Who I am…
Andrea Varga is an Associate Professor of Theatre Design, a member of the Honors Faculty, and a Sustainability Faculty Fellow at SUNY New Paltz located in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York.
She holds an MFA in Costume Design from Florida State University, and undergraduate degrees in History and Theatre from Utah State University. For over 25 years she has worked as a costume designer and assistant designer on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in television and academia. Andrea previously taught at Montclair State University and FIT.
As an educator and artist, Andrea works to incorporate sustainability education and practice into her craft, courses, lectures, and leadership on campus and in her community. She teaches sustainability courses in the Honors Program at New Paltz, including Ethical Fashion and Intro to Sustainability, as well as adult continuing education classes for The Studios of Key West in Florida. Her work is informed by years of working with textiles, from growing up on a farm in a conservation-minded and activist household in Utah, to working in the fashion and theatre industries.
Andrea firmly believes that change can be made by individuals, and that optimism is the way forward.