Micaela Hecht is a New York based Costume Designer for stage and screen. She is passionate about storytelling and is particularly interested in stories that center women and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. She knows that telling these stories is important, now more than ever. Her work aims to add color, hope, and wonder to the world by grounding her designs in the beautifully diverse and creative people she interacts with everyday.
Recent projects include: Flex, Fifth of July (NYU Tisch Graduate Acting); Crossing Over, Get It At The Top, A Pigeon Story, Shorebirds (Short Films). She has a BA in Theatre with a Costume Design concentration from Barnard College, an AA in Theatre Arts from MiraCosta College in California and, most recently, she earned her MFA in Design for Stage and Film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Selected Work
Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson. Directed by Ian Belknap. Photo by Ella Bromblin.
Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson. Digital renderings for the second look in Act 1.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Collage of The White Witch.
Fantasy Met Gala: Celestial Bodies, dress designed for India Amarteifio inspired by the Pinwheel Galaxy.
Flex by Candrice Jones. Directed by Carl Cofield. Photo by Ella Bromblin.
Flex by Candrice Jones. Directed by Carl Cofield. Photo by Ella Bromblin.
A Pigeon Story, short film written and directed by Arina Vala.
Rendering of Scrappy for Crossing Over, short film directed by Rosanne Limoncelli and Ariana Taveras.
alamort' dance choreographed by Genevieve Antonetty and Mikey Lerma.
hiraeth' dance choreographed by Mikee Ellis and Sabrina Santoro
The Misanthrope by Molière. Rendering of Célimène in her second look.
Fahrenheit 451 screenplay by Frank Darabont. Guy Montag in his firefighter uniform.