Marcia (Marcy) Froehlich

Marcy Froehlich has designed costumes for a wide range of productions in the United States and abroad. In Los Angeles, she has received seven Ovation Award nominations, most recently for Gulf View Drive at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, which won Best Play (Large Theater) in 2017. Her stage credits include productions at The Wallis, Opera Français, Long Beach Opera—where she designed Orpheus and Euridice in an Olympic swimming pool—Reprise, and a national tour of Camelot for McCoy Rigby, starring Michael York and later Lou Diamond Phillips. She spent 12 seasons designing musicals for Sacramento Music Circus, with highlights including The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables, Big River, The Pirates of Penzance, and Cats. She also designed for Central City Opera in collaboration with director Ken Cazan. Before moving to Los Angeles, Froehlich served as associate costume designer on Broadway’s touring productions of The Phantom of the Opera and as assistant designer on Robert Wilson’s international opera The Civil Wars in Rome, Tokyo, and Rotterdam.

Her film and television credits include Unbowed, Brake, The Unknown Cyclist, We Shall Remain (PBS), and the Miss America Pageant (designer since 2002). As assistant designer, she has worked on major projects such as The Master, Road to Perdition, American Beauty, For Your Consideration, and Geppetto, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Other work includes projects for Warner Bros. theme park in Germany, as well as commercials, documentaries, and industrials.

Froehlich’s artwork has been exhibited in Los Angeles at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. She co-authored Shopping LA: The Insiders’ Sourcebook for Film & Fashion and has contributed articles on costume history for the Costume Designers Guild magazine for more than eight years. She has served on both the board of directors and the board of trustees for the Costume Designers Guild.

She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan and has taught at SUNY New Paltz, Santa Barbara City College, UCLA, and UC Irvine, where she was a Unit-18 lecturer in 2015–16.

More about her work can be found at www.marcyfroehlich.com