John Nasca

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DIE! MOMMIE, DIE!
            "Costume designer John Nasca's over-the-top 60s fashions are a delight"
                      Albert Williams, Chicago Reader

            "Cerda is aided and abetted by costume designer John Nasca, who provides him a parade

             of simultaneously gorgeous and hideous outfits."
                      Scott C. Morgan, Windy City Times

            "Period pretty costumes."
                      Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Free Press

           "Fabulous 1960's costumes."
                      Colin Douglas, Center Stage

           "John Nasca's costume design adds to the campriffic authenticity and fun. This show looks as

great as it plays."
Venus Zarris, Gay Chicago Magazine

PHANTOM-PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATER

“The ensemble dances and sings effectively in John Nasca’s vivid period perfect costumes.”

Tom Williams, Chicago Critic.com

“John Nasca's costuming, which beautifully evokes the turn-of-the-20th-century period in France”

Daily Southtown Suburban Newspaper

“The costumes by John Nasca are as stunning as you'd expect to see in the high society of late-19th century Paris”

Chicago by John Olson

MOON OVER BUFFALO

“sepia tone production has some nice 1950’s detail, the costumes are especially fine”

Chicago Reader

VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM-Royal George Theater & Theatre Building Chicago

“Fabulous period costumes, created with a tongue in chic eye for hilarity, truly breathtaking” “costumes are wonderfully ingenious”

Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

“wonderfully elaborate and screamingly funny costume designs”

“Best of all are John Nasca’s costumes: these rich yet tacky designs, ranging from the garish colors of Sodom, to the black and white sleekness of 20’s Hollywood (with West in a truly stunning long trained gown), are a perfect blend of absurdity and stylishness.”

Albert Williams, Chicago Sun-Times

“eye-popping costumes”

Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Tribune

“fabulous period costumes, created with a tongue in chic eye for hilarity.” “truly breathtaking gowns.”

Rick Karlin, Gay Chicago

“styles so neatly pegged by costume designer”

Anthony Adler, Chicago Reader

“drop dead finery!”

Lawrence Bommer, Windy City Times

“costumes evoke the clownish fashions of the era”

Tom Valeo, Daily Herald

“the costume designers mod fashion show go the biggest laughs”

Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune

“loud costumes left the audience roaring”

Liz Mather, Art & Performance magazine

“The avalanche of John Nasca’s delicious costumes and wigs are fresh and memorable as ever, a virtual glittering kaleidoscope of glitz and glamour. Like Cecil B. DeMillie’s The Ten Commandments, Vampire Lesbians is a costume epic.

Diane Levy Walis, Nightlilnes

THE WOMEN-Palladium Productions

“Incredible designed wardrobe, a dazzling procession of 1947 evening wear, that not only includes a fashion show but becomes one two and a half hour tour-de-force”

Lawrence Bommer, Windy City Times

“knockout costumes (75 of them), eye-catching, colorful costumes”

Fred Nuccio, Learner Newspapers

“elaborate and dazzling costuming”

J. Linn Allen, Chicago Reader

“75 of the most beautifully designed costumes I’ve ever seen. The most special accolade however, goes to the costume designer, John Nasca who showers us with evening gowns, skimpy exercise outfits, swim ware, tailored clothing, lingerie and yes, even a long white flowing wedding dress. The audience ooed and aahed with each costume.”

Ellen Cannon, WBEZ Saturday Edition

“costumes are to die for and very appropriate for the characters and period”

Rick Karlin, Gay Chicago

ON THE WATERFRONT, AMERICAN BLUES THEATER

“period perfect costumes”

Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Tribune

”And even the costumes contribute to the action that takes place between union goons who wear suits and camel hair coats against the working stiffs in wool caps, plaid shirts and dirty boots.”

Betty Mohr, Correspondent

RIGOLETTO-Circle Theater

“Words escape me in trying to describe his expertise in the art of costuming. The costumes alone are worth their own show”

Jackie Schulz, The Oak Leaves

THE LITTLE FOXES-The Village Players

“John Nasca’s vivacious gowns are truly stunning”

Doug Deuchler, The Oak Park Journal

ANYONE CAN WHITSLE-Pegasus Players

“Costumes add a hip futuristic flavor”

Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

“iridescent, eye-popping outfits”

Rick Karlin, Gay Chicago

“the sets are effectively complemented by the high tech costumes”

Albert Williams, Chicago Reader

ANY BONDS TODAY-The Village Players

“Much of the authentic glamour and class of this production lies in the impressive work of John Nasca, who created all the many different period costumes”

Doug Deuchler, The Oak Park Journal

GREAT WHITE HOPE-Pegasus Players

“One of the best Designers in Chicago’s off-Loop scene”

Rick Karlin-Gay Chicago

TINTYPES-THE SET GOURMET THEATRE

“sumptuous, colorful period gowns and suits virtually shimmer”

John W. Schmid, Gay Chicago

GUYS AND DOLLS, THE VILLAGE PLAYERS

“costumes are appropriately, simultaneously gaudy and classy”

Doug Deuchler, The Oak Park Journal

THE MIRACLE WORKER, CIRCLE THEATER

“charming period costumes capture the muted elegance of the Late Victorian South.”

Doug Deuchler, The Oak Park Journal