Lionella Darling, Lio for short, is a designer of all accounts, with a specific focus in costume design. With a fiercely sharpened eye for historical design and a mind that works exclusively in the world of creativity, Lio has worked nationwide on a variety of different theatrical adventures. Trained in San Francisco, she will always find her forever home by the Bay, but is proud to call a number of cities her home now, including New York City, Washington D.C., Lancaster, and Philadelphia. With a decade of experience in a variety of specialities including costume construction, patterning, textile design, screen and fabric printing, tambour beading, digitizing, surface and machine embroidery,  corsetry, tutu and dance construction, weaving, wig and makeup design, millinery, shoe design, 3D printing, laser engraving, and large-scale production design, there is no project that is too large or too small for her creative mind to tackle with efficacy and a numerous of belly-aching laughs. 
 
"You're only as strong as your backup plan."
- Lionella