Professor Maggie Morgan with her UC Davis costume design students photo:Durell
COURSES TAUGHT - selected list (many of these taught live & remotely)
Costume Design in the Movies
Design on Screen: The Art of Costume Design
Survey of Entertainment Design from Greeks to Rock 'n' Roll
Costume Design for Theatre
Advanced Costume Design for Theatre
Costume Design for Film
Production Lab “Behind the Scenes” – asynchronous remote course
Costume Design and Costuming for Film and Television
SEMINARS IN THEATRICAL DESIGN:
Six-course MFA design curriculum:
Ancient Worlds – Early 17th Century, Mid 17th Century to 1900,
The 20th Century, Contemporary Concepts, Advanced Concepts, Thesis
MFA Costume Design seminar
Visual Language for Performance
Digital Costume Design and Rendering
The Design Portfolio and Website Development
Performance Design Studio: Techniques and Media
MENTORING
Individuals - senior honors design projects, professional internships
Student designers and crewmembers on productions and student films
Film Festival advisor - UCD Student Film Fest
NEWS! Maggie announces she is pleased to be teaching at OLLI!
COSTUME DESIGN IN THE MOVIES April 2026
UC Berkeley OLLI - Thursdays in April - Offered Live & Remotely
Interview with Maggie Morgan - The Secret Language of Costume Design
Instructor Bio 2026
Maggie Morgan has been a costume designer for stage and screen for over thirty years. She was on the faculty at University of California, Davis for 20 years, where she taught costume design for stage and screen. She has also taught at FIDM Los Angeles, Columbia College of Chicago-Semester in LA Program, and University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Her design work includes two hundred productions spanning Broadway, regional theatre, film, television, dance, opera, and digital media. She worked as an Assistant Costume Designer on many feature films, including Men in Black, Apollo 13, A Bronx Tale, Casino, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Wag the Dog, and Mona Lisa Smile.
She brings to the classroom this in-depth knowledge of the process of designing costumes for theatre and film. Her teaching viewpoint starts from that experience as a designer, always including the contributions of the entire creative team. The history and scholarship of the art of performance design and its practitioners give additional insight and context to the topic.
She has an MFA in Stage Design from Yale University, School of Drama, and a BA in Dramatic Art from UC Davis. Member of the Costume Designers Guild, local 892, and United Scenic Artists, local 829 - the professional unions for designers in theatre, television, and film.
Visit her YouTube channel @maggiemorgan836 to view her curated video playlists about the art of design.