ÁSTA BENNIE HOSTETTER (Costume Designer) is from Washington Heights. She designed John (Signature Theater) by Annie Baker for which she and the team won an Obie for Collaboration. Recent work includes: The Coast Starlight (Lincoln Center), The Bandaged Place (Roundabout Underground), Taming of the Shrew (Old Globe) with Shana Cooper, and Dom Juan (Bard Summerscape) adapted by Ashley Tata. Favorite world premieres include: Usual Girls (Roundabout Underground), Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizon), The Wolves (Lincoln Center). She is a member of The Mad Ones: Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova) and Miles for Mary (Bushwick Starr, Playwrights Horizon). She is also a member of Target Margin Theater: Reread Another. She is a founding member of minor theater and has designed Grimly Handsome, Nomads, The Terrifying, Pathetic. In September 2023 she directed Marie It’s Time, minor theater’s punk take on Woyzeck, at Here Arts Center.
