Wanda Walden

Costume Designer

Wanda’s first production for Artists Rep dates back to 1989. Her recent costuming credits include An Octoroon and We are Proud to Present…. She also created a visual representation of these productions that was displayed in the lobby. Wanda’s other credits include Profile Theatre (The Secretaries, Fires in the Mirror), Oregon Children’s Theatre (And in This Corner: Cassius Clay), Portland Actors Conservatory (All My Sons, Marisol, Othello: The Remix), Controversy Theater (Sibling Rivalry), Portland Playhouse (How I Learned What I Learned), and Vanport Mosaic (Left Hook, Hercules didn’t Wade in the Water, American Summer Squash, Cottonwood in the Flood). Wanda is Resident Costumer for PassinArt Theatre, where her credits include Two Trains Running, Repulsing the Monkey, The Gospel of Lovingkindness, Black Nativity, Smoldering Fire, and Tommy J & Sally. Wanda has an art studio in Oakland, California and has been commissioned twice to do the “Worship in Pink” artwork for breast cancer awareness for the Susan C. Komen Foundation in Oregon and SW Washington. Wanda is the Artistic Director of Retrospect Productions, a theatrical modeling company. She is also a prolific writer of historical scripts, including Soul Shadows, Turn Back and Get your History, Blues me, Jazz me and Rock me in Rhythm, Harlem on my Mind, DeJavue, and Tribute to Maya.