Nancy Hills

Caine College of the Arts

Theatre Arts

Nancy Hills was born in a Studebaker in San Mateo, California. She is head of Theatre Costume Design at USU. Nancy is a member of the Costume Society of America, the Costume Society of Great Britain and the U.S. Institute of Theatre Technology. Some of her favorite designs include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pride and Prejudice, Amadeus, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Miser, Enchanted April and Our Country’s Good. Her designs for The Miser and Dangerous Liaisons were displayed at the International Prague Quadrennial. She has also designed at the Artist Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon including Next to Normal, And So It Goes, The Playboy of the Western World and Blithe Spirit. She designed the premiere of Streetlight Woodpecker at The Salt Lake Acting Company in February 2016. In 2013 she received the Janet Arnold Award from the Society of Antiquaries in London that funded the development of a collection of patterns taken from two historic clothing collections in the UK. Nancy can be found on YouTube giving a TEDX Talk on the impact of WWII on clothing called Make Do and Mend. She is the mother of twin sons Douglas and Tristan.