Santo Loquasto is a designer for dance, theatre and film. He began designing costumes for legendary New York theatre producer Joseph Papp in the early 1970s. He has collaborated with choreographer James Kudelka on various works, including Alliances for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, The Heart of the Matter for Joffrey Ballet and The Comfort Zone and The End for San Francisco Ballet. For the National Ballet of Canada they created Pastorale, The Actress, The Awakening, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Firebird and An Italian Straw Hat. Loquasto also designed A Touch of the Poet, Three Days of Rain, Shining City and Twyla Tharp’s The Times They Are A-Changing, all of which appeared on Broadway.