Ray Gabica

Bio

Ray is a Full Professor and Head of Costume Design at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, and holds an undergraduate degree in Education (Theatre, French and Mathematics), an M.F.A in Costume, Make-Up and Puppetry Design from Michigan State University. Ray designs from four to six productions a year. Recent designs include the mainstage productions of 1776, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Marat/Sade, Tommy, Rashomon, Our Country's Good, Zorro, and Much Ado About Nothing, and the Summer Music Theatre productions of Meet Me in St Louis, Evita, and The Little Shop of Horrors, to name only a few of the 54 Summer Music Theatre, 70-plus Mainstage and 15-plus Regional Tours he has designed for Western Illinois University. While designing four to six productions a year at Western, he has also directed within the Studio Theatre Season. the Regional Children's Tour (Matthew's Meadow, The Lion and the Mouse, The Tree House, A Tribute to Shel, Free to Be…You and Me, The Stories of the Quilter) and the WIU Mainstage Theatre Season (Equus, Titanic, Harold and Maude and Blood Brothers), and the musical, The Quilt for Dolphinback Theatre in Chicago and Eastern Standard Time for Fade to Black Productions in Chicago. Ray still considers having successfully completed the 630 plus miles of each AIDS RIDES (6 DAY) from Minneapolis to Chicago on his bike, five times, as his most significant feat!