L.A. CLEVENSON is a freelance costume designer and technician based in Brooklyn. She has worked in cities nation-wide including New York City, Houston, Los Angeles, Austin, and Kansas City with many reputable companies including The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Nike, Parsons-Meares, Stages Theatre (Houston), Zach Scott Theatre, The KC Rep, the Houston Grand Opera, among many others.

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Over her 15+ years of professional experience in the theatre community she has found she also loves numerous areas of technical costuming including fabric dying, painting, aging/distressing, masks creation, and most recently has fallen in love shoe up-cycling!

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L.A. was awarded Best Costume Design by the Houston Press and was featured as an up-and-coming designer in Texas Arts & Culture Magazine before returning to school and acquired her MFA in Costume Design & Technology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, which she completed in 2019.

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L.A. enjoys attending theatre, visiting museums and trying to find the best sushi spot in the city.