduate of Parsons School of Design and Yale School of Drama, Maria is based in New York and divides her time with family and work in Chicago.
Maria loves all things knitting, quilting, needleworking, lacey, weaving, and hand made wonderful.
She is usually drawing.
