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Olga Maslova is a Ukrainian-born American designer and dramaturg. She was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and earned a BFA in Directing from the Kharkiv Academy of Culture. After graduating, she hitchhiked through the post-USSR art and theatre scene in Russia and Ukraine before moving to the United States.
Since then, Olga has designed costumes and sets for leading directors and choreographers across the United States, South America, and Europe, including Bill T. Jones and the Arnie Zane Company, Dan Sullivan, Christopher Bayes, Daniel Helfgot, Ron Daniels, and Pedro Salazar. Her work has been described by The New York Times as "stylish," by The Boston Globe as "beautiful," by Opera News as "spectacular," and by Backstage as "authentic," with her designs ranging from "eye-popping" to "madly inventive."
Recent highlights include costume designs for Le Nozze di Figaro (2022) and Tosca (2021) at Teatro Mayor in Bogotá, Colombia; Peter Grimes (2022) at the famed Amazonas Theatre in Manaus, Brazil; Candinho (2023) and Black Square (2024) at Tryon Festival Theatre in Urbana, Illinois; Everest and Aleko for Chicago Opera Theatre at the Harris Theatre (2019); and Dido and Aeneas and Florencia en el Amazonas at Teatro Colón in Bogotá. Her libretto and designs for Last Day of the Eternal City, an oratorio for reader, choir, and orchestra, premiered in Moscow in 2021.
Olga is a 2025 MacDowell Fellow and a 2021–2022 Fulbright Scholar. She is an Associate Professor of Costume Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a BFA with honors in Directing from the State Academy of Culture (Kharkiv, Ukraine), an MFA in Dramaturgy from Stony Brook University, and an MFA in Costume and Set Design from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.